 The word evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact the truth of which is submitted to investigation is established or disproved.  The Southeastern Reporter - Side 4011888Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Bouvier - 1882 - 812 sider
...whatever is lawfully 1 3 Sh.irswood, Blnckst. Comm. 367. exhibited to a court and jury, by which any matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.2 This word, and the words proof, testimony, and witness are sometimes used indifferently,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1883 - 836 sider
...Evidence defined. Greenleaf (1 Greenl. Ev. § 1) defines as follows: "Evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...investigation, is established or disproved." This definition apparently includes too much; ns pointed out by Bentham, evidence is all legal means, exclusive... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - 880 sider
...the jury in that character. " The word evidence," as said by Mr. Grcenleaf, "in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." 1 Greenl. Ev., § 1; 1 Stark Ev. 10; 1 Phil. Ev. 1. Such statement 'is subject, in our opinion, at... | |
 | 1898 - 1054 sider
...meets with some support from highly trustworthy sources. "The word 'evidence,' In legal acceptation, Includes all the means by which any alleged matter...Indifferently, as synonymous with each other; but the latter Is applied, by the most accurate logicians, to the effect of the evidence, and not to the medium... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1887 - 784 sider
...evidence and proof. The former, in legal acceptation, includes the means by which any alleged mutter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. The latter is the effect or result of evidence. (1 Greenl. Ev., Sec. 1.) These words are often used... | |
 | New York (State) - 1889 - 146 sider
...one side or on the other." i Greenleaf on evidence, § i : "The word 'evidence' in legal acceptation includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." i Taylor on Evidence, § i, (Text Book Series): "The word ' evidence', considered in relation to law,... | |
 | 1889 - 1064 sider
...given. \Vlmt is a rule of evidence? The text writers say that the word "evidence," in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of whicli is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 1. A rule oE evidence... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1890 - 1210 sider
...Parsons on Contr., n. (a), p. *4gi; Lee v. Bain, 4 Hare 216. 1. "Evidence," says Greenleaf, "inincludes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact,...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." Greenleaf on Evidence, § I. "For the proof of a contract made by word of mouth is a part of the general... | |
 | 1891 - 1248 sider
...St. Wyo. §§ 2(iOO, 2010; Bonv. Law Diet. tit. "Testimony;") while "evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved," (I Greenl. Ev. § ].) Testimony is but one of the several instruments of evidence, and cannot be considered... | |
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