 A witness may be impeached by the party against whom he was called, by contradictory evidence or by evidence that his general reputation for truth, honesty, or integrity is bad, but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may be shown...  Ogden's Revised California Real Property Law - Page 421by Melvin Bolli Ogden - 1902 - 1810 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...produced, by evidence that his general reputation for truth or immorality renders him unworthy of belief; but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may be shown by the examination of a witness or record of a judgment, that he has been convicted of felony." Under this statute the court... | |
 | New York (State). - Civil procedure - 1850 - 920 pages
...without leave of the court. Leave is granted or withheld, in the exercise of a sound discretion. § 1847. A witness may be impeached by the party against whom...by evidence that his general reputation for truth is bad, or that his moral character is such as to render him unworthy of belief, but not by evidence... | |
 | Kentucky - Law - 1851 - 548 pages
...or by evidence that his general reputation for truth or immorality renders him unworthy of belief, but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may be shown by the examination of a witness, or record of a judgment, that he has been convicted of felony. § 500. Before other evidence... | |
 | Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 pages
...or by evidence that his general reputation for truth or immorality renders him unworthy of belief, but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may be shown by the examination of a witness, or record of a judgment, that he has been convicted of felony. § 560. Before other evidence... | |
 | California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, John Hill McKune - Civil procedure - 1872 - 886 pages
...of a sound discretion. HOW 2051. A witness may be impeached by the party against whom he was culled, by contradictory evidence or by evidence that his...particular wrongful acts, except that it may be shown how by the examination of the witness, or the record of the judgment, that he had been convicted of... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 698 pages
...is granted or withheld, in the exercise of a sound discretion. NOTE.— See Sec. 2042, ante. 2051. A witness may be impeached by the party against whom...reputation for truth, honesty, or integrity is bad, but net by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may he shown by the examination of the... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 774 pages
...CCP § 824. Vide § 2042. $ 8051. A witness may be impeached by the party ngainst whom be was culled, by contradictory evidence or by evidence that his general reputation for truth, honesty or integrity in bad, but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts, except that it may be nlioxvn by the examination... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1876 - 888 pages
...the exercise of a Bound discretion. If. YCCP S 1846; Or. CCP S 82>. Vide § 2042 42 Cml. 301. $ 2O51. A witness may be impeached by the party against whom...witness, or the record •of the judgment, that he has heen convicted of a felony. NYCCP 5 1847 ; Or. CCP S 830 ; stats. 1867-8, p. 19J-4. Vide 55 1847-1879... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - Law - 1876 - 986 pages
...Leave is granted or withheld, in the exercise of a sound discretion. 12.051. flow impeached. SEC. 2051. A witness may be impeached by the party against whom...the witness, or the record of the judgment, that he had been convicted of a felony. 12.052. Same. SEC. 2052. A witness may also be impeached by evidence... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 620 pages
...under these circumstances. (1 Greenleaf on Ev., § 469.) Section 830 of the Civil Code provides that " a witness may be impeached by the party against whom...by contradictory evidence, or by evidence that his character for general truth is bad," etc. Section 831 provides that "a witness may also be impeached... | |
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