A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence

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Henry C. Lea, 1873 - Forensic toxicology - 879 pages
 

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Page 33 - That they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.
Page 793 - There may be an unseen ligament pressing on the mind, drawing it to consequences which it sees, but cannot avoid, and placing it under a coercion, which, while its results are clearly perceived, is incapable of resistance. The doctrine which acknowledges this mania is dangerous in its relations, and can be recognized only in the clearest cases. It ought to be shown to have been habitual, or at least to have evinced itself in more than a single instance.
Page 40 - ... which he is peculiarly conversant from the nature of his employment in life. The former is bound, as a matter of public duty, to speak to a fact which happens to have fallen within his own knowledge — without such testimony the course of justice must be stopped.
Page 540 - ... with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall...
Page 793 - The doctrine which acknowledges this mania is dangerous in its relations, and can be recognized only in the clearest cases. It ought to have been shown to have been habitual, or at least to have evinced itself in more than a single instance.
Page 82 - That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing so as thereby to endanger the life of such person, or so as thereby to inflict upon such person any grievous bodily harm, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be.
Page 798 - ... to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Page 854 - The insured need not mention what the underwriter ought to know, •what he takes upon himself the knowledge of, or what he waives being informed of.
Page 33 - The persons whose declarations are thus admitted, are considered as standing in the same situation as if they were sworn, the danger of impending death being equivalent to the sanction of an oath.
Page 778 - In a letter, attached to the will, the testator said, " The world may think this to be done in a spirit of singularity or whim, but I have a mortal aversion to funeral pomp, and I wish my body to be converted into purposes useful to mankind.

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