Art. 1. Those Who Can Be Witnesses

Can. 1549 All persons can be witnesses unless the law expressly excludes them in whole or in part.

Can. 1550 §1. Minors below the fourteenth year of age and those of limited mental capacity are not allowed to give

testimony; they can, however, be heard by a decree of the judge which declares such a hearing expedient.

§2. The following are considered incapable:

1/ the parties in the case or those who stand for the parties at the trial, the judge and the judge’s assistants, the

advocate, and others who assist or have assisted the parties in the same case;

2/ priests regarding all matters which they have come to know from sacramental confession even if the

penitent seeks their disclosure; moreover, matters heard by anyone and in any way on the occasion of confession

cannot be accepted even as an indication of the truth.