reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
42 PA Cons Stat § 5913 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5913 - Spouses as witnesses against each other

§ 5913. Spouses as witnesses against each other. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a criminal proceeding a person shall have the privilege, which he or she may waive, not to testify against his or her then lawful spouse except that there shall be no such privilege:  (1) in proceedings for desertion and maintenance; (2) in any criminal proceeding against either for bodily injury or violence attempted, done or threatened upon the other, or upon the minor children of said husband and wife, or the minor children of either of them, or any minor child in their care or custody, or in the care or custody of either of them;  (3) applicable to proof of the fact of marriage, in support of a criminal charge of bigamy alleged to have been committed by or with the other; or  (4) in any criminal proceeding in which one of the charges pending against the defendant includes murder, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse or rape.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; June 29, 1989, P.L.69, No.16, eff. imd.)    1989 Amendment. Section 2 of Act 16 provided that Act 16 shall apply to all criminal cases pending on the effective date of Act 16.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5914 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5914 - Confidential communications between spouses

§ 5914. Confidential communications between spouses. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a criminal proceeding neither husband nor wife shall be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made by one to the other, unless this privilege is waived upon the trial.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5915 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5915 - Testimony by spouse in rebuttal

§ 5915. Testimony by spouse in rebuttal. In any criminal proceeding brought against the husband or wife, if the defendant makes defense at the trial upon any ground which attacks the character or conduct of his or her spouse, the spouse attacked shall be a competent witness in rebuttal for the Commonwealth.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5916 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5916 - Confidential communications to attorney

§ 5916. Confidential communications to attorney. In a criminal proceeding counsel shall not be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made to him by his client, nor shall the client be compelled to disclose the same, unless in either case this privilege is waived upon the trial by the client.    Cross References. Section 5916 is referred to in sections 4415, 4436 of this title; sections 566, 586 of Title 2 (Administrative Law and Procedure); section 6311.1 of Title 23 (Domestic Relations).
42 PA Cons Stat § 5917 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5917 - Notes of evidence at former trial

§ 5917. Notes of evidence at former trial. Whenever any person has been examined as a witness, either for the Commonwealth or for the defense, in any criminal proceeding conducted in or before a court of record, and the defendant has been present and has had an opportunity to examine or cross-examine, if such witness afterwards dies, or is out of the jurisdiction so that he cannot be effectively served with a subpoena, or if he cannot be found, or if he becomes incompetent to testify for any legally sufficient reason properly proven, notes of his examination shall be competent evidence upon a subsequent trial of the same criminal issue. For the purpose of contradicting a witness the testimony given by him in another or in a former proceeding may be orally proved.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5918 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5918 - Examination of defendant as to other offenses

§ 5918. Examination of defendant as to other offenses. No person charged with any crime and called as a witness in his own behalf, shall be asked, or if asked, shall be required to answer, any question tending to show that he has committed, or been charged with, or been convicted of any offense other than the one wherewith he shall then be charged, or tending to show that he has been of bad character or reputation unless:  (1) he shall have at such trial, personally or by counsel, asked questions of the witness for the prosecution with a view to establish his own good reputation or character, or has given evidence tending to prove his own good character or reputation; or  (2) he shall have testified at such trial against a co-defendant, charged with the same offense.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5919 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5919 - Depositions in criminal matters

§ 5919. Depositions in criminal matters. The testimony of witnesses taken in accordance with section 5325 (relating to when and how a deposition may be taken outside this Commonwealth) may be read in evidence upon the trial of any criminal matter unless it shall appear at the trial that the witness whose deposition has been taken is in attendance, or has been or can be served with a subpoena to testify, or his attendance otherwise procured, in which case the deposition shall not be admissible.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; Oct. 5, 1980, P.L.693, No.142, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5921 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5921 - Interest not to disqualify

§ 5921. Interest not to disqualify. In any civil matter before any tribunal of this Commonwealth, or conducted by virtue of its order or direction, no liability merely for costs nor the right to compensation possessed by an executor, administrator or other trustee, nor any interest merely in the question on trial, nor any other interest, or policy of law, except as is provided in this subchapter, shall make any person incompetent as a witness.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5922 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5922 - Disqualification by perjury

§ 5922. Disqualification by perjury. In a civil matter, a person who has been convicted in a court of this Commonwealth of perjury, which term is hereby declared to include subornation of or solicitation to commit perjury, shall not be a competent witness for any purpose, although his sentence may have been fully complied with, unless the judgment of conviction be judicially set aside or reversed, or unless the matter is one to redress or prevent injury or violence attempted, done or threatened to his person or property, in which cases he shall be permitted to testify.    Cross References. Section 5922 is referred to in section 5931 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5923 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5923 - Confidential communications between spouses

