A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and Duties of a Justice of the PeaceT. & T. Clark, 1880 - 884 pages |
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... judge or jury , and his testimony must always be supported by other and credible witnesses . A witness is not bound to give evidence of his own turpitude , even though freed from the penal consequences ; and so he cannot be committed ...
... judge or jury , and his testimony must always be supported by other and credible witnesses . A witness is not bound to give evidence of his own turpitude , even though freed from the penal consequences ; and so he cannot be committed ...
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... judge of the effect , but only , in the first instance , of the competency of the evidence , and that the effect of any part of the proof may not be fully seen until taken in connection with the whole ; and that a party has the right to ...
... judge of the effect , but only , in the first instance , of the competency of the evidence , and that the effect of any part of the proof may not be fully seen until taken in connection with the whole ; and that a party has the right to ...
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... judge , or other presiding officer or person qualified to take affidavits or depositions , upon being satisfied of the sincerity of such objection , to permit such person , instead of being sworn , to make his or her solemn affirmation ...
... judge , or other presiding officer or person qualified to take affidavits or depositions , upon being satisfied of the sincerity of such objection , to permit such person , instead of being sworn , to make his or her solemn affirmation ...
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... judge , but which cannot extend to a capital sentence . Where the charge implies a capital punishment , the public prosecutor must restrict the libel to an arbitrary punishment , to relieve the judge from the duty of pronouncing the ...
... judge , but which cannot extend to a capital sentence . Where the charge implies a capital punishment , the public prosecutor must restrict the libel to an arbitrary punishment , to relieve the judge from the duty of pronouncing the ...
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... judge advises the magistrates of royal burghs - similar to recorder in English corporate towns . The clerks of ... judges of both fact and law , and subscribe the inter- locutors . ASSETS - The estate and effects of every kind answerable ...
... judge advises the magistrates of royal burghs - similar to recorder in English corporate towns . The clerks of ... judges of both fact and law , and subscribe the inter- locutors . ASSETS - The estate and effects of every kind answerable ...
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Page 582 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Page 582 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 21 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits;' and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 476 - ... and other payments, according to the time which shall have elapsed from the commencement or last period of payment thereof respectively (as the case may be), including the day of the death of such person, or of the determination of his or her interest...
Page 449 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post...
Page 312 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 3 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!
Page 526 - You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence. So help you God.
Page 281 - In this act the following words and expressions shall have the meanings in this section assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; (that is to say), "The expression 'Bill of Sale...
Page 3 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...