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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 43. EVIDENCE AND WITNESSES
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 4302. Competency to testify.
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§ 4302. Competency to testify.
No child under the age of 10 years may be excluded from giving testimony for the sole reason that such child does not understand the obligation of an oath. Such child's age and degree of understanding of the obligation of an oath may be considered by the trier of fact in judging the child's credibility.
65 Del. Laws, c. 111, § 1;
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