 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1873 - 640 pages
...beyond question or doubt. "Js'o person," the language is, " shall be disqualified as a witness in any suit or proceeding at law or in equity by reason of his or her interest in the event of the same, as a party or otherwise." Whoever before the statute could... | |
 | William Wirt Virgin - Civil procedure - 1874 - 672 pages
...pains and penalties of perjury.2 3. No person shall be excused or excluded from being a witness in any civil suit or proceeding at law, or in equity,...shown for the purpose of affecting his credibility ; and the husband or wife of either party may be a witness.3 («) Parties being witnesses must testify... | |
 | Daniel Roberts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 906 pages
...Lincoln, 29 Vt. 206. 125. Stat. 1852. (QS c. 36, s. 24.) "No person shall be disqualified as a witness in any civil suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, by reason of his interest in the event of the same, as a party or otherwise." This statute does not remove the incompetency arising from a... | |
 | Great Britain, Frank Bolles - Law - 1880 - 140 pages
...pains and penalties of perjury. § 82. No person shall be excused or excluded from being a witness in any civil suit or proceeding at law, or in equity,...shown for the purpose of affecting his credibility ; and the husband or wife of either party may be a witness when either is called to testify with the... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1881 - 786 pages
...subject to exceptions here immaterial, " no person shall be excused or excluded from being a witness in any civil suit or proceeding at law or in equity, by reason of his interest in the event of the same, as party or otherwise ;" and this was held not to make the libellantfor divorce a competent... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Children - 1882 - 1000 pages
...Iowa R. 19.) The statute of Missouri provides that " no person shall be disqualified as a witness in any civil suit or proceeding at law or in equity, by reason of his interest in the event of the same, as a party or otherwise " (2 Wagner's Stat. 1372, § 1.) Under this statute it lias been... | |
 | New Hampshire. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 728 pages
...Scott Sloane, for the defendant. PARSONS, J. "No person shall be excused or excluded as a witness, in any civil suit or proceeding at law or in equity, by reason of interest in the event of the same as a party or otherwise." Laws 1857, c. 1952, s. I ; PS, c. 224,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1168 pages
...Interest in the event of a suit, as a party or otherwise, does not disqualify a person as a witness, but such interest may be shown for the purpose of affecting his credibility. That test, when applied, must extend to all witnesses alike who are Interested, either as parties,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1102 pages
...civil suit or proceeding at law, or in equity, including special proceedings before courts of probate, by reason of his interest in the event thereof as party or otherwise, except at the time of trial, the party prosecuting or the party defending, or any one of them, as an executor... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 948 pages
...civil suit or proceeding -at law or in equity (including special proceedings before courts of probate) by reason of his interest in the event thereof, as party or otherwise, except, at the time of trial, the party prosecuting or the party defending, or any one of them, is an executor... | |
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No person shall be disqualified as a witness in any suit or proceeding at law or in equity, by reason of his interest in the event of the same, as a party or otherwise, or by reason of his conviction of a crime ; but such interest or conviction may be... 
