Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2: With Illustrations From Scotch, Indian, American, and Other Legal Systems Honour Judge Pitt Judge Eleventh Glasgow field, and having answered that he did, but that he never knew of any damage done there, the counsel for the plaintiff proposed to ask him, Whether he had known of any sum having been paid by the defendant to the proprietors of Glasgow field, for alleged damage occasioned by the works? The learned judge, however, refused to allow this question to be put, and on a bill of exceptions, the House of Lords confirmed the ruling.1 Here, had the answer been in the afiirmative, it would not have been evidence, because money paid to quiet a complaint can be no proof that the demand was well founded; and even if it were evidence in favour of the party receiving the money, it could not be evidence on behalf of a stranger. Neither was the question admis sible in order to test the credit of the witness; for, raising, as it did, an irrelevant inquiry, the answer could not have been contradicted, had it been in the negative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.