c. 85) was passed, in the year 1843, for removing the incompetency to

give evidence, by reason of any crime, or _interest_.]

[Footnote 32: NOTE 32. Page 456.

When once a man's necessities have compelled him to subscribe his name to the three magical letters "I. O. U.," he is liable for the sum specified in it to any one simply producing it, though it be addressed to no one, and no proof be given that "U" means the plaintiff, (see _Curtis_ v. _Rickards_, Manning and Grainger, 46; and _Douglas_ v. _Hone_, 12 Adolphus and Ellis, 641,) unless the defendant be able to adduce clear evidence impeaching the plaintiff's right to recover.]

[Footnote 33: NOTE 33. Page 461.

The late venerable and gifted Lord Stowell, in the case of _Evans_ v. _Evans_, 1 Consistory Reports, p. 36.]

[Footnote 34: NOTE 34. Page 466.

Some have imagined this to be an allusion to a disclosure pretended by M. Thiers, a few years ago, _after the death of Lord Holland_, to have been made to him by that nobleman, of what had passed at a Cabinet council!!]

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