The Principles Of The Law Of Evidence With Elementary Rules For Conducting The Examination And Cross Examination Of Witnesses Volume 1

Author : W. M. Best
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ISBN 13 : 9781330557303
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Principles of the Law of Evidence, Vol. 1 of 2 written by W. M. Best and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Principles of the Law of Evidence, Vol. 1 of 2: With Elementary Rules for Conducting the Examination and Cross-Examination of Witnesses The common-law system of evidence, in its actual state the growth of the last two centuries, must ever claim the highest respect and admiration as a whole, however particular portions of it may be justly or unjustly condemned. Now the design of the present work is not to add to the practical treatises by which the subject has been illustrated, but to examine the principles on which its rules are founded, tracing them to their sources, and showing their connection with each other. To this are annexed a sketch of the practice relative to the offering and receiving evidence at trials, and a few elementary precepts, founded chiefly on those of Quintilian, for the guidance of young practitioners in interrogating witnesses. Throughout the book, particularly in the Introduction, when treating of judicial evidence in the abstract, much assistance has been derived from the Roman law, the civilians, and other foreign writers; and especially from the able work published by M. Bonnier, at Paris, in 1843, entitled "Traite Theorique et Pratique des Preuves en Droit Civil et en Droit Criminel." Large use has also been made of "Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence," in five volumes, London, 1827, in which the general principles of evidence are ably discussed, and often happily illustrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."