INDEX.

A.

ABATEMENT, Pleas in, 204.

ACCOUNT STATED, Evidence of, 240.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, when to be proved, and
how, 26.

ACTS OF STATE, how proved, 79.

ADDRESS TO THE KING, how proved, ib.
ADMINISTRATION (Letters of), when evidence, and
their effect, 69, 74.

ADMINISTRATOR.

See Executor.

ADMIRALTY Court, when its proceedings are evidence,

69.

ADMISSIONS of a Party. Vide Answer, Affidavit. When
evidence, 180. Acts amounting to admission, 20.
of an agent, 17, 19.

ADULTERY, action for, 330.

AFFIDAVIT in a Cause, when evidence, and how proved,
57.

voluntary, 55, 58.

AFFIRMATIVE. The party maintaining it in general to
begin, 4.

exception to this rule, 5.

AGENTS, when witnesses, 164.

effect of their admissions, 17.

AMBIGUITY, what, and how explained, 112.
ANIMAL, mischievous, action for keeping of, 291.

G G

ANSWER in Chancery, where evidence, 54, 98.
how proved, 32.

considered as an admission, 55.

the whole must be copied and read, 55, 57.
second answer received to explain the first, 56.
of an infant by his guardian, 54.
of a feme covert, ib.

APPRENTICE, action for harbouring, 334.

ARTICLES OF WAR, how proved, 79.

ASSIGNEE, action of covenant by or against, 266.

ASSURANCE, action on policy, 222.

ATHEISTS cannot be witnesses, 141.

ATTORNEY not to reveal confidential communications,

177.

evidence in action on his bill, 245.

AWARD, how far evidence, 75.

B.

BAILIFF, evidence in action against, 386.

BANK BOOKS, when evidence, and how proved, 91, 230.
BANKRUPTCY, who may be witnesses in questions of,

167.

action by assignees, 335.

action by bankrupt for taking the goods,
336.

against a bankrupt who has fraudulently

obtained his certificate, 336.

evidence of a subsequent promise, 341,

BARRATRY, evidence ou indictment for, 7.

BARRISTER, not permitted to reveal the confidential
communications of his client, 177.

BASTARD. See Legitimacy.

BILL IN CHANCERY, when evidence, 53.
how proved, 32.

BILL OF EXCEPTIONS, where it lies, 3.

BILL OF EXCHANGE, where a party to it is a witness,

154, 181.

action on, 218.

BOOKS. See Register.

those of tradesmen, or other private persons,

when evidence, 12, 14.

of the Navy Office, 79.

of a prison, ib.

logbook of a man of war, ib.

of the Bank, 91, 230.

of a Corporation, 90.

of the Fleet, 87.

CASE, action on, 284.

General Issue, 285.

C.

CHANCERY, Bill in, how far evidence, 53.
answer, 54.

of the regularity of its proceedings, 66.
CHARACTER of either Party when in Issue, 6.
of defendant in criminal prosecutions, 7, 8.
of witnesses, how attacked, 125, 129.
by which party, 125,

evidence in actions for giving a false, 289.

CHILDREN, when witnesses, 123.

CHRONICLES, when evidence, 79.

COMMONER, action by, 294.

CONSTABLE, evidence in action against, 397.
COMMONS, Journals, 52.

COMPROMISE, no offer of, admissible, 19.
CONFESSION of Prisoners, where evidence, 19.

of a party to a deed does not take away the
necessity of calling the subscribing witness,
98.

COMPARISON of Hands, not admitted, 104.
COPIES of Records, where evidence, 28.
COPYHOLDER, ejectment by, 425.

against, at the suit of the Lord, 426.
action against for a fine on admission,

428.

CORPORATION Books, when evidence, and how proved,

90.

CORPORATORS, when witnesses, 149, 161.
COVENANT, action of, 264.

COVERTURE, evidence on plea of, 262.

COURTS. Vide Chancery

1

Deposition-Bill—Answer

-Affidavit-Judgment-Record-Ecclesiastical
Court-Admiralty Court-Foreign Court-Court
Baron-County Court.

In Courts not of Record, all the proceedings must
be proved, 66, 74.

COURT BARON, evidence of its proceedings, 74.

of its rolls, 87.

COUNTY COURT, 74.

CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, evidence in action for,

330.

CUSTOMARY, when evidence, 88.

D.

DAUGHTER, action for seducing, 333.

DEBT, action of, 272.

DECEIT, action for, 289.

DECREE of Chancery, when evidence, and against whom,
68.

exemplification of, when evidence, ib.
of other Courts, 69.

DEEDS must be produced, 96.

when a copy may be admitted, 97.
how proved, if in hands of a third person,

ib.

when read without proof of execution, 109.
when it may be explained, 112, &c.

when counterpart evidence, 96.

DEMURRER to Evidence, when it lies, 4.

DEPOSITIONS-

in Chaucery, when evidence, 58, 67.

in the cause by commission or rule of court, 60.
taken in India, 62.

before justices, 67.