 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1865 - 806 pages
...laid down in the last two sections ; partly of the doctrine, that, as a question of proof, a man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary act.11 If, therefore, one kindles a fire in a stack, situated so that it is likely to communicate,... | |
 | Robert Dewey Benedict, Benjamin Lincoln Benedict - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 624 pages
...debtor to give a preference to the creditor. The intent to prefer is essential ; but every person is to be presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and, if such acts do, in fact, give a preference, it is competent to infer the intent (Denny... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...of consequences, and with a determination or willingness to produce such consequences. Every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary acts. 1 Greenl. End. § 18. Lord Ellenborough, 3 M. & S. 11, 15. Burr. Circ. Evid. 38, 47. INTENDERE.... | |
 | Bankruptcy - 1874 - 742 pages
...debtor to give a preference to the creditor, the intent to prefer is essential ; but every person is to be presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and if ' such acts do in fact give a preference, it is competent to infer the intent. Denny v.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 886 pages
...of the province of the jury. The sixth asserts the familiar principle of the law of evidence, that a man must be presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts, and from it draws the conclusion, " that if • Simpson v. State. man shoots another with a deadly... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 548 pages
...done with an intention to give a preference, The intent to prefer is essential, but every person is to be presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and if such acts do in fact as this do give a very large preference, it is competent for the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1148 pages
...which the jury may naturally and reasonably infer the intent charged. For instance, it is a principle of law that every man must be presumed to Intend the...consequences of his own voluntary and -willful act. So that from the use of a deadly weapon against another the Jury may infer the intent to commit murder,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1168 pages
...the Jury may naturally and reasonably infer the Intent charged. Рог instance, It Is a principle of law that every man must be presumed to intend the...natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary or willful act. So that, from the use of a deadly weapon against another, the jury may infer the Intent... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1172 pages
...which the jury may naturally and reasonably infer the intent charged. For instance, it is a principle of law that every man must be presumed to intend the...natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary or willful act So that from the use of a deadly weapon against another the Jury may infer the intent... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1140 pages
...human life, the Jury may find that he intended murder, for it is a principle of law that every man is presumed to Intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary and willful acts. [4] In order to convict the prisoner of the crime of which he is charged, it Is not only necessary... | |
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For instance, it is a principle of law that every man must be presumed to Intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary... 
