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Definition :

Voir dire [veritatem dicere, Lat., 'to tell the truth,' voir being the Norman-French for vrai].

A sort of preliminary examination by the judge, in which the witness is required to speak the truth with respect to the questions put to him, when, if incompetency appears from his answers, he is rejected, and even if they are satisfactory, the judge may receive evidence to contract them or establish other facts showing the witness to be incompetent, Best on Evidence.