 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 532 pages
...be enacted or provided against ; ; -".IK, convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 25. [Sect. 22.] A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 836 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 23. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 532 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful or corrupt perjury ; s. 19A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Kerr - Procedure (Law) - 1854 - 270 pages
...under this new law, combined with the old practice, contradict or impeach the credit of his witness. " A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad cha- Umefara racter." This provision, not interfering with the previous law, but being only in restraint... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 1060 pages
...the publication of the award to the parties, been made a rule of Court, such document may be made a be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 566 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of »Ufa! and corrupt perjury. 22. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of thejdje, prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 528 pages
...plaintiff. Roll and Eddis, in support, referred to the 17 & 18 Viet. c. 125, s. 22, which enacts, that " a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge, prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 552 pages
...kingdom are or may be enacted or provided against persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. 22. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, bat he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge, prove adverse, contradict him by... | |
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence - 1856 - 374 pages
...who has proved unexpectedly adverse to the party who calls him : — The 2nd section enacts, that " a party producing a witness shall, not be allowed...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County). Stannaries - Civil procedure - 1856 - 326 pages
...declaration shall be of the same force and effect as if such person had taken an oath in the usual form. 80. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to...his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge, prove adverse, contradict him by other... | |
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A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge,... 
