INTEREST,

Declarations of deceased persons against their, 577.

Incompetency from, 151, 180.

Abolished, 186, 187.

INTERLINEATIONS, 291.

INTERNATIONAL LAW,

Presumptions in, 488-490.

INTERPRETER,

Communications to, when privileged from disclosure, 689.
INTERROGATION,

Of witnesses, rules for conducting the, 734-747.

Of accused persons on the continent, 634.

Arguments in favour of judicial interrogation, 637.
against it, 637.

Is charged with the general conduct of the proceedings, 96.
Determines all questions of law and practice, 96, 707.
the admissibility of evidence, 96.

Decides facts on which admissibility of evidence depends, 98, 707.
if there is any evidence for the jury, 97.

JUDGE AT TRIAL-(continued.)

Sums the case up to the jury, 96.

May put questions to witnesses, 707.
And inspect media of proof, 707.

May be a witness, 245, 246.

His notes not evidence, 281.

In what sense counsel for accused persons, 709.
Errors of, how rectified, 97, 731.

Bound by the rules of evidence, 148, 705, but

Has a discretion with reference to rules of practice respecting, 105, 148,

and law so far as finding general verdicts, 98.
Cannot find on their personal knowledge of the matter before them,

32, 108, 244, 245.

May use their general knowledge, 245.

May put questions to witnesses, 707.

May inspect media of proof, 707.

Formerly witnesses, 153.

Gradual change in their functions, 153.

Bound by the rules of law, 96, 97, 104, 148.

and the rules of evidence, 94, 96, 148.

and by those regulating the burden of
proof, 403, 404.

Belief of, in certain cases, 463.

New trial granted for misconduct or mistake of, 97, 401.

JUSTICE,

Is either expletive or attributive, 29.

KEEPER OF RECORD,

May speak to their condition, but not to their contents, 281, 597.

KNOWLEDGE,

Original and proper sense, 5.

Three kinds of-intuitive, demonstrative, sensitive, 5, 6.
Secondary sense, 6.

LAMPS, 310.

LARCENY,

LAW,

Presumption of guilt in, from possession of the stolen property, 265—

270.

To number of witnesses in the laws of some countries, 47.

LIS MOTA, 575.

LIVING,

Proofs, 272.

Memory, 431, 433.

LOAN,

Presumption against, 468.

LOST DOCUMENT,

Secondary evidence of, may be given, 556.

Presumed to have been duly stamped, 293, 427.

LUNATIC,

Self-disserving statements by, 608.

Competency of, to give evidence, 188-196.

MALICE,

Presumption of, from slaying, 499.

MARITIME LAW,

Presumptions in, 490-492.

MARK, proof of, 297.

MARRIAGE,

Presumption of, from acknowledgment, cohabitation, and reputation,

417.

Registers, 157, 565.

Foreign, 489.

MATTERS,

Judicially noticed, 320, 321.

Deemed notorious, 320, 322.

Of record, estoppel by, 616.

In pais, estoppel by, 616, 618.

MEANS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF COMMITTING AN OFFENCE,

Presumption of guilt from, 518.

MEDIA OF PROOF,

The exacting several, a mode of guarding against misdecision, 73. See
QUANTITY OF EVIDENCE.

MEDICAL MEN,

Communications to, not privileged from disclosure, 690.

MEMORANDA,

To refresh the memory of witnesses, 283, 284.

MEMORY,

Living, 431, 433.

Legal, 431.

Of witnesses, 18.

MENACE,

Instruments obtained by, void, 288. See THREATS.

MENDACITY, in report,

An infirmative hypothesis applicable to extrajudicial confessions,

650.

MILITARY DUTY,

False confessions to escape from, 647.
MISINTERPRETATION,

An infirmative hypothesis applicable to extrajudicial confessions, 650.
MISPRISION OF TREASON,

MODUS DECIMANDI,

Presumption of, 433, 450-455.

MOHAMMEDAN LAW, as to the competency of witnesses, 70, 71.

MONOMANIA, 190-194.

MORAL,

Evidence, 27.

Sanction of truth, 13.

Certainty, 6, 114, 503.

of guilt required in criminal cases, 114, 503.

Presumptions derived from the course of nature, 464, 467.

MORAVIANS,

Affirmation of, receivable, 216, 217.

MOSAIC LAW,

Examination of, relating to a plurality of witnesses, 657-660, 679,