§ 5923. Confidential communications between spouses. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a civil matter neither husband nor wife shall be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made by one to the other, unless this privilege is waived upon the trial.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)   Cross References. Section 5923 is referred to in section 5931 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5924 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5924 - Spouses as witnesses against each other

§ 5924. Spouses as witnesses against each other. (a) General rule.--In a civil matter neither husband nor wife shall be competent or permitted to testify against each other.  (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply in an action or proceeding:  (1) For divorce, including ancillary proceedings for the partition or division of property. (2) For support or relating to the protection or recovery of marital or separate property. (3) For custody or care of children, including actions or proceedings relating to visitation rights and similar matters.  (4) Arising under 23 Pa.C.S. Ch. 61 (relating to protection from abuse). (5) When a statute heretofore or hereafter enacted applicable to the action or proceeding provides either expressly or by necessary implication that spouses may testify therein against each other.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; Dec. 19, 1990, P.L.1240, No.206, eff. 90 days)    Cross References. Section 5924 is referred to in section 5931 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5925 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal

§ 5925. Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal. In any civil action brought against a married person, if the defendant makes defense at the trial upon any ground which attacks the character or conduct of the spouse, the spouse shall be a competent witness in rebuttal for the plaintiff.   (Oct. 4, 1978, P.L.909, No.173, eff. 60 days)
42 PA Cons Stat § 5926 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5926 - Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct

§ 5926. Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct. In all civil actions brought by either the husband or wife, either the husband or the wife shall be a competent witness in rebuttal, when his or her character or conduct is attacked upon the trial thereof, but only in regard to the matter of his or her character or conduct.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5927 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5927 - Actions by spouse to recover separate property

§ 5927. Actions by spouse to recover separate property. In any action brought by either the husband or wife to protect and recover the separate property of either, both shall be fully competent witnesses, except that neither may testify to confidential communications made by one or the other, unless this privilege is waived upon the trial.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5928 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5928 - Confidential communications to attorney

§ 5928. Confidential communications to attorney. In a civil matter counsel shall not be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made to him by his client, nor shall the client be compelled to disclose the same, unless in either case this privilege is waived upon the trial by the client.    Cross References. Section 5928 is referred to in sections 4415, 4436, 5931 of this title; sections 566, 586 of Title 2 (Administrative Law and Procedure); section 6311.1 of Title 23 (Domestic Relations).
42 PA Cons Stat § 5929 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5929 - Physicians not to disclose information

§ 5929. Physicians not to disclose information. No physician shall be allowed, in any civil matter, to disclose any information which he acquired in attending the patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, which shall tend to blacken the character of the patient, without consent of said patient, except in civil matters brought by such patient, for damages on account of personal injuries.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5930 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5930 - Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc

§ 5930. Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in any civil action or proceeding, where any party to a thing or contract in action is dead, or has been adjudged a lunatic and his right thereto or therein has passed, either by his own act or by the act of the law, to a party on the record who represents his interest in the subject in controversy, neither any surviving or remaining party to such thing or contract, nor any other person whose interest shall be adverse to the said right of such deceased or lunatic party, shall be a competent witness to any matter occurring before the death of said party or the adjudication of his lunacy, unless the action or proceeding is by or against the surviving or remaining partners, joint promisors or joint promisees, of such deceased or lunatic party, and the matter occurred between such surviving or remaining partners, joint promisors or joint promisees and the other party on the record, or between such surviving or remaining partners, promisors or promisees and the person having an interest adverse to them, in which case any person may testify to such matters; or, unless the action is a possessory action against several defendants, and one or more of said defendants disclaims of record any title to the premises in controversy at the time the suit was brought and also pays into court the costs accrued at the time of his disclaimer, or gives security therefor as the court in its discretion may direct, in which case such disclaiming defendant shall be a fully competent witness; or, unless the issue or inquiry be devisavit vel non, or be any other issue or inquiry respecting the property of a deceased owner, and the controversy is between parties respectively claiming such property by devolution on the death of such owner, in which case all persons shall be fully competent witnesses.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)   Cross References. Section 5930 is referred to in sections 5931, 5932 of this title.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5931 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5931 - Incompetent witnesses

§ 5931. Incompetent witnesses. No person who is incompetent under section 5922 (relating to disqualification by perjury), section 5923 (relating to confidential communications between spouses), section 5924 (relating to spouses as witnesses against each other) and section 5928 (relating to confidential communications to attorney) shall become competent by the general language of section 5930 (relating to surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc.).
42 PA Cons Stat § 5932 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5932 - Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest

