The indispensable requisite to Union success was a commander for the Army of the Potomac in whosecompetency the Administration, the people, and most of all the soldiers would have confidence.
The question pertinent to logic is—Granting the want of complete competency in the observer, on what point is that insufficiency on his part likely to lead him wrong?
A judge in trying a cause, if evidence of doubtful competency is offered, can admit it provisionally and exclude it afterwards if, on deliberation, he thinks that it should not be considered.
Of course, however, this must depend largely on the competency of the trial judges in the court where it is claimed that errors have occurred.
The character of walking depends upon the strength andcompetency of legs.
If, for example, biology can give us knowledge of the causes of competency and incompetency, strength and weakness, that knowledge is all to the good.
All questions of thecompetency of evidence are solved by the Court and not by the jury.
The mental and moral requisites are competency in the knowledge of their profession and devotion to justice, morality, the constitution, and law (see 1943).
The pastor in virtue of his office is gravely obliged to make inquiries about the competency and fitness of the prospective husband and wife, and even in a death-bed marriage the obligation does not cease.
The question pertinent to logic is--Granting the want of complete competency in the observer, on what points is that insufficiency on his part likely to lead him wrong?
The abolition of the slave trade by Congress, in 1808, is another illustration of the competency of legislative power to abolish slavery.
It is so manifestly an attribute not merely of absolute sovereignty, but even of ordinary legislation, that the competency of a legislature to exercise it, may well nigh be reckoned among the legal axioms of the civilized world.
The history of legislation since the revival of letters, is a record crowded with testimony to the universally admitted competency of the law-making power to abolish slavery.
Who would dare prophesy that his dream of amassing a competency for his children would be fulfilled?
Her extensive fortune, before frittered to mere competency by the extortions of the revolution, now scarcely supplies her own wants; and her tenants humanely take the opportunity of her present distress to avoid paying their rent.
We may judge of the competency of many of these people to be official censors of education by the following specimens from a report of Gregoire's.
If everyone who came before the court for a competency hearing brought out a bunch of irrelevant witnesses and made long speeches, the court calendar would be backlogged for decades.
John, the bosom disciple of our Lord, wrote with the full consciousness of his apostolic authority and his competency as a witness of what he had himself seen and heard.
Difficulties that arise simply from a writer's brevity must not be allowed to set aside satisfactory evidence of his competency and truthfulness.
And here let it be remembered that his transcendent competency was the result of academic training, for of late we have heard many objections to this kind of discipline.
But in Les Casseurs de Pierres the arrangement is one which recalls the competency of linear balance and development in Tintoretto's Minerva Expelling Mars.
The competency of any human tribunal to dissolve its sacred obligations may well be doubted.
The debates of that period chiefly turned upon the competency of this power to bargain away any of the old States.
With this apology, I hasten in the first instance to the discussion of the competency of Mr. Erskine's powers to conclude the provisional agreement of the 19th of April last.
And I maintain, that neither has it thecompetency to clap a hump upon our shoulders.
The gentlemen who have preceded me on the same side of the question have sustained, I trust to your satisfaction, and that of the House, the competency of Mr. Erskine's powers to make and conclude the arrangement of the 19th of April last.
The jury are not to decide on the competency of witnesses, or of any other kind of evidence, in any way whatsoever.
In all cases of evidence Lord Mansfield's maxim was, to lean to admissibility, leaving the objections which were made to competency to go to credit, and to be weighed in the minds of the jury after they had heard it.
Similarly, the Negro voter would elect representatives whom he knew he could trust for competency in the management of his affairs, and not persons whose sole recommendation to him would be the possession of the same kind of skin.
He proposes to regulate this competency by Act of Congress, where, among other things, we are to provide that in the courts of the United States witnesses shall be incompetent on account of color.
If the rule is not justly within our reach, pray, Sir, why are we asked to vote on a bill concerning the competency of witnesses, and with a section expressly regulating the whole subject?
He asks us to legislate on the competency of witnesses.
July 15th, the Senate had under consideration a bill concerning the competency of witnesses in courts of the United States, which provided that this should be regulated by “the laws of the State in which the court shall be held.
While the Court, or Judge, determines the competency of the witness to testify as an expert, the weight to be accorded to his testimony is for the jury to decide.
It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress.
Youth will not weigh so much against you as a competency will do for you.
The command belongs to Colonel Fry, whose competency no one disputes, and whose age is certainly a qualification in his favor," answered Washington.
Such are the rules that the wisdom of successive generations of men, learned in the law, have adopted for the establishment of the competency or incompetency of witnesses.
If the information is derived from another Brother, who states that he has examined the party, then all that has already been said of the competency of the one giving the information is equally applicable.
They have been satisfied when they have reached that competency which gives support, and as a result they have not sought foreign intercourse.
