| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1860 - 692 pages
...(article 38,) and in that of 1822, (article 7, § 3.) The only change is the additional clause, that no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. This historical investigation establishes, as I think, beyond doubt, that there has never been a period... | |
| California - Session laws - 1863 - 908 pages
...without diacrimiafttion or preference, shall forever bo allowed in this State; and no person shall bo rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of...conscience, hereby secured, shall not be so construed us to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of... | |
| California, Theodore Henry Hittell - Law - 1865 - 662 pages
...profession and wi without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State ;(') a opiiii matters of religious belief ;(d) but the liberty of conscience, hereby secured, sh be so construed... | |
| Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Cemeteries - 1866 - 568 pages
...without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed," in the State, "to all mankind;" and that "no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief." This declaration, however, is made with the express reservation that the liberty of conscience thereby... | |
| Nevada. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1866 - 980 pages
...without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State; and no person uluill be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious bulief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of... | |
| Nevada. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1866 - 972 pages
...profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of bis opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1866 - 724 pages
...York, in 1846, seems to have set at liberty even the consciences of witnesses, for it declares that " No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinion on matters of religious belief." 54 APPENDIX. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. WE, the people... | |
| FRANKLIN B. HOUGII - 1867 - 604 pages
...professional employment. No person shall be imprisoned for a militia fine in time of peace. § 34. No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. § 35. The style of all process shall be, " In the name of the People of the State of Michigan." ARTICLE... | |
| Nevada - Law - 1867 - 242 pages
...profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of his religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to... | |
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