 | John Andrew Graham - 1812 - 96 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes 'promises of favor, or menaces, seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision, and incapable, in their nature, of being disproved by other negative evidence.. The witness says himself, that he obtained this confession from the prisoner, under his solemn promise... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - 1816 - 1048 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, pr mise» of fa\our, or menaces ; seldom remembtrtd accurately or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. By the same statute ^ ft'. III. it is declared that both witnesses must be to the same overt net of... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 Seiten
...f»l»e hope«, proc mises of favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. The human mind, under the pressure of calamity, is easily QJJ^ jjv. ^ seduced, and liable in the alarm... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favour or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. By the same statute 7 W.III. it is declared, that both witnesses must be to the same overt act of treason,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, pr reported with due precision ; and incapable, in their nature, of being disproved by other negative evidence.2 To which it may be added, that it is easy to be forged, and the most difficult to guard... | |
 | David Jardine - 1835 - 534 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.'* It was even considered (with a refinement of humanity hardly justifiable where the object is the discovery... | |
 | sir William Shee - 1836 - 160 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favour, or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. To which it may be added that it is easy to be forged and the most difficult to guard against. An unprincipled... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence (32). By the same statute 7 W. III. it is declared that both wit(31 ) It appears now to be an established... | |
 | William Shee - 1836 - 154 Seiten
...artifice, fake hopes, promises of favour, or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. To which it may be added that it is easy to be forged and the most difficult to guard against. An unprincipled... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 Seiten
...artifice, false hopes, and promises of favour or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence, 4 Black. 357. Foster, 243. A confession is inadmissible, if "forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or... | |
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And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due... 
