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 | India, Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1872 - 230 pages
...118. All persons shall be competent to testify who may tes- unless the Court considers that they tify. are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind. Explanation. — A... | |
 | India - 1877 - 1088 pages
...such person had a right to them as against the bailor. IX.— Of Witnesses. 118. Who may testify. — All persons shall be competent to testify unless the...they are prevented from understanding the questions pui 920 to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1878 - 968 pages
...R. 116, 128 ; 32 How. St. Tr. 69—73, SC 5 In India, the rule on this subject is as follows : — " All persons shall be competent to testify, unless...years, extreme old age, disease whether of body or The incapacity, however, is only co-extensive with the defect. Thus a monomaniac, or a person who is... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - 722 pages
...of 1872, $ 118, enacts that "All persona shall be competent to testify, unless the Court considers they are prevented from understanding the questions...answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old ago, disease, whether of body or mind, or any cther cause of the same kind." As to the law of Scotland,... | |
 | India - 1888 - 1246 pages
...the bailor2. CHAPTEE IX. OV WITNESSES. 118. All persons 3 shall be competent to testify unless tht Court considers that they are prevented from understanding...rational answers to those questions, by tender years 4, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind. Explanation.... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1887 - 1034 pages
...Stark. R. 116, 128; 32 How. St. Tr. G9-j73, SC 3 In India, the rule on this subject is as follows: — "All persons shall be competent to testify, unless...from understanding the questions put to them, or from givfug rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease whether of body... | |
 | India - 1888 - 1248 pages
...to testify unless the Who may Court considers that they are prevented from understanding es 1 ythe questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years 4, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind. Explanation.... | |
 | William Pinder Eversley - 1896 - 1172 pages
...sect. 118, which enacts that "all persons shall bo competent to testify unless the Court considers thut they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to their questions by tender years," &c. 3 I East, PC 443 ; SCBNP 293. 4 Ke.r v. Pike, 3 C. & P. 598.... | |
 | India, Tarapada Banerji - 1896 - 738 pages
...competent to understand questions put to him and to give rational answers. Declarations of persons who are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers by extreme old age, disease, or any other cause of the same kind, are also inadmissible. The declarant... | |
 | Oudh (India). Court of the Judicial Commissioner - 1904 - 502 pages
...law of British India is the same — see sections 118 and 119 of the Evidence Act, — which provide that all persons shall be competent to testify, unless...giving rational answers to those questions, by tender yean, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or of mind, or any other cause of the same kind, and... | |
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