 ... appears, on strict examination by the Court, to possess a sufficient knowledge, of the nature and consequences of an oath; for there is no precise or fixed rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissibility...  Medical Jurisprudence - Էջ 398John Ayrton Paris, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque - 1823 - 440 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 էջ
...is no precise or fixed rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissibility depends upon the sense and...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The JUDGES... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - 1816 - 218 էջ
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence: but their admissiuility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which is to lie collected from their answers to- qnestions propounded to them by the Court. Leach, 238. 3 A witness... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 834 էջ
...Cannot make a deed till 21. Nor enter into recognisance. bility of children depends upon the tense and reason they entertain of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which is to be collected JroiH their answers to questions propounded by the court. — In Brazier's Case, on an indictment for... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1825 - 696 էջ
...rule a« to the time withjn which infants are excluded from giving evidence; bat their admissi. bility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the court; but if they are found incompetent, their testimony cannot be received."—East's Crown Law, 1, p. 144.... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1854 - 928 էջ
...Ptnoell 's case, Gould, J., on an indictment for 1 Leach's Crown Law, 110. 202 INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE. the sense and reason they entertain of the danger...answers to questions propounded to them by the court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received." § 151. Brasier's... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1858 - 744 էջ
...depended upon the sense and reason they entertained of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which was to be collected from their answers to questions propounded to them by the Court. In People v. McNair, (21 Wend., 609,) the defendant requested the Court to question a lad of eleven... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 էջ
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their admissihility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The Judges... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1860 - 910 էջ
...is no precise or fixed rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence, but their admissibility depends upon the sense and...answers to questions propounded to them by the court; but if they are found incompetent, their testimony cannot be received." (East's Crown Law, vol. ip... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 էջ
...rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence ; but their acluoissibility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of...answers to questions propounded to them by the Court ; but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be received. The Judges... | |
 | Thomas Edward Beatty - 1866 - 710 էջ
...admitted or rejected ; but their admissi" bility depends upon the sense and reason they enter" tain of the danger and impiety of falsehood, which is " to be collected from their answers to questions pro" pounded to them by the court."* Females, before they reach the time of life at which menstruation... | |
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