 | Law - 1863 - 788 pages
...will tend to place the witness in peril. " Further than this, we are of opinion that the danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with reference...and barely possible contingency, so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct. We think that a merely remote and naked... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1846 - 734 pages
...be real Pardon— and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in •B»""(i <° the ordinary course of things, not a danger of an...and barely possible contingency, so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct. We think that a, merely remote and naked... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1865 - 680 pages
...latitude should be allowed to him in judging of the effect of any particular question. The danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with reference...operation of law, in the ordinary course of things, and not a danger of imaginary character, having reference to some barely possible contingency. Reg.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 780 pages
...opinion that the danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with Opinion of the Court. 244 US reference to the ordinary operation of law in the...and barely possible contingency, so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct. We think that a merely remote and naked... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 866 pages
...probable danger, with reference to the ordinary operations of the law in the ordinary courts, but " a danger of an imaginary and unsubstantial character,...and barely possible contingency, so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct." Such dangers it was never the object of... | |
 | Peter Benson Maxwell - Justices of the peace - 1871 - 382 pages
...is allowed to him in judging for himself of the effect of any particular question. The danger, too, must be real and appreciable with reference to the...operation of law in the ordinary course of things, not a remote possibility out of the ordinary course of law, and such as would not influence a reasonable... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fisher - Criminal law - 1871 - 722 pages
...latitude should be allowed to him in judging of the effect of any particular question. The danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with reference...operation of law, in the ordinary course of things, and not a danger of an imaginary character, having reference to some barely possible contingency. Ib.... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...Evans, 11 CB NS 377 (103 ECLR). • 11 Ves. 525. fied, that the danger to be apprehended by the witness must be " real and appreciable with reference to the...and barely possible contingency, so improbable that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence bis conduct," for such a possibility should not be suffered... | |
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Further than this, we are of opinion that the danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the ordinary course of things — not a danger of an imaginary and unsubstantial character, having... 
