 | United States - 1851 - 598 pages
...commissioners, after careful consideration of the subject. These exceptions they allow, because "it is the policy of the law to encourage confidence, and to preserve it inviolate." In receiving the testimony of the party and those interested, it seems to us that the commissioners... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 508 pages
...commissioners, after careful consideration of the subject. These exceptions they allow, because " it is the policy of the law to encourage confidence, and to preserve it inviolate." In receiving the testimony of the party and those interested, it seems to us that the commissioners,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 772 pages
...17. Under 3 How. Stat. § 7546, which provides that " a husband shall not be examined as a witness for or against his wife without her consent, nor a wife for or against her husband STATUTES CONSTRUED — Continued. without his consent," except in certain cases, a wife, when garnished... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 934 pages
..." ' Gr. Ev., § 340, in great part. 7 Under § 1710, clause 1, of the New York Code of Civ. Proc., "A husband cannot be examined, for or against his wife, without her consent, sible to give evidence against her husband even with his consent;' and this opinion has been followed... | |
 | Michigan - Law - 1861 - 702 pages
...said section shall read as follows: Sec. 4342. A husband shall not be examined as a witness wheohu.for or against his wife, without her consent, nor a wife for or on'n against her husband, without his consent; nor shall either, during the marriage or afterwards,... | |
 | Michigan - Law - 1869 - 608 pages
...follows: wiwn has- Sec. 4342. A husband shall not be ezamined as a witness, for hend or wife omnot tee- or against his wife, without her consent; nor a wife, for or tiOM. against her husband, without his consent, except in cases where the husband or wife shall be... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 774 pages
...which a white person Is a party. Subdivision 2.— 10 Cal. 66. $ 1881. ($$ 395, 396, 397, 398, 399.) There are particular relations in which it is the...inviolate ; therefore, a person cannot be examined us a witness in the following cases : 1. A husband cannot be examined for or against bis wife, without... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1876 - 888 pages
...2.— 10 Cal. 66. $ 1881. {$$ 395, 396, 397, 398, 399.) There are particular relations in which it ia the policy of the law to encourage confidence and to preserve it iuviolate ; therefore, a person cannot be examined as a witness in the following cases : 1. A husband... | |
 | Montana (Ter.) - Law - 1877 - 956 pages
...a felony, unless pardoned by the governor, or such judgment has been reversed on appeal. SEC. 629. There are particular relations in which it is the...cannot be examined as a witness in the following cases : First. A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife without her consent, nor a wife for or... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 712 pages
...3414, subd. 4 [Comp. Laws 1917, section 7124]), which, as far as material here, reads as follows : "There are particular relations in which it is the...cannot be examined as a witness In the following cases: * * * "(4) A physician or surgeon cannot, without the consent of his patient, be examined in a civil... | |
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There are particular relations in which it is the policy of the law to encourage confidence and to preserve it inviolate... 
