 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Criminal law - 1912 - 792 pages
...Tex. Cr. App. 34. An elementary rule governing the introduction of evidence is that which requires the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible. This rule does not demand the greatest amount of evidence which can possibly be given of any fact,... | |
 | Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz - Evidence (Law) - 1913 - 1090 pages
...our own courts have said upon the subject. The rule is elementary which requires the production of the best evidence of which the case, in its nature, is susceptible. The rule does not demand the greatest amount of evidence which can be given on the litigated fact;... | |
 | Alberta. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 584 pages
...box. It is contended that these are presumptions which furnish an exception to the general rule that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible should always be produced. These presumptions are apparently in the same class as those in which secondary... | |
 | National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners - Railroads - 1915 - 186 pages
...Evidence," it is said: "In this matter, as in all other inquiries, the facts should be established by the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible. What may be the best evidence on one railroad or part of line may have little weight on another. As... | |
 | Thomas Hall Shastid - Eye - 1916 - 172 pages
...prevailing rule, however, should be in accordance with that general principle of evidence, which "requires the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible. " 1 A general practitioner cannot give the "best" evidence regarding injuries to, or diseases of, special... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 884 pages
...exception to the general rule of evidence which excludes hearsay, and, while the cardinal rule that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible must always be produced still holds good, direct evidence of the facts is not always required. Family... | |
 | Hyacinthe Besson Spinelli - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1917 - 80 pages
...the party who substantially asserts the affirmative of the issue. 101 Q. What is the fourth rule? A. The best evidence of which the case, in its nature, is susceptible must always be produced. 102 Q. Give three of the rules most likely to be of value to the military... | |
 | Harry Franklin Covington - Debates and debating - 1918 - 312 pages
...assistance in the discovery and explanation of details. In connection with the legal rule that only "the best^ evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible 'L is to be admitted into a court of law, (3) documentary evidence has been divided into primary and... | |
 | William W. Potter - Evidence (Law) - 1920 - 1074 pages
...General. — The profession generally recognizes the so called "Best Evidence" rule ;l that is, that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible shall be produced.2 This rule has been vigorously assailed by Thayer3 and by Wigmore,4 and, in this... | |
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It is an elementary principle of the law of evidence that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible... 
