Definition of witness

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Witness (v. i.) One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness..

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Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na..
Attest :: Attest (v. t.) To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record..
Depose :: Depose (v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Attest :: Attest (v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.
Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..
Witness :: Witness (v. i.) That which furnishes evidence or proof.
Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play..
Obtest :: Obtest (v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke as a witness.
Witnesser :: Witnesser (n.) One who witness.
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations..
Witnessed :: Witnessed (imp. & p. p.) of Witnes.
Frank-law :: Frank-law (n.) The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights..
Record :: Record (v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
Redirect :: Redirect (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination..
Incompetent :: Incompetent (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence..
False :: False (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness..
Competency :: Competency (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence..
Subpoenaed :: Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill..
Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to..
Contestation :: Contestation (n.) Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
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