Partisan prejudice: testimony is inadmissible from anyone known to be swayed by it—for instance, when members of one faction side with their own against another—even if the bias has not yet reached the level of open enmity.

If a person’s testimony was first rejected because of his flagrant sin, and he then repents and repeats it; or if he had testified on behalf of someone from whom he stands to inherit concerning an unhealed injury, then the injury heals and he submits the testimony anew; or if it was initially dismissed on account of averting harm, procuring benefit, enmity, proprietary interest, or a marital tie, and that cause subsequently disappears and the testimony is offered again—in all such cases the renewed testimony is accepted. This is unlike the situation where he had testified while still an unbeliever, not legally competent, or mute, and afterward that impediment ceased and he repeated his testimony; in that scenario the repetition is not accepted.