TITLE XII.

Of miscellaneous proceedings and general provisions,

CHAPTER I. Disposition of the real property of infants,

681

681

II. Discovering the death of a person on whose life

an estate depends,

685

III. The collection and remission of fines and forfei-

1640. Several infants included in one application,

1641. Costs limited,

CHAPTER II.

Discovering the death of a person on whose life an estate de-

pends,

SECTION 1641. Application to produce person on whose life

685

CHAPTER HII.

The collection and remission of fines and forfeitures,

SECTION 1647. Orders imposing fines, how made,

1648. Clerk to deliver copy to sheriff,

687

687

687

SECTION 1655. Appeals from final orders in county court,

1656. Manner of the appeal,

690

690

TITLE I. Of the general principles of evidence,

II. Of the kinds and degrees of evidence,

702

713

facts,

1660. Definition of proof,

1661. Definition of law of evidence,

1662. The degree of certainty, required to establish

1663. Four kinds of evidence specified,

696

696, 697

698

698

SECTION 1664. Several degrees of evidence specified,

1665. Original evidence, defined,

699

699

Of the general principles of evidence,

SECTION 1677. One witness sufficient to prove a fact,

1678. Testimony confined to personal knowledge,

1679. Testimony to be in presence of persons, af-

fected,

1680. Witness presumed to speak the truth,

702

702

703

703

703

1681. One person not affected by acts of another,

1682. Declaration of predecessor in title evidence,

1683. Declarations which are part of the transac-

tion,

703

703

704

against his successor in interest,

704

1687. When part of a transaction proved, the whole

is admissable,

704

SECTION 1694. Terms to be construed in their general ac

ceptation,

1695. Written words control those printed in a
blank form,

707

707

1696. Persons skilled may testify to decypher char

acters,

707

1697. Of two constructions, which preferred,
1698. A written instrument construed as under-

708

IV. Material objects presented to the senses, other

SECTION 1705. Certain facts of general notoriety, assumed to

713

713

- 713, 714

1708. All persons capable of perception and commu

nication may be witnesses

714

1709. Persons who cannot testify,

725

1710. Persons in certain relation to parties, prohibited,

726

1711. When privileged persons must testify,

1733. Where parties are to be deemed the same,
1734. What deemed adjuged in a judgment,
1735. Where sureties bound, principal is also,