 | Delaware - 1879 - 884 pages
...actions or proceedings by or against, executors, administrators or guardians in which judgment or decree may be rendered for or against them, neither party...unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party. SECTIOX 2. The provisions of this act shall not apply to anycivil action or proceeding pending at the... | |
 | Jere Baxter - 1879 - 750 pages
..."in actions or proceedings by or against executors, administrators or Spence r. Crockett & Ransom. guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall lie allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator,... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1880 - 928 pages
...excluded " in any civil action, because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators,...party, or required to testify thereto by the court. In all other respects, the laws of the State in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision... | |
 | 1894 - 2072 pages
...the issue tried; provided, tlint. in action's by or against executors, administrators or guardians_ in which judgment may be rendered for or against them,...party or required to testify thereto by the court. In all other respects the laws of the state In which the court is held shall be the rules of decision... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - 1880 - 820 pages
..."In actions or proceedings by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgments may be rendered for or against them, neither party...testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify by the opposite party." T. & S, Rev. Stat., 3813d. We held, two years ago at this place, in the case... | |
 | 1902 - 1128 pages
...color, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried; provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators...neither party shall be allowed to testify against the as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, nnless called to testify... | |
 | 1881 - 956 pages
...direct provision of the act of congress. The next act of congress was that of 1865, which provides — " That in actions by or against executors, administrators,...against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify againt the other as to any transaction with or statement by the testator, intestate, or ward, unless... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis - 1880 - 362 pages
...not be expected to testify as a witness. And, therefore, it makes this very proper provision : "That neither party shall be allowed to testify % against...the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to do so by the opposite party or required to do so by the court." Precisely what is meant by being "... | |
 | 1896 - 2118 pages
...provided (so far as affects the present case) "that in actions by * * * administrators • • • neither party shall be allowed to testify against...other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the * * * intestate." This section is the whole law of the matter, and no state statute can, for this court,... | |
 | 1904 - 1108 pages
...* * In any civil action because he Is a party to or Interested in the issue to be tried: provided, that In actions by or against executors, administrators...guardians in which judgment may be rendered for or against tliem neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with or statement... | |
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That in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate... 
