Excerpt from The Following Sheets Are From the Seventh Edition of Dr. Francis Wharton's Treatise on Criminal Law, Now in the Press: VIII. Circumstantial EvidenceTo the same effect is the language of Chief Justice Whitman, of Maine. Circumstantial evidence, he said, is often stronger and more satisfac tory than direct, because it is not lia ble to delusion or fraud. ...
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be ...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be ...
Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Rev. H. W. Lee, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Iowa, on the Present Condition of the Domestic Missions of the Protestant Episcopal ChurchShe has declared heiself not merely a Missionary Church, but a Church for Missions. Whatever service it may be necessary to adopt, in order to introduce God's word into ...
Excerpt from A Monograph on Mental UnsoundnessEnglish R. 486, 9 Wells, H. And G. 309. Mitchell v. Kingman, 5 Pick. 431, Rice Peet, 13 Johns. 543, Grant Thompson, 4 Connect. 103, Long Whidden, 2 N. H. 435, Fitzgerald Reed, 9 Sm. Man, Ceaver v. Phelps, 11 Pick. 304. (h) Beals See, 10 Barr, 56. L) Desilver's Est. 5 Rawle, 11 ...
Excerpt from Involuntary Confessions: A MonographThis con¿ict between the true and false arises in all cases where guilt is attempted to be screened by human contrivance. The mind involuntarily becomes its own prosecutor. It drops at each point evidence to prove its guilt. Each statement that it makes - each subterfuge to which it resorts each pretext it suggests - ...
Excerpt from Disputed Questions of Evidence: Relevancy, Presumptions of Law and Presumptions of Fact Note. - The above paragraph (as well as several others in the course of this article) is taken from the work on Evidence to which I have referred.'condition of the hypothesis of corruption, that Mr. Wells took money, or offered to take money, for his action ...
Excerpt from The Silence of Scripture The following pages include the substance of a series of sermons delivered in the usual parochial service at Brookline. My object, for the purposes of the pulpit, was to notice the practical inferences to be drawn from the Silence of Scripture, in some of those instances in which this Silence is most marked. Although ...
Excerpt from A Willing Reunion Not Impossible: A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached at St. Paul's, Brookline, November 26, 1863 It is the usage of the divine Word to speak of God's mystery as the believer's peace. Concealment, we are told, is a part of the glory of God, and the very darkness, therefore, in which our path may be enfolded, leads ...
Excerpt from Liability of Master to Servant The law of master and servant has been recently the subject of careful and protracted examination by a committee of the English House of Commons. A master, such is the way in which the law is stated, is not liable to his servants for such injuries received by the latter as are incidental ...
