 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against, each other c : partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent ; but principally because of the union of person : and therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1809 - 220 pages
...her husband ; and so, vice versa, a husband for or against the wife ; partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent, but principally because of the union of person : And therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...indicted and punished separately ; for the union is only a civil union. But in trials of any sort they are not allowed to be evidence for or against each other ; partly because it is impossible their testimony should be yj'-? different, but principally because of the union of persons. • But... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...indicted ami punished separately ; for the union is only a civil union. But, in trials of any sort, they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against each other : partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent; but principally because of the union of person. But, where the... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...they are not allowed to be evidence for or against, each other c : partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent ; but principally because of the union of person '. and therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...they are not allowed to be evidence for or against, each other c : partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent ; but principally because of the union of person : and therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...of any sort, they are not allowed to be evidence for or against each other, because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent ; but principally because of the union of persons." Now, beloved, to sum up the subject — at any rate, for the present — can anything, we ask, be more... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...unreasonable if she had no remedy, or could make no defence at all. 6. But in trials of any sort they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against, each other ; partly, because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent; but principally because of the union of person ; and, therefore,... | |
 | Law - 1836 - 544 pages
...allowed to be evidence for or against each other * * * principally because of the union of person ; and therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict one maxim of law, " n?,mo in propria causa testis esse dcbet : " and if against each other, they would... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...indited and punished separately, for the union is only a civil union. But in trials of any sort, they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against eac.h...should be indifferent, but principally because of their union of person. But where the offence is directly against the person of the wife, this rule... | |
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But in trials of any sort they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against, each other: partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent, but principally because of the union of person; and therefore, if they were admitted to be... 
