A Manual of medical jurisprudence

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Henry C. Lea., 1873 - 879 pages
 

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Page 33 - That they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.
Page 638 - And be it further enacted, that no will made by any person under the age of twenty-one years shall be valid. VIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that no will made by any married woman shall be valid, except such a will as might have been made by a married woman before the passing of this Act.
Page 852 - The insured need not mention what the underwriter ought to know, •what he takes upon himself the knowledge of, or what he waives being informed of.
Page 40 - ... which he is peculiarly conversant from the nature of his employment in life. The former is bound, as a matter of public duty, to speak to a fact which happens to have fallen within his own knowledge — without such testimony the course of justice must be stopped.
Page 540 - ... whosoever with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman whether she be or be not with child shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing...
Page 791 - The doctrine which acknowledges this mania is dangerous iu its relations, and can be recognized only in the clearest cases. It ought to be shown to have been habitual, or at least to have evinced itself in more than a single instance.
Page 82 - That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing so as thereby to endanger the life of such person, or so as thereby to inflict upon such person any grievous bodily harm, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be.
Page 33 - ... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declaration, (a) The affidavits were rejected.
Page 791 - There may be an unseen ligament pressing on the mind, drawing it to consequences which it sees, but cannot avoid, and placing it under a coercion, which, while its results are clearly perceived, is incapable of resistance.
Page 700 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an Imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, or by simple Imprisonment, not exceeding two years,

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