 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...is " well expressed by Lord Chief Justice Eyre, " every hope of this world is gone, every mo" tive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is " induced...most powerful considerations " to speak the truth." (Vide Melun's dying declaration in the fifth act of this play.) "A " situation so solemn and so awful,... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 666 pages
...in a case of this kind, " when the party is at Ib. 567. the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1822 - 668 pages
...point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is . fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situa-^ tioii so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 pages
...admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone : when every...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to... | |
 | 1869 - 972 pages
...declarations are 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...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 1358 pages
...Eyre, are made in extremity, lctest' when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone, when every motive to falsehood...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn, and so impending '«• • Iribution. awful, he observed, is considered by... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1841 - 662 pages
...languished when, in the language of Chief Baron .Eyre, in Woodcocks case, 1 Leach, 502, "every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth, a situation so solemn and awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 pages
...of 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...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful, is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1845 - 824 pages
...admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone, when every...the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1846 - 598 pages
...admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope in this world is gone, when every...the most powerful considerations to speak the truth ; a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that... | |
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The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is 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... 
