 With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral -statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself...  The Atlantic Reporter - Seite 2331890Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1888 - 714 Seiten
...— is, that they ought to be received with great caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral...meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1848 - 904 Seiten
...our country, (.Mr. Greenleaf,Ym his treatise upon the law of evidence, (Greenl. Ev. 233,) remarks: " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed,...meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 Seiten
...the mere suggestions of counsel (/). § 622. With respect to all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 Seiten
...spectators of their occurrence. Mr. Greenleaf, in his treatise upon the law of evidence, remarks : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed...evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself, either being misinformed... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - 1851 - 898 Seiten
...while no notion is so erroneous. With respect to all verbal admissions, says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200) it may be observed that they ought to be received...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not havini clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - 1851 - 64 Seiten
...there is a With respect to all verbal admissions says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200)it may be.observed that they ought to be received with great caution....of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890 - 816 Seiten
...as it does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | 1859 - 292 Seiten
...read to you what Mr. Greenlea-f says on this subject. 1 read from Greenleaf's Evidence, L 258, §200, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed,...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | 1859 - 300 Seiten
...to you what Mr. Greenlcaf says on this subject. 1 read from Greenlcaf's Evidence, I. 258, § 200, " with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed,...misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens also that the witness by unintentionally... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 Seiten
...received with caution. Taylor says, § 622. " With respect to all vtr&al admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
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