 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1998 - 1126 pages
...Kelham. DYING DECLARATIONS. In the law of evidence. Declarations made in extremity, (in extremis), when the party is at the point of death, and when...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. Lord CB Eyre, 2 Leach's Or. 0. 563, case 218. Thess are admissible as evidence only in oases of homicide,... | |
 | Philippines - Law - 2001 - 770 pages
...A declaration made with awareness of imminent demise, it has often been said, is "made in extremis, when the party is at the point of death and when every...considerations to speak the truth; a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is created by a positive... | |
 | John Durham Peters - Philosophy - 2010 - 318 pages
...thought minimal (though some people are infinitely wily) . As a late-eighteenth-century judge wrote, "they are declarations made in extremity, when the...this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood has 10. Page duBois, Torture and Truth (New York: Routledge, 1991); Aristotle, Rhetoric, 13773. 11.... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 798 pages
...Cases, 563, 566, the general principle on which this species of evidence is admittf1 was stated by Lord Chief Baron Eyre to be this: "That they are declarations...speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is The People t>. Vincente Sanchez. considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 810 pages
...necessity only; and because made in extremity, and when the party n'rmly believes that death is impending, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; and unless they believe from the evidence, that such were the circumstances under which Cornell's... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 860 pages
...an exception to the general rule, and from considerations of public interest, and upon the principle "that they are declarations made in extremity when...every hope of. this world is gone; when every motive of falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny - Criminal law - 1928 - 634 pages
...of recovery. The general principle on which declarations of this kind are admitted is that "they are made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world U gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations... | |
 | Philippines - Law - 1990 - 642 pages
...Ruben Diaz and Sergio Diaz, as his assailants. When a person is at the point of death, every motive for falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful, consideration to speak the truth, and therefore his statements, under such circumstances, deserve great... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 642 pages
...of an eminent authority on the subject, which are these : 4 They (that is, dying declarations) are made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is... | |
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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... 
