To what facts evidence may be given.
Section 298
SEC. 298. To what facts evidence may be given. — In conformity with the preceding provisions evidence may be given upon a trial of the following facts: 1. The precise fact in dispute; 2. The act, declaration, or omission of a party as evidence against such party; 3. An act or declaration of another in the presence and within the observation of a party, and his conduct in relation thereto, where the act or declaration is such as naturally to call for action or comment by such party; 4. The act of declaration, verbal or written, of a deceased person, or a person not in the Philippine Islands, in respect to the relationship, birth, marriage, or death of any person related by blood or marriage to such deceased person or person not in the Philippine Islands; the act or declaration of a deceased person done or made against his interests in respect to his real property; 5. After proof of a partnership or agency, the act of declaration of a partner or agent of the party within the scope of the partnership or agency during its existence. The same rule applies to the act or declaration of a joint owner, or joint debtor, or other person jointly interested with the party; 6. After proof of a conspiracy, the act or declaration of a conspirator relating to the conspiracy; 7. The act, declaration, or omission forming part of a transaction; 8. The testimony of a witness deceased or out of the jurisdiction, or unable to testify, given in a former action between the same parties, relating to the same matter; 9. The opinion of a witness respecting the identity or handwriting of a person, when he has knowledge of the person or handwriting; his opinion on a question of science, art, or trade, when he is skilled therein; 10. The opinion of a subscribing witness to a writing, the validity of which is in dispute, respecting the mental sanity of the signer; and the opinion of an intimate acquaintance respecting the matter of sanity of a person, the reason for the opinion being given; 11. Common reputation existing previous to the controversy, respecting facts of a public or general interest more than thirty years old, and in cases of pedigree and boundary; 12. Usage, to explain the true character of an act, contract, or instrument, where such true character is not otherwise plain; but usage is never admissible except as an instrument of interpretation; 13. Monument and inscription in public places, as evidence of common reputation; and entries in family bibles or other family books or charts; engravings on rings, family portraits and the like, as evidence of pedigree; 14. The contents of a writing, when oral evidence thereof is admissible; 15. Any other facts from which the facts in issue are presumed or are logically inferable; 16. Such facts as serve to show the credibility of a witness by affecting his reputation for truth, and by showing his motives, and by evidence of contradictory statements made by him as to the subject matter of his evidence.