 | Millard Fillmore - 1907 - 520 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,... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1913 - 1422 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...oath cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them.1 . . . In order to obtain justice the plaintiff in this cause laid his case properly before the... | |
 | Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz - 1914 - 996 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." The learned judge also dealt with the distinction to be observed between the credit and the competency... | |
 | Edward Wilcox Hinton - 1919 - 1136 pages
...either reward or punish them in this world 8 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 therefore entirely disagree with what is reported to have been said by Lord Chief Justice Ley in... | |
 | 1929 - 1640 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." [Willes, 549, 125 Eng. Reprint, 1315.] 5 Jones, Ev. 2d ed. § 2091. As pointed out in 40 Cyc. 2203,... | |
 | 1929 - 1636 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." [Willes, 549, 125 Eng. Reprint, 1315.] 5 Jones, Ev. 2d ed. § 2091. As pointed out in 40 Cyc. 2203,... | |
 | 1929 - 1658 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." [Willes, 549, 125 Eng. Reprint, 1315.] 5 Jones, Ev. 2d ed. § 2091. As pointed out in 40 Cyc. 2203,... | |
 | 1929 - 1046 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." 5 Jones on Ev. (2d Ed.) I 2091. As pointed out In 40 Cyc. 2203, the following states have abrogated... | |
 | Gerald Parsons, James Richard Moore - 1988 - 562 pages
...be witnesses in any case nor under any circumstances.' It is not only 'in any case,' but 'nor under any circumstances,' for this plain reason, because...cannot possibly be any tie or obligation upon them; of course meaning that as an oath it cannot be any tie or obligation upon them. Therefore there is... | |
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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... 
