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Title 2: Of the Kinds and Degrees of Evidence | Chapter 3: Writings | Article 2: Public Writings

California Code of Civil Procedure – 2026

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Title 1: Of the General Principles of Evidence Chapter 2: Witnesses Article 2: Public Writings Article 3: Private Writings Article 4: Records Destroyed in Fire or Calamity Article 4.5: Private Records Destroyed in Disaster or Calamity Chapter 6: Indispensable Evidence Chapter 2: Means of Production Article 1: Mode of Taking the Testimony of Witnesses Article 2: Affidavits Chapter 1: General Provisions Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Scope of Discovery in Specific Contexts Article 3: Violation of the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act Chapter 4: Attorney Work Product Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Methods and Sequence of Discovery in Specific Contexts Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Procedures Applicable to All Types of Deposition Subpoenas Article 3: Subpoena Commanding Only Attendance and Testimony of the Deponent Article 4: Subpoena Commanding Only Production of Business Records for Copying Article 5: Subpoena Commanding Both Production of Business Records and Attendance and Testimony of the Deponent Chapter 7: Sanctions Chapter 8: Time for Completion of Discovery Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Deposition Notice Article 3: Conduct of Deposition Article 4: Objections, Sanctions, Protective Orders, Motions to Compel, and Suspension of Depositions Article 5: Transcript or Recording Article 6: Post-Deposition Procedures Chapter 10: Oral Deposition Outside California Chapter 11: Deposition by Written Questions Article 1: Interstate and International Depositions and Discovery Act Article 1: Propounding Interrogatories Article 2: Response to Interrogatories Article 3: Use of Interrogatory Answer Article 1: Inspection Demand Article 2: Response to Inspection Demand Article 3: Inspection and Production of Documents and Other Property in Specific Contexts Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Physical Examination of Personal Injury Plaintiff Article 3: Motion for Physical or Mental Examination Article 4: Failure To Submit To or Produce Another for Physical or Mental Examination Article 5: Conduct of Examination Article 6: Reports of Examination Article 1: Requests For Admission Article 2: Response to Requests For Admission Article 3: Effect of Admission Chapter 17: Form Interrogatories and Requests for Admission Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Demand for Exchange of Expert Witness Information Article 3: Deposition of Expert Witness Article 4: Motion To Augment or Amend Expert Witness List or Declaration Article 5: Motion To Submit Tardy Expert Witness Information Chapter 19: Perpetuation of Testimony or Preservation of Evidence Before Filing Action Chapter 20: Perpetuation of Testimony or Preservation of Information Pending Appeal Title 5: Of the Rights and Duties of Witnesses Chapter 1: Evidence in Particular Cases [2074 - [2077.]] Chapter 3: Administration of Oaths and Affirmations Title 7: Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act
§ 1895 Laws, whether organic or ordinary, are either written or unwritten. § 1896 A written law is that which is promulgated in writing, and of which a record is in existence. § 1897 The organic law is the Constitution of Government, and is altogether written. Other written laws are denominated statutes. § 1898 Statutes are public or private. A private statute is one which concerns only certain designated individuals, and affects only their private rights. § 1899 Unwritten law is the law not promulgated and recorded, as mentioned in Section 1896, but which is, nevertheless, observed and administered in the Cour… § 1904 A judicial record is the record or official entry of the proceedings in a Court of justice, or of the official act of a judicial officer, in an action… § 1908 (a) The effect of a judgment or final order in an action or special proceeding before a court or judge of this state, or of the United States, having … § 1908.5 When a judgment or order of a court is conclusive, the judgment or order must be alleged in the pleadings if there be an opportunity to do so; if ther… § 1909 Other judicial orders of a Court or Judge of this State, or of the United States, create a disputable presumption, according to the matter directly de… § 1910 The parties are deemed to be the same when those between whom the evidence is offered were on opposite sides in the former case, and a judgment or oth… § 1911 That only is deemed to have been adjudged in a former judgment which appears upon its face to have been so adjudged, or which was actually and necessa… § 1912 Whenever, pursuant to the last four sections, a party is bound by a record, and such party stands in the relation of a surety for another, the latter … § 1913 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), the effect of a judicial record of a sister state is the same in this state as in the state where it was made, except … § 1914 The effect of the judicial record of a Court of admiralty of a foreign country is the same as if it were the record of a Court of admiralty of the Uni… § 1916 Any judicial record may be impeached by evidence of a want of jurisdiction in the Court or judicial officer, of collusion between the parties, or of f… § 1917 The jurisdiction sufficient to sustain a record is jurisdiction over the cause, over the parties, and over the thing, when a specific thing is the sub…