Rule 130 Rules Of Admissibility

Question 1

Evidence that are those addressed to the senses of the court.

Answer 1

Objects (Section 1, Rule 130. Rules of Admissibility; A. Object (Real) Evidence)

Question 2

When is an object allowed to be exhibited to, examined or viewed by the court?

Answer 2

When it is relevant to the fact in issue

Sec. 1, Rule 130. Rules of Admissibility; A. Object (Real) Evidence

Question 3

Evidence that consist of writings, recordings, photographs or any material containing letters, words, sounds, numbers, fi gures, symbols, or their equivalent, or other modes of written expression off ered as proof of their contents.

Answer 3

Documents

Sec. 2, Rule 130. Rules of Admissibility; B. Documentary Evidence

Question 4

What are included as Photographs under Sec. 2, Rule 130?

Answer 4

Still pictures 
Drawings
Stored images
X-ray films
Motion pictures or videos
(Sec. 2, Rule 130. Rules of Admissibility; B. Documentary Evidence)

Question 5

What document is admissible when the subject of inquiry is the contents of a document, writing, recording, photograph or other record

Answer 5

Original Document

Sec. 3, Rule 130. Rules on Admissibility; 1. Original Document Rule

Question 6

Cases wherein Secondary Evidence maybe presented in lieu of Original Document/ The exceptions under Sec. 3, Rule 130.

Answer 6

(a) When the original is lost or destroyed, or cannot be produced in court, without bad faith on the part of the offeror;
(b) When the original is in the custody or under the control of the party against whom the evidence is offered, and the latter fails to produce it after reasonable notice, or the original cannot be obtained by local judicial processes or procedures;
(c) When the original consists of numerous accounts or other documents which cannot be examined in court without great loss of time and the fact sought to be established from them is only the general result of the whole;
(d) When the original is a public record in the custody of a public officer or is recorded in a public office; and
(e) When the original is not closely-related to a controlling issue.