 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 pages
...belief : for men are generally fo fhort-fighted, as to look to their own private benefit, which is near them, rather than to the good of the world, which...is more remote. Therefore, from the nature of human paffions and actions, there is more reafon to diftruft fuch a biafled teftimony than to believe it.... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1806 - 648 pages
...of belief ; for men are generally so short sighted, as to look at their own private benefit, which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world that is more remote ; therefore, from the nature of human passions and actions, there is more reason... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1815 - 600 pages
...cause of belief; for men are generally so shortsighted as to look at their own private benefit which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world, that is more remote ; therefore, from the nature of human passions and actions, there is more reason... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 1358 pages
...cause of belief ; for men are generally so short-sighted as to look at their own private benefit which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world,...and actions, there is more reason to distrust such biassed testimony, than to believe it." The exclusion of witnesses from interest is much more fre-... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 710 pages
...of belief ; for men are generally so short-sighted, as to look at their own 'private benefit, which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world, which is remote ; therefore, from the nature of human passions and actions, there is more reason to distrust... | |
 | 1851 - 488 pages
...cause of belief; for men are generally so shortsighted as to look at their own private benefit, which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world,...and actions, there is more reason to distrust such biased testimony than to believe it." If the interest of the witness were certain in its nature, he... | |
 | 1851 - 484 pages
...cause of belief; for men are generally so shortsighted as to look at their own private benefit, which is near to them, rather than to the good of the world,...and actions, there is more reason to distrust such biased testimony than to believe it." If the interest of the witness were certain in its nature, he... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 pages
...than to the good of the world, ' which, though on the sum of things really best for the individual,' is more remote; therefore, from the nature of human...passions and actions, there is more reason to distrust The Connecticut statute provides that no person shall be disqualified ^sa witness by reason of interest... | |
 | Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz - 1914 - 996 pages
...than to the good of the world, "which, though on the sum of things really best for the individual," is more remote. Therefore, from the nature of human...and actions, there is more reason to distrust such a biased testimony than to believe it.'72b The rule of incompetency because of interest was more relaxed... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1904 - 798 pages
...than to the good of the world, 'which, though on the sum of things really best for the individual,' is more remote; therefore, from the nature of human...and actions, there is more reason to distrust such a biased testimony than to believe it." Gilbert, Evidence, 223. The rule of incompetency because of interest... | |
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When a man, who is interested in the matter in question, comes to prove it, it is rather a ground for distrust than any just cause of belief; for men are generally so shortsighted as to look at their own private benefit, which is near to them, rather... 