...witnesses. Proviso. Part of former act repealed. as a witness in any suit or proceedings at law or in equity by reason of his or her interest in the event of the same as a party or otherwise, but such interest may be shown for the purpose of affecting his or her...

...vindicatory of the code. Among the most striking rules of the whole code is the one which declares that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action, not applicable, however, to a party to the action, nor to any...

...surrender, unless the same shall be made by deed. By stat. 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, s. 1, which enacts, that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded, by reason of incapacity from crime, or interest, from giving evidence, it is provided that this act shall not render...

...husband cannot, in such a case, be a witness either for or against the wife." By the Code of New York, " No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action." .In White v. Sta/ord, 38 Barbour, 420, the plaintiff called his...

...perjury. 6 G. 4, c. 25, s. 2; 9 G. 4, c. 32, ss. 3, 4. But now, by the stat. 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, s. 1, no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence, either in person, or by deposition, according...

...18Gt> was passed, and notice the broad and sweeping terms in which it is declared in said act that " no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, or from being a party, from giving evidence, either in person or...

...purpose of suppressing truth and increasing litigation, have been abolished. The code declares that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of tlie actisn. This r-ule, however, does not apply to a party to the action,...

...necessary for the purposes of justice in this cause ; and that the Act 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, enacts that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of interest from giving evidence, with the proviso that the Act shall not render competent any party to...

...was completed]. The other point turns on Lord Denman's Act, the 6 & 7 Viet., c. 85, which enacts that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according...

...to the action, nor to any person for whose immediate benefit it is prosecuted or defended. § 352. No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded, by reason of a sentence for felony. The abrogation of the rule, which excludes a witnesss, who has an interest in...