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    Question

    All persons are competent to testify as witnesses

    subject to which of the following conditions?
    A Unless they are prevented from understanding questions put to them Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Unless they are prevented from giving rational answers to questions due to tender age, extreme old age Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Unless they are prevented from giving rational answers to questions due to tender age and not old age. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both A and B Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    S.118. Who may testify. –– All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind. Explanation. –– A lunatic is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his lunacy from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.

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