CLJ 3 PRE-FINAL

The parent cannot be compelled to testify against his child or other direct descendants.

• Filial privilege rule

• Parental privilege rule

• Familial privilege rule

• Pedigree privilege rule

A person licensed to practice medicine engaged in the diagnosis or treatment of a mental or emotional condition.

• Medical doctor

• Psychologist

• Psychotherapist

• Surgeon

All persons who can perceive, and perceiving, and can make known their perception to others.

• Witness

• Accused

• Complainant

• Lawyer

The following are qualifications of a witness, except:

• Can perceive;

• Can make perceptions known to others;

• Must take either an oath or affirmation;

• Possess any of the disqualifications provided by law.

Means the ability to observe by the use of the senses including the ability to receive impressions from the outside world and to grasp or understand these impressions.

• Ability to perceive

• Ability to conceive

• Ability to receive

• Ability to deceive

The legal fitness or legal capacity of a person to testify as a witness.

• Credibility

• Competency

• Capacity

• Ability

It goes to the character of the witness to be believable or not.

• Credibility

• Competency

• Capacity

• Ability

The person is disqualified from being a witness due to a physical or mental cause.

• Partial

• Relative

• Total

• Substantial

Includes only information of confidential nature received during marriage.

• Filial privilege

• Parental privilege

• Familial privilege

• Marital privilege

Conversation that takes places within the context of a protected relationship, such as that between an attorney and client, a husband and wife, a priest and penitent, and a doctor and patient.

• Marital communication

• Attorney-client communication

• Privileged communication

• Miscommunication