Notes to Phillipps' Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Մաս 1Gould, Banks, 1839 - 1752 էջ |
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Էջ 34 - Such depositions may be taken before any judge of any court of the United States, or any commissioner of a circuit, or any clerk of a district or circuit court, or any chancellor, justice, or judge of a supreme or superior court, mayor or chief magistrate of a city, judge of a county court, or court of common pleas of any of the United States...
Էջ 282 - ... no person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient, in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him, as a surgeon.
Էջ 379 - There may be, and there must be allowed of that, which is common to all, a reasonable use. The true test of the principle and extent of the use is, whether it is to the injury of the other proprietors or not.
Էջ 403 - The wise and beneficent Author of Nature, who intended that we should be social creatures, and that we should receive the greatest and most important part of our knowledge by the information of others, hath, for these purposes, implanted in our natures two principles that tally with each other.
Էջ 65 - When a person is sworn who believes in any other than the Christian religion, he may be sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his religion, if there be any such.
Էջ 379 - The right to the use of water rests on clear and settled principles. Prima facie, the proprietor of each bank of a stream is the proprietor of half the land covered by the stream, but there is no property in the water. Every proprietor has an equal right to use the water which flows in the stream ; and consequently no proprietor can have the right to use the water to the prejudice of any other proprietor. Without the consent of the other proprietors, who may be affected by his operations, no proprietor...
Էջ 587 - Rep. 250, it was said, that to be a part of the res gestce, the declarations " must have been made at the time of the act done, which they are supposed to characterize, and have been well calculated to unfold the nature and quality of the facts they were intended to explain, and so to harmonize with them as obviously to constitute one transaction.
Էջ 35 - States, a circuit court on application thereto made as a court of equity, may, according, to the usages in chancery direct to be taken. Sec. 31. And be it further enacted, That where any suit shall be depending in any court of the United States...
Էջ 310 - ... man; and so to convince him that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own interest.
Էջ 66 - The general rule is," says Chitty, " that it is no objection to the competency of a witness, that he is...