 | Charles Lucas - 1785 - 370 pages
...the Law fuppofeth them thence to have fufficient Knowlege to try the Matter in iffue, (and fo they muft) though no Evidence were given on either Side...the Judge is a Stranger, and he knows no more of the Fa£l, than he has learned in Court, and perhaps by falfe Depofitionsj andconfequently, knows nothing.... | |
 | George Worthington - Jury - 1840 - 72 pages
...law supposetn them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in court; but to this evidence the judge 'is a stranger. They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured, and sometimes... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1879 - 814 pages
...sufficient knowledge to try tinmatter in issue (and so they must), though no evidence were given on eitJier side in Court; but to this evidence the Judge is a stranger." In the Mayor of Devizes v. Clark* the question was not whether the jury were justified in finding a... | |
 | Burr W. Jones - Civil procedure - 1896 - 718 pages
...law supposed them to have knowledge of and capacity to try the Matter in Issue (and so they must), though no Evidence were given on either side in court; but to this the Judge is a Stranger, ie , he cannot Judge without evidence though the Jury may. " ' But this is... | |
 | Common law - 1904 - 412 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in court, but to this evidence the judge is stranger. 2. They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured,... | |
 | Edward Wilcox Hinton - Evidence (Law) - 1919 - 1136 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must), though no evidence were given on either side in court; but to this evidence the judge is a stranger. 2. They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured, and sometimes... | |
 | James Patterson McBaine - Civil procedure - 1927 - 1074 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in Court, but to this evidence the Judge is a stranger. 3. The jury may know the witnesses to be stigmatiz'd and infamous, which may be unknown to the parties,... | |
 | Sir David Lindsay Keir, Frederick Henry Lawson - Constitutional law - 1928 - 520 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in court, but to this evidence the judge is a stranger. 2. They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured, and sometimes... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - Constitutional history - 1904 - 478 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in court,...but to this evidence the judge is a stranger. (2) They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured, and sometimes... | |
 | J. P. Kenyon - History - 1986 - 504 pages
...law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must) though no evidence were given on either side in court; but to this evidence the judge is a stranger. 2. They may have evidence from their own personal knowledge, by which they may be assured, and sometimes... | |
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Being returned of the vicinage whence the cause of action ariseth, the law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must), though no evidence were given on either side in court; but to this evidence the... 
