"I apprehend that you may put a leading question to an unwilling witness on the examination in chief at the discretion…"

"It appears to us contrary to all rules of evidence, and opposed to natural justice, that the evidence of one party sh…"

"The objection in principle applies only to those cases where the question propounded involves an answer immediately c…"

"There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felon…"

"Try if you can trap him in any question."

"A general fishing cross-examination ought not to be permitted."

"There is no fixed rule which binds the counsel calling a witness to a particular mode of examining him. If a witness,…"

"The wisdom and goodness of our law appear in nothing more remarkably, than in the perspicuity, certainty, and clearne…"

"I mean to decide this, and no further. That in each particular case there must be some discretion in the presiding Ju…"

"There are hundreds of actions tried every year in which the evidence is irreconcilably conflicting, and must be on on…"