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1. What are public documents? except
a. Written official acts of a public officer
b. Wills and testaments
c. Notarized documents
d. Public records
2. How to prove the genuineness of
handwriting?
a. By a witness who actually saw the person
writing the instrument
b. By a witness who honestly believes of the
handwriting
c. By the judge only
d. By reliable and dignified witness
3. What principle is use to impeach a witness by
prior inconsistent statements?
a. Written answer principle
b. Oral answer principle
c. Laying the predicate principle
d. Laying the predicament principle
4. When does evidence of authenticity of private
document not necessary?
a. When the document is more than 10 yrs
old
b. When the document is 5yrs old
c. When the document is 20 yrs old above
d. When the document is more than 30 yrs
old
5. How to prove public documents? except
a. Original copy
b. Official publication thereof
c. Photocopied from the original
d. Certified true copy from the original
6. What document may be considered as public
document?
a. Baptismal Certificate
b. Birth certificate
c. Medical certificate
d. Death certificate
7. Why is formal offer of evidence important?
a. No offer, as if no evidence presented
b. No offer, as if the case is finished
c. No offer, no trial
d. No offer, no decision to be made
8. When does the testimony of witness be
offered?
a. before presentation of evidence
b. at the time the witness is called to testify
c. after the presentation of other evidence
d. when the judge said so
9. Documentary and object evidence shall be
offered
a. After the presentation of testimonial
evidence
b. Before the start of the hearing
c. After the trial of the case
d. Should be part of the complaint
10. When the judge “overruled an objection”,
what does it means?
a. Judge disagrees with the objection
b. Judge agrees with the objection
c. Judge wanted to stop the trial
d. Judge wanted a recess of the hearing
11. What is the principle when the documents
offered as evidence are excluded by the courts
but offered to be made part of the records?
a. Tender of conclusive of evidence
b. Tender of excluded evidence
c. Tender of objectivity of evidence
d. Tender of expulsion of evidence
12. Th quantum of evidence required in
administrative case
a. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
b. Substantial evidence
c. Clear and convincing evidence
d. Preponderance of evidence
13. The quantum of evidence required in civil case
a. Clear and convincing evidence
b. Preponderance of evidence
c. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
d. Substantial evidence
14. The quantum of evidence required in criminal
cases
a. Preponderance of evidence
b. Clear and convincing evidence
c. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
d. Substantial evidence
15. In the hierarchy of the quantum of evidence,
what evidence is 2nd in rank?
a. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
b. Preponderance of evidence
c. Clear and convincing evidence
d. Substantial evidence
ANSWERS:
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. A
11. B
12. B
13. B
14. C
15. C