Preliminary Treatise on Evidence: At the Common Law (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Preliminary Treatise on Evidence: At the Common LawTrue character and value of the law of evidence - Needs restate ment - Summary Statement of it. - Its principles few, but its rules many and perplexed - Much of it is really a mistaken expression of doctrines of the substantive law. - Illustrations Of this - Excluding rules. - Relevancy. - Rules of evidence which put forward non-legal standards. Hearsay, and the exceptions to it. Other leading rules. Defects in this part of the law. - The administration of it. - Need of extruding foreign matter from the law of evidence, and of simplifying it. - Need of legislation, and of judicial action, to the end of dealing with evidence by rules of court. Governing principles to be applied in doing this. The jury. Discretion of the judges.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.