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Rule 132, Section 36

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OBJECTION
– Objection to evidence offered orally must be made immediately after the
offer is made.

Land Bank vs. Veronica (GR 176692, June 27, 2012)


Objection to a question propounded in the course of the oral examination of a
witness shall be made as soon as the grounds therefore shall become reasonably
apparent.

An offer of evidence in writing shall be objected to within 3days after notice of the
offer unless a different period is allowed by the court. In any case, the grounds for
the objections must be specified
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Specific grounds of objection.

The usual grounds for objection are the following:

a. Objection to the question for being leading;


b. Objection to the question for it calls for hearsay evidence;
c. Objection to the question for lack of basis, or it assumes a fact not
established;
d. Objection to the question for it invades the field of confidential
communication;
e. Objection to the question for being vague;
f. Objection to the question for it calls for a conclusion of law;
g. Objection to the question for it calls for a conclusion of fact;
h. Objection to the question for being argumentative;
i. Objection to the question for the proper foundation has not been laid; 
j. Objection to the question for it calls for the opinion of the witness;
k. Objection to the question for being misleading;
l. Objection to the question for it has already been answered;
m. Objection to the question for the witness is incompetent;
n. Objection to the question for being inadmissible under the parol evidence
rule;
o. Objection to the question for it attempts to elicit from the witness self-
serving evidence;
p. Objection to the question for the document offered is self-serving;

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