 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
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 820 pages
...confirmatory declarations which she made after she had received the mortal wounds, and before she died. Now 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... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...she died. Kow the general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted ia. that they arc declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope' of this world is gone; w'heu every motive tu lalschuod is silenced, niul the mind is induced by the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1122 pages
...declarations made in extremity, under a sense of impending death, and, therefore, when every hope of the world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced and the mind is induced by the most powerful consideration to speak the truth— a situation so solemn and awful Is considered by the law as creating... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1054 pages
...137, 95 Am. Dec. 776; People v. Olmstead, 30 Mich. 431; Dem« v. State, 39 Md. 357. Dying declarations are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point deprived of the benefit of the searchlight of cross-examination, they are not entitled to as much weight... | |
 | Thomas Welburn Hughes - Evidence (Law) - 1905 - 740 pages
...the declaration equivalent to that of the sanctity of an oath. As stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre, "they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak... | |
 | M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...are declarations made in extremity, when the parly is at the point of death and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the luin 1 is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. They are now only admissible... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 2198 pages
...principle on which this species of evidence is admittc'l 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... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1906 - 944 pages
...declarations are 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 hy the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered... | |
 | Herbert Raine Curlewis - Jurisprudence - 1906 - 324 pages
...the time given up all hope of life. on the ground that the statement was made " when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is reduced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful... | |
 | Ernest Cockle - Evidence (Law) - 1907 - 248 pages
...sufficient if the circumstances show that he expected speedy death, and was without hope. ETEE, CB " 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 most... | |
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