A Treatise on Presumptions of Law and Fact: With the Theory and Rules of Presumptive Or Circumstantial Proof in Criminal Cases |
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... appeared from time to time , ( a ) and one class of presumptions has furnished matter for a volume , ( b ) no attempt has hitherto been made to treat , in a systematic manner , ( c ) the whole subject as understood and acted on in ...
... appeared from time to time , ( a ) and one class of presumptions has furnished matter for a volume , ( b ) no attempt has hitherto been made to treat , in a systematic manner , ( c ) the whole subject as understood and acted on in ...
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... appearance of written documents , & c . , often form valuable elements in the discovery of truth . ( b ) In by far [ * 12 ] the greater number of cases , however , the tribunal , whe- ther judge or jury , is obliged to decide matters of ...
... appearance of written documents , & c . , often form valuable elements in the discovery of truth . ( b ) In by far [ * 12 ] the greater number of cases , however , the tribunal , whe- ther judge or jury , is obliged to decide matters of ...
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... appeared to Papinian to be sufficient proof of such release . ( x ) § 35. Strong presumptions of fact , on the contrary , shift the burden of proof , even though the evidence to * rebut them involve [ 43 the proof of a negative . ( y ) ...
... appeared to Papinian to be sufficient proof of such release . ( x ) § 35. Strong presumptions of fact , on the contrary , shift the burden of proof , even though the evidence to * rebut them involve [ 43 the proof of a negative . ( y ) ...
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... appeared in evi- dence that both his parents were dead when the marriage was solem- nized , and there was no legal guardian ; but the plaintiff's mother , who survived the father , on her deathbed desired a friend to become guar- dian ...
... appeared in evi- dence that both his parents were dead when the marriage was solem- nized , and there was no legal guardian ; but the plaintiff's mother , who survived the father , on her deathbed desired a friend to become guar- dian ...
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... appeared to be one of them , in which one could not help feeling that justice had not been done . " It is , how- ever , rather a strong proposition , to say that the Courts would set aside verdicts ad infinitum , because juries have ...
... appeared to be one of them , in which one could not help feeling that justice had not been done . " It is , how- ever , rather a strong proposition , to say that the Courts would set aside verdicts ad infinitum , because juries have ...
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Page 85 - Lancaster, or being the property of any ecclesiastical or lay person or body corporate, when such way or other matter as herein last before mentioned shall have been actually enjoyed by any person claiming right thereto without interruption for the full period of twenty years, shall be defeated or destroyed by showing only that such way or other matter was first enjoyed at any time prior to such period of twenty years...
Page 85 - ... years, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible, unless it shall appear that the same was enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly given or made for that purpose by deed or writing.
Page 86 - ... no act or other matter shall be deemed to be an interruption, within the meaning of this statute, unless the same shall have been or shall be submitted to or acquiesced in for one year after the party interrupted shall have had or shall have notice thereof, and of the person making or authorizing the same to be made.
Page 85 - That the Time during which any Person otherwise capable of resisting any Claim to any of the Matters before mentioned shall have been or shall be an Infant, Idiot, Non compos mentis, Feme Covert, or Tenant for Life, or during which any Action or Suit shall have been pending, and which shall have been diligently prosecuted, until abated by the Death of any Party or Parties thereto, shall be excluded in the Computation of the Periods herein-before mentioned, except only in Cases where the Right or...
Page 161 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Page 83 - Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same that no claim which may be lawfully made at the common law by custom prescription or grant to any...
Page 172 - They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country ; whilst he suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. CHAPTER X. OF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, AND OF TOLERATION. ' A RELIGIOUS establishment is no part of Christianity ; it is only the means of inculcating it.
Page 85 - That no claim which may be lawfully made at the common law, by custom, prescription, or grant, to any way or other easement, or to any watercourse, or the use of any water...
Page 89 - ... tenant for life, or during which any action or suit shall have been pending, and which shall have been diligently prosecuted, until abated by the death of any party or parties thereto, shall be excluded in the computation of the periods...
Page 86 - It seems, therefore, that the 'enjoyment as of right' must mean an enjoyment had, not secretly or by stealth, or by tacit sufferance, or by permission asked from time to time, on each occasion or even on many occasions of using it; but an enjoyment had openly, notoriously, without particular leave at the time, by a person claiming to use it without danger of being treated as a trespasser, as a matter of right, whether strictly legal, by...