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A treatise on the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and the abuse of legal process

Martin L. Newell

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Description:Excerpt: 9. How is the question of probable cause to be tried. -- (1) By The Jury. -- The functions of the court and jury are different and generally distinct; though sometimes in criminal cases they run into each other so that they cannot be clearly distinguished or separated. But in this action and others of the kind there is but little difficulty in drawing the line. If these functions encroach upon each other it will not be because their respective provinces are not separated by plain boundaries. What facts and circumstances amount to probable cause is a pure question of law. Whether they exist or not in any particular case is a pure question of fact. The former is exclusively for the court; the latter for the jury. The question must necessarily be submitted to the jury when the facts are in controversy, the court instructing them as to the law.1 (2) By The Court. -- It may happen that this and other mixed questions of law and fact need not and cannot properly be sent to a jury. Where the facts are undisputed, or where all the facts which the plaintiff's evidence conduces to prove do not show a want of probable cause, it becomes a mere question of law which the court must decide, and it would be useless and improper to take the opinion of a jur...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A treatise on the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and the abuse of legal process. To get started finding A treatise on the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and the abuse of legal process, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: 9. How is the question of probable cause to be tried. -- (1) By The Jury. -- The functions of the court and jury are different and generally distinct; though sometimes in criminal cases they run into each other so that they cannot be clearly distinguished or separated. But in this action and others of the kind there is but little difficulty in drawing the line. If these functions encroach upon each other it will not be because their respective provinces are not separated by plain boundaries. What facts and circumstances amount to probable cause is a pure question of law. Whether they exist or not in any particular case is a pure question of fact. The former is exclusively for the court; the latter for the jury. The question must necessarily be submitted to the jury when the facts are in controversy, the court instructing them as to the law.1 (2) By The Court. -- It may happen that this and other mixed questions of law and fact need not and cannot properly be sent to a jury. Where the facts are undisputed, or where all the facts which the plaintiff's evidence conduces to prove do not show a want of probable cause, it becomes a mere question of law which the court must decide, and it would be useless and improper to take the opinion of a jur...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A treatise on the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and the abuse of legal process. To get started finding A treatise on the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and the abuse of legal process, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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