incompetent to testify

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• incompetent — in·com·pe·tent 1 /in käm pə tənt/ adj 1: not legally qualified: as a: lacking legal capacity (as because of age or mental deficiency) b: incapable due to mental or physical condition compare competent c …   Law dictionary

• transaction with person since deceased or incompetent — A transaction between a witness and a person who has since died or become incompetent, so conducted that the latter, if living, could contradict the witness should he testify falsely. 58 Am J1st Witn § 238 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• WITNESS — (Heb. עֵד, one that has personal knowledge of an event or a fact. The evidence of at least two witnesses was required for convicting the accused (Num. 35:30; Deut. 17:6; 19:15; cf. I Kings 21:10, 13). Commercial transactions of importance took… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• evidence — /ev i deuhns/, n., v., evidenced, evidencing. n. 1. that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof. 2. something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign: His flushed look was visible evidence of his fever. 3.… …   Universalium

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• disqualified witness — A witness incompetent to testify because of his mental condition, want of sensibility to the obligation of an oath, the privileged nature of the communication or other source of his knowledge of the facts, or interest in the result of the suit in …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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