 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...— is, that they ought to be received with great caution. "This evidence," as said by Mr. Greenleaf, "consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...our country, (.Mr. Greenleaf,Ym his treatise upon the law of evidence, (Greenl. Ev. 233,) remarks: " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed,...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...the mere suggestions of counsel (/). § 622. With respect to all verbal admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his meaning,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...spectators of their occurrence. Mr. Greenleaf, in his treatise upon the law of evidence, remarks : " With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed...evidence, consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself, either being misinformed... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...while no notion is so erroneous. With respect to all verbal admissions, says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200) it may be observed that they ought to be received...of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not havini clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...there is a With respect to all verbal admissions says Greenleaf (vol. I, p. 200)it may be.observed that they ought to be received with great caution....of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...read to you what Mr. Greenlea-f says on this subject. 1 read from Greenleaf's Evidence, L 258, §200, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed,...statements is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, in the witness... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...to you what Mr. Greenlcaf says on this subject. 1 read from Greenlcaf's Evidence, I. 258, § 200, " with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed,...statements is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own moaning, in the witness... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...received with caution. Taylor says, § 622. " With respect to all vtr&al admissions it may be finally observed, that they ought to be received with great...statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; for either the party himself may have been misinformed, or he may not have clearly expressed his... | |
 | Charles Edwin Wilbour - Trials (Murder) - 1862 - 252 pages
...highest authority which we read — that is Prof. Greenleaf, of Massachusetts. I read from section 200 : "With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be...is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness... | |
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With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake... 
