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The refusal of one of two witnesses to give testimony.
Where a specific legal claim requires two qualifying testimonies, one witness alone does not complete the evidentiary foundation. The refusal of the second witness blocks completion of the legal ground on which the judgment would depend.
The example concerns cases requiring this form of proof. It is not a universal rule that a single person's information can never carry legal weight; the evidentiary requirements differ among legal contexts.