 | Canada - 1921 - 804 pages
...Juvenile Courts have been created. Judge, justice or oiher presiding officer, as the case may be, sucii child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth. 2. No case shall be decided upon such evidence alone, and such evidence must be corroborated by some... | |
 | Great Britain, Frederick Mead, Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin (K.C.B.) - Criminal law - 1885 - 146 pages
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | T. Hastings Lees, Thomas Orde Lees - Criminal law - 1885 - 580 pages
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate and, as the Society regards them, natural and splendid... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender • years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate and, as the Society regards them, natural and splendid... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1886 - 60 pages
...the opinion of the court or justices, as the case may be, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...understands the duty of speaking the truth." * And the judges have been surprised at the immediate, and, as the Society regards them, natural and splendid... | |
 | Sir Charles Stewart Loch - Charities - 1890 - 224 pages
...understand the naure of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child...the evidence of such child, though not given on oath or affirmation, but otherwise taken and reduced into writing, in accordance with the provisions of... | |
 | Gibraltar, Robert Ffrench Sheriff - Law - 1890 - 840 pages
...though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the Court, such girl or other child of tender years is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify...evidence, and understands the duty of speaking the truth : Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1890 - 498 pages
...be trusted, and therefore ought not to be received. He might adopt the view that where a child is ' of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth,' the child's evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth ; this seems... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 692 pages
...he trusted, and therefore ought not to 1* received. He might adopt the view that where a child iq " of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the speaking of truth," the child's evidence should be received and taken for what it is worth : this seems... | |
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... does not in the opinion of the Court, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception... 
