 The true test of the interest of a witness is that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or, that the record will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action. It must be a present, certain...  The New York Supplement - 689 페이지1904전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849
...is, whether he will gain or lose by the direct legal operation of the judgment or decree, or, whether the record will be legal evidence for or against him, in some other action. 1 Greenl. Ev. 458. The fact as to whether there is a real interest, is that which must determine the... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1848
...interest. Clay's Dig. 236, 334. Whereas the interest which renders one incompetent as a witness, " must be a present, certain and vested interest, and not an interest uncertain, remote and contingent." 1 Greenl. Ev. 535, et seq., § 390, 391, 392, 393, and cases cited ; State v. Truss,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847
...witness is, that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation of the judgment, or that lh¿ record will be legal evidence for or against him, in some other, suit. — Bailey vs. liumpkin. 403 . When several defendants are included in the same indictment, and... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848
...interest of a witness is, that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be legal evidence for or against him in some [2.] other action. It must be a present, certain, and rested interest, and not an interest uncertain,... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1848
...the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment in this case, or that the record will be hgal evidence for or against him in some other action. It must be a certain, present, vested interest, and not remote or contingent. If the interest is of a doubtful nature... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852
...interest of a witness is, that he will either gain of lose by the direct and legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be legal...not an interest uncertain, remote, or contingent. If tb* interest be of a doubtful nature, the objection goes to the credit of the witness, and not to... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1852
...legal evidence for, or against him, in some other action, and that the interest to exclude a witness, must be a present, certain, and vested interest, and not an interest uncertain, remote, or contmgent. The complainants have filed their bill in this case, against the administratrix of Alpheus... | |
 | California - 1854
...or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action, but nothing in this, or in the last section, shall prevent a party calling as a witness the adverse... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 871 페이지
...or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment se any two or more have an equal and the highest number of vote but nothing in thi*, or in the last section, shall prevent a party calling as a witness the adverse... | |
 | California, Henry Jacob Labatt - 1858 - 302 페이지
...or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him, in some other action ; but nothing in this, or in the last section, shall prevent a party calling as a witness the adverse... | |
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