VIEW: adjournment of the court for a, not often necessary, p. 15. not to affect previous provisions as to, (58), p. 44. applications of previous provisions as to, to apply to order for VIEWERS: sheriff to deliver to either party the names of, p. 44. and to return their reasons to the associate, p, 44. VIVA VOCE: examination of witnesses by order of the court or judge (46), p. 34. WARRANTS OF ATTORNEY: must be attested, p. 22. WARRANT OF CITATION IN SCOTLAND: to compel attendance of witnesses, p. 77. WILLS: attesting witnesses necessary to the validity of, p. 22. WITNESSES: attendance of before arbitration, rules and enactments respecting affirmation instead of oath to be made by, if unwilling to be penalty on, for making false statements (21), p. 16. proof of contradictory statements of adverse (23), pp. 18, 19. proof of previous conviction of (25), pp. 20, 21. attesting, need not be called in certain cases (26), p. 22. comparison by, if disputed with genuine writing (27), p. 23. WITNESSES-continued. examination of person refusing to make affidavit (48), p. 36. oral examination of parties omitting to answer written inter- proceedings thereon (54), p. 43. depositions upon such examinations to be returned to master's examiner may make special report to the court (56), p. 43. inspection of real or personal property by (58), p. 44. compelling the attendance of, p. 77. power to courts of law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to statement to be made at the foot of writ that it is issued by punishment of witnesses making default, p. 78. persons not to be punished if insufficient sum tendered for Act not to prevent the issuing of a commission to examine nor to affect the admissibility of evidence where now WRITING: Comparison of disputed with genuine, may be made by wit- WRITS: forms of new or altered, may be framed by the judges Of Execution: not to be in force for more than six months (94), p. 65. WRITS-continued. Of Subpæna: to compel attendance of witnesses, power to courts of common WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS: comparison of disputed with genuine, by witnesses and jury WRITTEN INTERROGATORIES: delivery of to the opposite party (51), p, 41. WRITTEN STATEMENT: Cross-examination of a witness as to, without producing it LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET. 66 "Now for the Laws of England (if I shall speak my opinion of them "without partiality either to my profession or country), for the matter "and nature of them, I hold them wise, just and moderate laws: they give to God, they give to Cæsar, they give to the subject what apper"taineth. It is true they are as mixt as our language, compounded of "British, Saxon, Danish, Norman customs. And surely as our language "is thereby so much the richer, so our laws are likewise by that mixture "the more complete."-LORD BACON. LONDON: 7, FLEET STREET. 1854. Page BURCHELL and KENNEDY'S Joint Stock Companies Act CLARK'S House of Lords Reports COOPER'S Chancery Acts and Orders Chancery Cases and Dicta COOTE'S Ecclesiastical Practice STEPHEN'S New Commentaries on the Laws of England 5 |