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Definition of Disserving
1. disserve [v] - See also: disserve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disserving
Literary usage of Disserving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell (1882)
"We come lastly to self-disserving statements «o criminal cases; or, as they are
most usually termed, " Confessions." In treating this subject, we propose to ..."
2. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"IMPROPRIETY OF THE EXCLUSION PUT UPON SELF-disserving EVIDENCE BY ... I.— Uses
of self-disserving evidence, and mischiefs resulting from its exclusion. ..."
3. A Manual of Common Law: Comprising the Fundamental Principles and the Points by Josiah William Smith (1864)
"But self- disserving statements, usually termed admissions, are ordinarily
receivable in civil cases. (Best, 639, 651, 671 ; Powell, 111. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1918)
"Books and records as disserving declarations and admissions. A corporate record
or book entry or writing by it or resolution adopted may amount to an ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence: Being a Consideration of the Nature and by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1904)
"Where there is a self-serving interest in the declaration, and also a disserving
interest, the declaration or entry is admissible if the ..."
6. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"When the declaration shows both a self-serving and a disserving interest, and
the part which shows the former can be excluded without affecting the ..."
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