 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...is " well expressed by Lord Chief Justice Eyre, " every hope of this world is gone, every mo" tive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is " induced...most powerful considerations " to speak the truth." (Vide Melun's dying declaration in the fifth act of this play.) "A " situation so solemn and so awful,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence - 1822 - 666 pages
...this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence - 1822 - 668 pages
...point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is . fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situa-^ tioii so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1828 - 836 pages
...declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood is silenced,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 972 pages
...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,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 582 pages
...in extremity, tcre9t" 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,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situation so solemn, and so Impending reawtui, he observed, is considered by the law as creating... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 662 pages
...reason of the injury received, and under which he than languished. When every hope of this world is gone : when every motive to falsehood is silenced,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth, a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to thai which... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...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,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1846 - 598 pages
...declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced,...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
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Now 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... 
