In Initialibus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the preliminaries. A term in Seotch practice, applied to the preliminary examination of a witness as to the following points: Whether he knows the parties, or bears ill will to either of them, or has received any reward or promise of re wird for what he may say, or can lose or gain by the cause, or has been told by any person what to say. If tiie witness answer these questions satisfactorily, he is then examined i causa, in the cause. Bell, Dict. “Evidence.”