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Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence.
From the Introduction. There is no branch of legal knowledge which is of more general utility, than that which regards the rules of evidence. The first point in every trial, is to establish the facts of the case; for he who fails in his proof, fails in everything. Although the jurists hold the law to be always fixed and certain, yet the discovery of the fact, they say, may deceive the most skillful. No work has as yet appeared in the English language on the theory of evidence; and the nature of circumstantial evidence has been still less inquired into. The object of the present Essay is to inquire into some of the more general principles of legal proof, and particularly into that species of ...
Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence; With an Introduction on the Theory of Presumptive Proof
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Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence
Excerpt from Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence: With an Introduction on the Theory of Presumptive Proof Evidence and proof are often confounded, as implying the same idea; but they differ, as cause and effect. Proof is the legal credence which the law gives to any statement, by witnesses or writings; evidence is the legal process by which that proof is made. Hence, we say, that the law admits of no proof but such as is made agreeably to its own principles. The principles of evidence are founded on our observations on human conduct, on common life, and living manners: they are not just because they. Are rules of law; but they are rules of law because they are just and reasonable. About ...
