 | Theodore Thring, Charles Edwin Gifford - 1877 - 584 σελίδες
...rule of practice, which a court. martial would do well in following under similar circumstances. "A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge,... | |
 | George Pitt-Lewis - 1880 - 1064 σελίδες
...betraying the party who has called him is further provided for by the following enactment : — " A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge,... | |
 | California - 1880 - 864 σελίδες
...testimony, sec. 21)44: stopping one's own witness, 36 Cal. 223. g 2049. The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he шау contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that ho has made at other times statements... | |
 | Florida - 1881 - 1354 σελίδες
...the case does not from its nature disclose the existence of other and better evidence. (o) SEC. 26. A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness prove adverse, contradict him by... | |
 | Frederick James Smith - 1882 - 730 σελίδες
...sec. 22, which set at rest a question which had for many wjtn years agitated Westminster Hall. " A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he m.iy, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1883 - 706 σελίδες
...time. This question has been settled in England by the act referred to, whereby it is enacted that " a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character ; but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge,... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes, Thomas A. Nelham - 1883 - 474 σελίδες
...sect. 22 of the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Viet. c. 125), which enacts as follows:— A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge... | |
 | Saint Vincent - 1884 - 480 σελίδες
...right of reply and practice and course of proceedings save as hereby altered shall be as at present. A party producing a Witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the Witness shall in the opinion of the Judge... | |
 | 1918 - 1214 σελίδες
...general evidence of bad moral character not restricted to his reputation for truth and veraci ty ; but a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad moral character, but in case the witness, in the opinion of the judge, proves... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - 880 σελίδες
...time. This question has been settled in England by the act referred to, whereby it enacted that ' ' a party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character; but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge,... | |
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A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall in the opinion of the judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the judge,... 
