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EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT 1853 - SECT 1

Husbands and wives of parties to be admissible witnesses.

1. 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 husbands and wives of the parties
thereto, and of the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other
proceeding may be brought or instituted, or opposed 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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