Author: Pitt Taylor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780484329033

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland, Vol. 2 of 3: With Illustrations From Scotch, Indian, American and Other Legal Systems 554. The first degree of evidence, and that which, though open to error and misconception, is obviously most satisfactory to the mind, is afforded by our own senses.l Believe half what you yourself see, and a twentieth part of what you hear from others, is a maxim, founded in the main upon the experience of life, marking the vast distinction that obtains between a knowledge of facts derived from actual perception, and the belief of the existence of facts resting on information. In judicial proceedings, the judge or jury can seldom act entirely upon evidence of this description.2 In a vast number of instances, however, especially where the fact in dispute is sought to be proved by circumstantial evidence, the verdict will rest materially upon matter submitted to the ocular inspection of the jury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.