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![handle is hein.journals/lawbultn24 and id is 1 raw text is: THE LAW BULLETIN
OF
THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF IOWA
NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR
APIRILr 1897
A SYNOPSIS OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE.
(REPRINTED FROM LAW BULLETIN NUMBER FOUR.)
[This synopsis Is not Intended to take the place of A text-book, nor
even to serve as the basis of a course of lectures. It presupposes
study of a text-book, attendance upon lectures, and reading of cases,
and by way of review attempts to call to the student's mind the
chief results of such work. Necessarily It omits many things.
Necessarily, also, It states many doctrines meagerly. For explana-
tions and authorities use must be made of the text-books cited In the
notes.1]_____
PART I.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I.
THE SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE OF FACTs.
z . scope of subject. -The law of Evidence teaches how
knowledge of facts is obtained by courts.2
1 2. Possible souroes of Knowedg..-The possible sources of
knowledge are: (I) Consciousness; (2) Perception through
' Abbreviations: Gr., Greenleaf on Evidence; St., Stephen's Digest of
the Law of Evidence; Best, Chamberlayne's Edition of Best on Evidence.
3I Harv. L. Rev. 142-143.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/lawbultn24&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)