| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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