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testimony

Federal Rule of Evidence 804, former testimony is admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule when the declarant is unavailable and if a predecessor in interest in a civil proceeding or the party against whom the

Deathbed or Dying Declarations

2 KB 697], and this may be collected from the nature and circumstances of the case, although the declarant did not express such an apprehension. It is not essential that the party should apprehend immediate dissolution; it

James hearing

of a co- conspirator should be admitted into evidence, by analysing whether there was a conspiracy, whether the declarant and the defendant were part of the conspiracy, and whether the statement was made in furtherance of the

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Perjury

deals with false statements on oath otherwise than in a judicial proceeding, and s. 3 with false oaths, declarations, notices, etc., with reference to marriage; an offence under either of these sections is a misdemeanour and punishable

Swear

Swear, includes affirming and declaring in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing, General Clauses Act,

Exhibit

Exhibit, a document or other thing shown to a witness when giving evidence, and referred to by him in his evidence. The term is usually applied to a document referred to in, but not annexed to,...

Void and voidable

transactions, decrees are those which are wholly without jurisdiction, ab initio void and for avoiding the same, no declaration is necessary, law does not take any notice of the same and it can be disregarded in collateral

Vaccination

Vaccination Act of 1867 if within four months from the birth of the child he makes a statutory declaration [see infra] that he conscientiously believes that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child, and

Affirmation

Affirmation, a solemn declaration without oath; the being allowed to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called

Election

wide connotation commencing from the Presidential notification calling upon the electorate to elect and culminating in the final declaration of the returned candidate, Mohinder Singh Gill v. Chief Election Commissioner, (1978) 1 SCC 405: AIR 1978 SC

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