Word: hearsay
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Council for the defense, Major Edwin R. Carter, concluded his case by stating that evidence given was nothing more than hearsay and that the trial had been brought up through personal jealousies and should, therefore, be dropped...
...prosecutor pointed out that some of the witnesses for the defense has given testimonies adverse to their case and that the evidence presented was not hearsay but had been substantiated by several witnesses. Because of the time, the trial was concluded without a decision being given...
Thus, from Aztec hearsay, a 16th-century Franciscan friar described the legendary city of Tulsa, capital of Mexico's ancient Toltec empire and once ruled by the bearded emperor Quetzalcoatl...
Other lectures in the series will be: "Conflict of Laws and International Conventions", by Dr. Maria M. Schoch, Friday, February 27, at 4.30 o'clock; "Hearsay and the Proposed Code of Evidence", by Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law and Acting Dean, on Wednesday, March 4, at 4.30 o'clock; "Counsel and Court in Constitutional Law", by Paul A. Freund, Professor of Law, on Wednesday, March 11, at 4.30 o'clock; "Some Aspects, of Statutory Limitation of Liability in Admiralty", by Eldon R. James, Professor of Law and Librarian, Thursday, March 19, at 4.30 o'clock; and "Principles...
...question to an illiterate young Southerner named Wilson Strickland who had migrated west, presumably had fought in the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...