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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... "
Transcript Appeals: The File of Opinions in Cases Argued Before the Court of ... - Page 26
by New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - 1868
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Speeches: Delivered at the City-Hall of the City of New York, in the Courts ...

John Andrew Graham - 1812 - 96 pages
...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...
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A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary: Elucidating the Terms, and ...

Thomas Walter Williams - 1816 - 1048 pages
...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...
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The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Volume 1

Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 pages
...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...
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Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 4

sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...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,...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 3

Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...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...
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The Lives and Criminal Trials of Celebrated Men

David Jardine - 1835 - 534 pages
...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...
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Reflections on the trial of the prince de Polignac and his colleagues ...

sir William Shee - 1836 - 160 pages
...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...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an ..., Volume 4

William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...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...
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Reflections on the Trial of the Prince de Polignac and His Colleagues: The ...

William Shee - 1836 - 154 pages
...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...
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Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration: 1837 to 1844

Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 pages
...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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