"In criminal cases, circumstantial evidence, if sufficiently proven, can produce the conviction of the accused" To understand circumstantial evidence there is a need to define...

"The District Judge held that ‘a reporter called to testify before a grand jury regarding confidential information enjoys no First Amendment (free speech and press)...

"In the United States, three states (Idaho, Massachusetts and Minnesota) have adopted some variant of the parent-child privilege by statute, and one state, New York,...

"To compel a minister or priest to testify to a confession made to him by a penitent is equivalent to an annulment of the confessional...

"Only when the court is satisfied that a person is being unlawfully deprived of his liberty will the petition for habeas corpus be granted" What...

"If the filing of the judgment on the pleadings is proper, the court can proceed to render judgment without a trial after an Answer is...

"There is no procedural canon against the exercise of common sense in deciding the admissibility of hearsay evidence" One of the most important amendments to...

"Not all judgments are for the recovery of sums of money; these may also be for the conveyance and delivery of deeds, delivery or restitution...

"In our jurisdiction, replevin may stand as a combination of the principal remedy with a prayer for provisional relief, or for the recovery of a...

"The organization of courts and the admission to the legal profession in 1901 being under the Civil Government of the Unites States was obviously under...