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
| Theodore Frelinghuysen Cornell Demarest - 1905 - 152 sider
...on one side or the other." 2 According to a later writer, "the word evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the of evidence, truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." 3 This definition... | |
| Thomas Johnson Michie - 1906 - 856 sider
...them is the first duty of judges." Gregory v. Baugh, 4 Rand. 611, 615. II. Definitions. A. IN GENERAL. "The word evidence, in legal acceptation," says Greenleaf,...indifferently as synonymous with each other; but the latter is applied by the most accurate logicians to the effect of evidence, and not to the medium by... | |
| Frank H. Vizetelly - 1906 - 252 sider
...only a species of evidence through the medium of witnesses. The word evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." (Evidence, vol. i. ch. 1, p. 3.) Again "Evidence rests upon our faith in human testimony, as sanctioned... | |
| Burr W. Jones - 1908 - 1408 sider
...on the one side or on the other. ' ' 5 Says Professor Greenleaf : ' ' Evidence in legal acceptation includes all the means by which any alleged matter...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved. ' ' ° Starkie says that ' ' That which is legally offered by the litigant parties to induce a jury... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1908 - 692 sider
...there be; then they will proceed to receive and hear the evidence. in the case. SEC. 2G. Evidence is the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...which is submitted to investigation, is established or proved ; and the rules of evidence, including those which relate to the admissibility of the testimony... | |
| Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 400 sider
...CHICAGO BAB. CHAPTER I. KINDS OF EVIDENCE. SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. Evidence, in its broadest sense, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted for investigation, is established or disproved. It embraces every matter of fact, the effect, tendency... | |
| Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 396 sider
...CHICAGO BAB. tar CHAPTER I. KINDS OF EVIDENCE. SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. Evidence, in its broadest sense, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted for investigation, is established or disproved. It embraces every matter of fact, the effect, tendency... | |
| Albert Abrams - 1910 - 1124 sider
...fails to distinguish between testimony and evidence. The latter, in its legal acceptation, refers to "the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved." Diagnosis should rest on evidence and not on assumption and inference. Dr. ML Harris1 illustrates the... | |
| Gilbert Holland Stewart - 1910 - 536 sider
...how and what to observe in all cases likely to be investigated by the legal tribunals. Evidence is the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the...submitted to investigation, is established or disproved, or it is that which tends to influence the belief respecting it. Belief is produced by the consideration... | |
| 1910 - 152 sider
...in their investigations of violations of the game laws: Evidence includes all the means by which an alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is proved or disproved. Evidence may be divided into three classes, viz. ; direct evidence, circumstantial... | |
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