 | T. Hastings Lees, Thomas Orde Lees - 1885 - 580 pàgines
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | Great Britain, Frederick Mead, Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin (K.C.B.) - 1885 - 146 pàgines
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1886 - 918 pàgines
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | 1886 - 922 pàgines
...opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender • years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...reception of the evidence, and understands the duty of speakii: truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate and, as the Society regards... | |
 | 1890 - 634 pàgines
...the opinion of the Court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth." There follows a proviso requiring corroborative evidence implicating the accused. Although it does... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1890 - 920 pàgines
...the opinion of the court or justices, aa the case may be, such girl or other child of teudor yenrs is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | 1890 - 692 pàgines
...he trusted, and therefore ought not to i* received. He might adopt the view that where a child is " of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth," the childs evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth: this seems... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1890 - 498 pàgines
...be trusted, and therefore ought not to be received. He might adopt the view that where a child is ' of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth,' the child's evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth ; this seems... | |
 | Thomas Brett - 1891 - 822 pàgines
...though not given upon oath, if in the opinion of the Court or justices, as the case may be, the witness is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth. The reception of the evidence so admitted is however hedged in by two safeguards : (I.) No person shall... | |
 | Sidney Lovell Phipson - 1892 - 530 pàgines
...when the Court is satisfied that such children " do not understand the nature of an oath," but are " possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and to understand the duty of speaking the truth." Such testimony, however, must be corroborated, and is... | |
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such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth. And the evidence of such child, though not given on oath or affirmation, but otherwise taken and reduced into... 
