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EVIDENCE ACT 1851 - SECT 2

Parties to be admissible witnesses.

2. On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any
inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of
justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties,
authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties thereto, and the
persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding may be
brought or defended, shall, except as herein-after excepted, be competent and
compellable to give evidence either viva8 voce or by deposition, according to
the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the parties to the
said suit, action, or other proceeding.

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