 The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and...  A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors - Page 681by William Oldnall Russell - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...declarations are admitted in evidence was thus stated by Eyre, CJ, in Rex v. Woodcock (1 Leach CC 502) : " The general principle on which this species of evidence...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 808 pages
...death. "Dying declarations," as they are called, are admitted in evidence upon the general principle that they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
 | John J. Elwell - Evidence, Expert - 1871 - 624 pages
...Eyre states the general principle upon which dying declarations are admitted in evidence to be this: that they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
...under which its ^'".ci?J? ,"f reception has been allowed, are thus stated by Chief Baron Eyre: — " They are declarations made in extremity, when the...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, (1) Taylor ou Evidence, Vol. I., pp. 028—631. CHAP. XYI. when every motive... | |
 | California - Criminal law - 1872 - 698 pages
...in the language of Lord Chief Baron Eyre, in Rex vs. Woodcock, 2 Leach's Cr. Cas., pp. 207, S6(i, " That they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gooe; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, nnd the mind is induced, by the... | |
 | James Redfoord Bulwer - Justices of the peace - 1872 - 298 pages
...general principle on which declarations THE QUEEN v. JENKIKS. of this kind are admitted "is that they are made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone": Woodcock's Case (1 Leach, CC 500, 502). Before a dying declaration is admissible... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - Forensic toxicology - 1873 - 926 pages
...principle on which this species of evidence is admitted was stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre to be this: That they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most... | |
 | David Paul Brown - Forensic orations - 1873 - 442 pages
...dying, or he thinks it, that they alone become evidence— or in the language of Chief Baron Eyre, " when every hope in this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and when the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth — a situation so... | |
 | California - Criminal law - 1874 - 712 pages
...in the language of Lord Chief Baron Eyre, in Rex vs. Woodcock, 2 Leach's Cr. Cas., pp. 267, 566, " That they are declarations made in extremity, when...party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1876 - 762 pages
...are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, bj the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered... | |
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