A handy-book of forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Bathurst Woodman and Charles Meymott Tidy.

Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A handy-book of forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Bathurst Woodman and Charles Meymott Tidy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    are to be advanced and paid by the Coroner immediately after the termination of the inquest. In a protracted trial it is not generally necessary that you should attend the whole of each day; but it is necessary, in order to legally claim your fees, that you should attend the Court at, or just before its first opening each day, when you can generally ascertain whether your evidence is likely to be required for that day. Fees are not recover- able from attorneys, but only from the principals in an action; and it does not appear that large fees are recoverable at all. A skilled witness should therefore take care to be paid before giving his evidence, if he has any doubts of the honour’ of those retaining him. Fig. 1. Sketch Map Referred to at Page 8. A, cow-house; B, servants’ bedroom ; c, kitchen ; D, back-kitchen ; E, dairy; F, table; G, dresser ; h, parents’ and Sarah Jacob’s bedroom. 1, parents’ bedstead ; 2, wardrobe ; 3, corner cupboard ; 4, the fasting-girl’s bed - stead; 5, head of bedstead, on which two lighted candles were placed in the evening and night-time of the last watch ; 6, table ; 7, 7, linen presses ; 8, 8, the two chairs in which the nurses respectively sat and watched • 9’ book-shelves. ’ ’ [By kind permission of Dr. Fasting Girl,” p. 50.] Fowler, from his “ Complete History of the Welsh