 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...subject of inquiry. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined ; the only... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...subject of enquiry. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined ; the only... | |
 | John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - Criminal procedure - 1865 - 672 pages
...the truth of which is submitted to judicial investigation.* Satisfactory or sufficient evidence is that amount of proof •which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced! mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined : the only... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 698 pages
...See note to Sec. 1826, ante. Satisfactory evidence is sometimes called sufficient evidence, and * h that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined. The only... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...Mr. Greenleaf : "By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. Tho circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined; the only... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 2192 pages
...§2, is: "By 'satisfactory evidence,' which is sometimes called 'sufficient evidence,' is intruded that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this decree of proof can never be previously defined. The only... | |
 | Georgia Public Service Commission - Railroads - 1880 - 652 pages
...2 of vol. 1: 'By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. • * Question« respecting the competency and adniissibllity of evidence »re entirely distinct from... | |
 | Eugene Crowell - Spiritualism - 1881 - 554 pages
...to be proved. " By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt." And again : "While unbounded credulity is the attribute of weak minds, which seldom think or reason... | |
 | 1887 - 1038 pages
...Scribner, 57 Me. 495. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. 1 Greenl. Ev. 8 2, p. 4; 1 Starkie, Ev. 514; Young v. Edwards, 72 Pa. 267. Convinced is defined "to... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 782 pages
...559; Beach v. Clark, 51 Conn. 200; Ruff®. Jarrett, 94 111. 475. By satisfactory evidence, " is meant that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt." 1 Greenl. on Evid. [14 Ed.] sec. 2 ; Whitney ». Clifford, 67 Wis. 156. Here the jury are told that... | |
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By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be... 
