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The California Evidence Code (abbreviated to Evid. Code in the California Style Manual) is a California code that was enacted by the California State Legislature on May 18, 1965 [1] to codify the formerly mostly common-law law of evidence. Section 351 of the Code effectively abolished any remnants of the law of evidence not explicitly included in it. [2] However, except for division 8, [3] the Evidence Code only applies to judicial proceedings in the California state courts, and do not apply to any legislative, administrative or arbitral proceedings. [4]

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References

  1. ^ Stats. 1965, Ch. 299, pp. 1297–1370
  2. ^ John R. McDonough, The California Evidence Code: A Precis, 18 Hastings Law Journal 89, 91 (1966).
  3. ^ Id. at 90-91 Cal. Evidence Code § 910
  4. ^ Cal. Evidence Code § 910

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