CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 573

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" in actions for adultery

indictments.

"strict.

and

4 for bigamy, where + proof of marriage is "required, general reputation)

" is admissible to establish

" the fact of parties being "married. Teneral evidence

of reputations in this neighborhood, even when unsupported by "facts, will be receivable

in

~ proof of marriage, and,

in one case, it was decided, "after verdict, that the uncorrobor.

"ated statements

ement of a single witness

to be

"who did not appear "related to the parties, or to " live near them, or to know

"them intimately, but who

asserted that he had heard.

"that they were married,

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" was

as sufficient prima facie,

" to warrant the

سند

"finding the marriage, the. " adverse party not having

"crossexamined the witness, "nor controverted, the fact by proof. Upon soment similar grounds it hasbeen held that on a question " whether as libellous painting " was meant to represent a

" certain individual, the "declarations of spectators while looking at the picture

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