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Evidence Act 1877

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1877 c. 14
Year1877


Evidence Act, 1877

(40 & 41 Vict.) CHAPTER 14.

An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Evidence in certain cases of Misdemeanor.

[28th June 1877]

W HEREAS it is expedient further to amend the law of evidence:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Defendant, and wife or husband of defendant, may be witness in certain trials.

1 Defendant, and wife or husband of defendant, may be witness in certain trials.

1. On the trial of any indictment or other proceeding for the non-repair of any public highway or bridge, or for a nuisance to any public highway, river, or bridge, and of any other indictment or proceeding instituted for the purpose of trying or enforcing a civil right only, every defendant to such indictment or proceeding, and the wife or husband of any such defendant, shall be admissible witnesses and compellable to give evidence.

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