Edut

Hilchot Edut - The Laws of Witnesses

These laws contain 8 mitzvot: Three positive commandments and five negative commandments. They are:

1. For a person who knows testimony to testify in court,

2. To question and interrogate the witnesses,

3. For a witness who testified in a case involving capital punishment not to serve as a judge,

4. Not to carry out a judgment based on the testimony of one witness,

5. Not to accept a person who is a transgressor as a witness,

6. Not to accept a relative as a witness,

7. Not to testify falsely,

8. To punish an ed zomaim in the manner he wished to have the defendant punished,

The explanation of these mitzvot is found in the coming chapters.