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MR POWELL:       Oh no. MR TAYLOR:       This is what  I  said. MR. POWELL:      No, I submit that you never said that; you said that he was incapable of taking on oath.

MR TAYLOR: No, he said that all these forms of oaths were equally binding on him— COURT: And you argued therefore that none of them were binding. MR TAYLOR : I challenged the Court's attention to the fact then that none of those forms were binding on the witness or any witness who has such a moral sense that he will make an answer of that character, it is sufficient to disqualify him giving testimony. Now I understand that your Honor rules under those circumstances that he can affirm. COURT: Yes under Section 23 of the Canada Evidence Act, as he has been objected to as being incompetent to take on oath. MR. TAYLOR: I don't think you can say I objected to him taking an oath. COURT: Or that he is incompetent to take an oath ? MR TAYLOR: You cannot put it that way. MR. POWELL: He wants it changed now that he sees the box he has put himself in. MR. TAYLOR: I wont my objection recorded exactly as I made it , in the exact language, and you can draw whatever inference you choose from it, but I don't want the legal inference they draw put in my mouth. If my learned friends seek to say that amounts to an objection and then propose to found something on the strength of that, I object to that. BC Archives GR-0419 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Box 100 File 1904/10 Attorney General documents.