5. That children under seven can commit an indictable offence.
2. IMPOSED BY INADEQUACY AND UNCERTAINTY OF KNOWLEDGE.
1. The presence of gonorrhœa cannot be established by microscopical evidence.
2. A small mammalian blood-stain cannot be sworn to be “human.”
3. In a case of sudden death you cannot state whether a bruise was inflicted immediately before or immediately after the death.
4. The sex of a very old or a very young skeleton cannot be determined.
5. The age of a skeleton, after complete ossification, is guess-work.
6. Death cannot be affirmed until putrefaction sets in.
7. Pregnancy must not be asserted until quickening has been felt, or the fœtal parts are palpable.
8. Affiliation to putative parent from personal resemblance is insufficient.