 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham - 1821 - 812 Seiten
...letter to any person with such contents, or contents to the like effect, without having first shewn the witness the letter, and having asked him whether he wrote that letter. Ibid. 286 6. Two or three lines of a letter may be exhibited to a witness, without exhibiting to him... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain), Joseph Nightingale - 1821 - 658 Seiten
...contents of every written paper are, according to the ordinary and well established rules of evidence, to be proved by, the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence; the proper course, therefore, my lords, is, to ask the witness whether or... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) - 1821 - 718 Seiten
...contents of every written paper are, according to the ordinary and well-est.-iblished rules of evidence, to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence; the proper course therefore, my lords, is, to ask the witness whether or... | |
 | 1821 - 716 Seiten
...contents of every written paper are, accordmg to the ordinary and well-established rules of evidence, to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence; the proper course therefore, my lords, is, to ask the witness whether or... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1822 - 644 Seiten
...letter, which was produced and shewn to the witness; because " the contents of every written paper are to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence." But if the paper be not in existence, this reasoning will not apply. If,... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 708 Seiten
...contents of every written paper are, according to the ordinary and well established rules of evidence, to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence. The proper course, therefore, is to ask the witness whether or no that letter... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1827 - 824 Seiten
...contents of every written paper are, according to the ordinary and well-established rules of evidence, to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence."* Good: provided always it be a necessary consequence, that a paper is forthcoming,... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 Seiten
...in the negative; and Abbott, CJ, stated their reasons to be that the contents of every written paper are to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence : the proper course, therefore, was to ask the witness whether or no that... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1830 - 852 Seiten
...contents of every written paper, are, according to the ordinary and well established rules of evidence, to be proved by the paper itself, and by that alone, if the paper be in existence." Let us see how this principle has been acted upon in the cases that have... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1831 - 1154 Seiten
...letter to any person with such contents, or contents to the like effect, without having first shown the witness the letter, and having asked him whether he wrote that letter. Queen's case, 2 If. üy B. 286. And if, on cross-examination, a witness admits a letter to be of his... | |
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The counsel will not be permitted to represent in the statement of a question the contents of a letter, and to ask the witness whether he wrote a letter to any person with such contents, or contents to the like effect, without having first shown to the... 
