 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 766 էջ
...taken (as now offered) subsequent to the passage of the Act of thej 3d of March, 1865, which provides that in actions by or against executors, administrators,...rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allow jJ to testify against the other as to any transaction with or statement by the testator, intestate,... | |
 | William A. Shinn - 1878 - 640 էջ
...must control in this respect. By those laws no witness can be excluded on account of interest except in actions by or against executors, administrators...which judgment may be rendered for or against them. In all other respects the laws of the State govern. (Rev. Stat., Sec. 858.) By the laws of the State,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 էջ
...id. 851, declaring that in the courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried, is not locally inapplicable ; and the territorial court., though but a legislative court, is still... | |
 | 1878 - 1042 էջ
...actions by or against >rs, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or .fhem, @ 'ions with or statements of the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to thereto by the opposite... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 808 էջ
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." 13 Stat. 351. Prior to its passage, the courts of the United States adhered, with great strictness,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 732 էջ
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in any civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried." 13 Stat. at Large, 351. The immediate effect of the provision that no witness should be excluded in... | |
 | Jere Baxter - 1879 - 750 էջ
..."in actions or proceedings by or against executors, administrators or Spence r. Crockett & Ransom. guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall lie allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator,... | |
 | 1894 - 2072 էջ
...of the United States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried; provided, tlint. in action's by or against executors, administrators or guardians_ in which judgment may be rendered... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Robert William Hughes - 1880 - 750 էջ
...5088. And, generally, in the courts of the United States, " no witness shall be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Section 858, p. 162. 6. The question raised by the sixth exception is one of more serious moment. The... | |
 | 1896 - 2118 էջ
...Revised Statutes of the United States, it is enacted that "* * * no witness shall be excluded • • • because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried:" provided (so far as affects the present case) "that in actions by * * * administrators • • • neither party... | |
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States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment... 