§ 5932. Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest. Any person who is incompetent under section 5930 (relating to surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc.) by reason of interest may nevertheless be called to testify against his own interest, and in that event he shall become a fully competent witness for either party. Such person shall also become fully competent for either party by filing of record a release or extinguishment of his interest.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5933 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5933 - Competency of surviving party

 § 5933. Competency of surviving party. (a) General rule.--In any civil action or proceeding before any tribunal of this Commonwealth, or conducted by virtue of its order or direction, although a party to the thing or contract in action may be dead or may have been adjudged a lunatic, and his right thereto or therein may have passed, either by his own act or by the act of the law, to a party on record who represents his interest in the subject in controversy, nevertheless any surviving or remaining party to such thing or contract or any other person whose interest is adverse to the said right of such deceased or lunatic party, shall be a competent witness to any relevant matter, although it may have occurred before the death of said party or the adjudication of his lunacy, if and only if such relevant matter occurred between himself and another person who may be living at the time of the trial and may be competent to testify, and who does so testify upon the trial against such surviving or remaining party or against the person whose interest may be thus adverse, or if such relevant matter occurred in the presence or hearing of such other living or competent person.  (b) Testimony by deposition.--The testimony now made competent by subsection (a) may also be taken by commission or deposition in accordance with law, and, in that event, the deposition thus taken shall be competent evidence at the trial or hearing, although the person with whom or in whose presence or hearing such relevant matter occurred, may die or become incompetent after the taking of such deposition.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5934 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5934 - Notes of evidence at former trial

§ 5934. Notes of evidence at former trial. Whenever any person has been examined as a witness in any civil matter before any tribunal of this Commonwealth or conducted by virtue of its order or direction, if such witness afterwards dies, or is out of the jurisdiction so that he cannot be effectively served with a subpoena, or if he cannot be found, or if he becomes incompetent to testify for any legally sufficient reason, and if the party, against whom notes of the testimony of such witness are offered, had actual or constructive notice of the examination and an opportunity to be present and examine or cross-examine, properly proven notes of the examination of such witness shall be competent evidence in any civil issue which may exist at the time of his examination, or which may be afterwards formed between the same parties and involving the same subject-matter as that upon which such witness was so examined. For the purpose of contradicting a witness, the testimony given by him in another or in a former proceeding may be orally proved.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5935 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5935 - Examination of person adversely interested

§ 5935. Examination of person adversely interested. In any civil action or proceeding, whether or not it is brought or defended by a person representing the interests of a deceased or lunatic assignor of any thing or contract in action, a party to the record, or a person for whose immediate benefit such proceeding is prosecuted or defended, or any director or other officer of a person which is a party to the record, or for the immediate benefit of which such action or proceeding is prosecuted or defended, or any other person whose interest is adverse to the party calling him as a witness, may be compelled by the adverse party to testify as if under cross-examination, subject to the rules of evidence applicable to witnesses under cross-examination, and the adverse party calling such witnesses shall not be concluded by his testimony, but such person so cross-examined shall become thereby a fully competent witness for the other party as to all relevant matters whether or not these matters were touched upon in his cross-examination, and also, where one of the several plaintiffs or defendants, or the person for whose immediate benefit such proceeding is prosecuted or defended, or such director or officer, or such other person having an adverse interest, is cross-examined under this section, his coplaintiffs or codefendants, or fellow directors or officers, shall thereby become fully competent witnesses on their own behalf, or on behalf of the person of which they shall be directors or officers, as to all relevant matters, whether or not these matters were touched upon in such cross-examination.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5936 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5936 - Medical testimony by deposition

 § 5936. Medical testimony by deposition. (a) General rule.--The testimony of any physician licensed to practice medicine may be taken by oral interrogation in the manner prescribed by general rule for the taking of depositions.  (b) Admissibility.--A deposition taken under subsection (a) shall be admissible in a civil matter.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)   1978 Amendment. Act 53 added section 5936.
42 PA Cons Stat § 5941 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE|Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses|Section 5941 - Persons who may be compelled to testify

 § 5941. Persons who may be compelled to testify. (a) General rule.--Except defendants actually upon trial in a criminal proceeding, any competent witness may be compelled to testify in any matter, civil or criminal; but he may not be compelled to answer any question which, in the opinion of the trial judge, would tend to incriminate him; nor may the neglect or refusal of any defendant, actually upon trial in a criminal proceeding, to offer himself as a witness, be treated as creating any presumption against him, or be adversely referred to by court or counsel during the trial.  (b) Judgment debtor.--A judgment debtor may be compelled to answer all pertinent questions at any examination concerning his property, but he shall not be prosecuted, or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture, for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except for perjury in giving such testimony.   (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)