 | John Pitt Taylor - 1858 - 934 pages
...judgment on the credit of the witnesses adduced and on the truth of their testimony ; " — enacts, that " no person offered as a witness shall hereafter...incapacity from crime or interest' from giving evidence either in person or by deposition, 1 3 & 4 Viet., c. 105, §§ 51, 52, Ir. ; now repealed by 16 & 17... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1859 - 654 pages
...circumstances, to be examined as witnesses. (6 & 7 Vic. c. 86.) It was enacted, that "no person should be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence" in a court of law. But the act contained a proviso that excluded the plaintiff himself. An action was... | |
 | Edmund Powell - 1859 - 540 pages
...assembled, and by the authority of the same, that no person offered as a witness shall hereafter he excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue... | |
 | Thomas James Arnold - 1860 - 752 pages
...incompetency of a witness on (he score of interest was entirely swept away; that statute enacting (s. I), " that no person offered as a witness shall hereafter...incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence" &c. Under this statute, therefore, a prosecutor, though " having a pecuniary interest in the result"... | |
 | Richard Thomas Tidswell, Sir Ralph Daniel Makinson Littler - 1860 - 376 pages
...reduced of late years by the stat. 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, c 1, by which no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court, on the trial of any issue... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 pages
...85, s. 1, it is enacted that, after the passing of that statute, no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence. This Act contains an exception, as to the parties to the suit, which has been removed by 14 & 15 Viet.... | |
 | Stephen Vincent Benét - 1862 - 396 pages
...judgment on the credit of the witnesses adduced, and on the truth of their testimony ;" and enacts " that no person offered as a witness shall hereafter...incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence." A change tending directly to the same conclusion, is now also taking place in all our states, but reserving,... | |
 | Prince Edward Island - 1862 - 892 pages
...of their testimony : Now therefore, be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That no person offered as a witness shall hereafter...incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court on the trial of any issue... | |
 | Turks and Caicos Islands, Alfred John Duncombe - 1862 - 640 pages
...credit of the witnesses adduced, and on tho truth of their testimony ; Now, therefore, May it, &c., That no person offered as a witness, shall hereafter...incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court, on the trial of any issue... | |
 | George Smoult Fagan - 1862 - 1128 pages
...their testimony : It is hereby enacted, that, within the local jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Courts, no person offered as a witness shall hereafter be...incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court on the trial of any issue... | |
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That no person offered as a witness shall hereafter be excluded, by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any... 
