Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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incompetent

adj. 1. (Of a witness) unqualified to testify. 2. (Of evidence) inadmissible. ( This sense is often criticized, as in the quotation below. "[Incompetent] is constantly used loosely as equivalent to 'inadmissible' on any ground. This use should be avoided." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Law of Evidence 36 (1935). incompetent evidence See EVIDENCE.

incompetent evidence

Evidence that is for any reason inadmissible.