What is the general rule of law on the principle that all evidence is to be weighed according to the weight of the evidence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Curran v. MacDougall and HMTQ, 2006 BCSC 933 (CanLII):
The general rule goes back a very long way. It was succinctly described by Lord Mansfield In Blatch v. Archer (1774), 1 Cowp. 63, 98 E.R. 969, at p. 65: It is certainly a maxim that all evidence is to be weighed according to the proof which it was in the power of one side to have produced, and in the power of the other to have contradicted.
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