... gossip hearsay malice notoriety transmission defamation At the very moment that she forsakes her lover Troilus, Chaucer's Criseyde is overcome with misery for what she has lost – not her Trojan prince, but her ‘name of trouthe in love, for everemo’ (V. 1055). ¹ She describes...

... of evidence law although this law is for several reasons not clear in view of outside observers. Keywords: evidence; the jury; bench trials; free proof; free evaluation of evidence; hearsay; admissi- bility rules; rules on quantum and quality of proof; the Roman-canon proof system. 1...

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... as to challenge authoritarian power. Subsequently, the chapter demonstrates how the novel mobilizes storytelling modes—specifically hearsay, footnotes, and silences—to formally represent and critique the dissemination and repression of information under dictatorship. The chapter ultimately argues that the novel...

... to indicate the speed of the word, all revolving around its imagined ability to fly ἔπεα πτερόεντα. The path of hearsay has often been described as the unpredictable journey of self-propagating talk: leaving from an unidentifiable source, branching out, and sometimes dissolving into an anonymous crowd...

... dispossession settler state settler colonialism distinct rights first peoples hearsay testimony aboriginal title coevalness If our rights are meaningless, if it is inconceivable that our society have treaties with the white society even though those treaties were signed by honourable men on both sides...

...When a defendant cannot or will not speak, as Hester Prynne and Hetty Sorrel do not, others must be relied on to provide the necessary character evidence. But what are the conditions and limits on the kinds of testimony a witness might give? Chapter Two examines legal objections to hearsay...

... interrupt their narratives to talk about character, or when judicial opinions and parliamentary debates parse its meanings, we see character discourse in the making. Character modes also include thematic explorations within the story, for example gossip, hearsay, libel, secrecy, privacy, and disclosure...

... deemed them as savages, Boas figured that categories like races and gender are artificial constructs. Moreover, Boas' groups figured the weakness of anthropology for depending on hearsay instead of science. The chapter considers the notion of cultural relativism by referencing how its tolerance enraged...

... of a whole social world, and propose that Tijuana is the place in Mexico where this model can come into its own as lived reality. Inés’ performance, however, is contentious: it is triggered by the anthropologist’s naive address of her as someone who might engage in hearsay. Two modes of public communication...

...Chapter 7 focuses on the narcocorrido—a popular ballad genre devoted to the exploits of drug traffickers—as one of the most important mass media forms through which the pueblo takes shape as a hearsay public. The fetishistic logics of patronage represented in the songs are closely tied...

...Mrs. E begins her life history of migration by evoking the hearsay public. In doing so, she collapses the difference between her own story of irremediable personal loss and that of the “illegal alien” who has died in the attempt to cross the border. Mrs. E thus turns the border into a metaphysical...

... in Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al. and how he addressed the question of the admissibility of the letters written by Frederick Adolph Walters and of hearsay evidence more generally. homesteaders homesteading Ingalls John Kansas Senator Kansas Peffer William Kansas Senator People’s...

... the defendants. Finally, it examines the settlement reached by Sallie Hillmon and Connecticut Mutual and the Supreme Court's 1892 ruling on the admissibility of hearsay evidence. sixth trial 1899 in Hillmon v Mutual Life Insurance Company et al American Society for Psychical Research Connecticut Mutual Life...

... knowledge of. Courts and commentators have noted that hearsay testimony comes with various infirmities. Because the person with first-hand knowledge is not testifying, truth-seeking tools (oath, demeanor, impeachment, cross-examination) cannot be employed to evaluate the declarant's sincerity, memory...

...Chapter 4 turns to witness reliability. Juries attach great weight to testimony and yet witness’s accounts can be highly unreliable. An initial concern is that demeanour may give an unjustified impression of accuracy. The law also limits the situations where witnesses can present hearsay evidence...

...External evaluation of the hearsay rule focuses on causal links between various empirical assumptions and the capacity of the trial to produce correct outcomes. On an internal analysis, the rule is founded on principles intrinsic to the legitimacy of fact-finding. It is argued that the rule stems...

...The chapter focuses on historical developments of the hearsay rule and domestic violence from Anglo-American common law to the most recent US Supreme Court opinions, emphasizing the changes in the foundational language ideology. The chapter begins by briefly discussing the historical hearsay rule’s...

...Medieval law depended heavily on hearsay and reputation, and this has made it seem as though neither scholars nor laymen saw any problems in a testimonial system based on the word of the “oathworthy witness.” This chapter argues that we can locate a sharp critique of the testimonial system in legal...

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