 | Theodore Thring - 1861 - 416 pages
...either reward or punish them in this world or the next, cannot be witnesses in any case, nor under any circumstances, for this plain reason, because an oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation to them." 2 Method of The proper method, however, of administering ing the the oath, must vary according... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 pages
...reward " or punish them in this world or in the next, cannot be wit" nesses in any case, nor under any circumstances, for this " plain reason ; because...cannot possibly be any tie or " obligation upon them." By various statutes, Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists, are enabled to make affirmations instead... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - 1877 - 780 pages
...either reward or punish them in thix world or in thf nfxt. cannot be witnesses in any case, nor under any circumstances — for this plain reason, because an oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation to them."1 given : " Do .you say your prayers?" " Yes." " What becomes of a person who tells lies ?"... | |
 | 1883 - 434 pages
...infidels, if any such there be, who do not believe in a God . . . cannot be witnesses in any case, or under any circumstances, for this plain reason, because...cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them;'' and therefore, if he objects to take an oath, the judge ought upon that statement to be satisfied that... | |
 | James Kirby - 1883 - 448 pages
...not believe in a God . ."^cannot be witnesses in any case or under any circumstances, for this plais reason, because an oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them"; and, therefor;, if he objects to take an oath, the judge ought upon that statement to be satisfied... | |
 | 1885 - 666 pages
...either reward or punish them in this world or in the next, cannot be witnesses in any case, nor under any circumstances, for this plain reason, because...cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them." There is therefore no necessity that the person should believe that he will be punished in a future... | |
 | Edmund Powell, John Cutler, Edmund Fuller Griffin - 1885 - 772 pages
...in this world or in the next, cannot be witnesses under any case or under any circumstances, for the plain reason, because an oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them" («). The effect of the Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1869, is to render the evidence of atheists... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1904 - 1150 pages
...either reward or punish them in this world or in the next, cannot be witnesses in any case nor under any circumstances, for this plain reason, because...cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them I do not think that the same credit ought to be given either by court or jury to an infidel witness... | |
 | Ernest Cockle - 1907 - 248 pages
...either reward or punish them in this world or in the next, cannot be witnesses in any case or under any circumstances, for this plain reason : because...cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them. . . . The oath was administered to the witnesses in the same words as here in England, which fully... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1907 - 606 pages
...or punish them in the world to come, can not be witnesses in any case, nor under any circumstances, because an oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them." — 18 Johnson's Rep., 103. By this decision it would appear, that to render a man a competent witness,... | |
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And, on the other hand, that such infidels who either do not believe in a God, or if they do, do not think that He will either reward or punish them in this world or in the next, cannot be witnesses in any case nor under any circumstances, for this plain... 
