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EVIDENCE (Fina Period) PDF
EVIDENCE (Fina Period) PDF
Section 2. Admissibility. – An electronic document (a) The reliability of the manner or method in which
is admissible in evidence if it complies with the rules it was generated, stored or communicated,
on admissibility prescribed by the Rules of Court and including but not limited to input and output
related laws and is authenticated in the manner procedures, controls, tests and checks for
prescribed by these Rules. accuracy and reliability of the electronic data
message or document, in the light of all the
Section 3. Privileged communication. – The
circumstances as well as any relevant
confidential character of a privileged communication
agreement;
is not lost solely on the ground that it is in the form
(b) The reliability of the manner in which its
of an electronic document.
originator was identified;
(c) The integrity of the information and
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communication system in which it is recorded
BEST EVIDENCE RULE
or stored, including but not limited to the
hardware and computer programs or software
Section 1. Original of an electronic document. –
used as well as programming errors;
An electronic document shall be regarded as the
(d) The familiarity of the witness or the person who
equivalent of an original document under the Best
made the entry with the communication and
Evidence Rule if it is a printout or output readable by
information system;
sight or other means, shown to reflect the data
accurately.
(e) The nature and quality of the information which
went into the communication and information
system upon which the electronic data
message or electronic document was based; or
(f) Other factors which the court may consider as
affecting the accuracy or integrity of the
electronic document or electronic data
message.
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AUDIO, PHOTOGRAPHIC, VIDEO, AND
EPHEMERAL EVIDENCE
(x) That acquiescence resulted from a belief that (ee) That a thing once proved to exist
the thing acquiesced in was conformable to continues as long as is usual with things of
the law or fact; the nature;
(y) That things have happened according to the (ff) That the law has been obeyed;
ordinary course of nature and ordinary nature (gg) That a printed or published book,
habits of life; purporting to be printed or published by
(z) That persons acting as copartners have public authority, was so printed or published;
entered into a contract of copartneship; (hh) That a printed or published book,
(aa) That a man and woman deporting purporting contain reports of cases adjudged
themselves as husband and wife have in tribunals of the country where the book is
entered into a lawful contract of marriage; published, contains correct reports of such
(bb) That property acquired by a man and cases;
a woman who are capacitated to marry each (ii) That a trustee or other person whose duty it
other and who live exclusively with each was to convey real property to a particular
other as husband and wife without the benefit person has actually conveyed it to him when
of marriage or under void marriage, has been such presumption is necessary to perfect the
obtained by their joint efforts, work or title of such person or his successor in
industry. interest;
(cc) That in cases of cohabitation by a (jj) That except for purposes of succession,
man and a woman who are not capacitated when two persons perish in the same
to marry each other and who have acquire calamity, such as wreck, battle, or
properly through their actual joint conflagration, and it is not shown who died
contribution of money, property or industry, first, and there are no particular
such contributions and their corresponding circumstances from which it can be inferred,
shares including joint deposits of money and the survivorship is determined from the
evidences of credit are equal. probabilities resulting from the strength and
(dd) That if the marriage is terminated the age of the sexes, according to the
and the mother contracted another marriage following rules:
within three hundred days after such
termination of the former marriage, these
1. If both were under the age of fifteen years,
rules shall govern in the absence of proof to
the contrary: the older is deemed to have survived;
(1) A child born before one hundred eighty days 2. If both were above the age sixty, the
after the solemnization of the subsequent younger is deemed to have survived;
marriage is considered to have been 3. If one is under fifteen and the other above
conceived during such marriage, even sixty, the former is deemed to have
though it be born within the three hundred survived;
4. If both be over fifteen and under sixty, and
the sex be different, the male is deemed to
have survived, if the sex be the same, the
older;
5. If one be under fifteen or over sixty, and the
other between those ages, the latter is
deemed to have survived.