California Evidence Code

{{Short description|California legal code}}

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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[https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1965/65Vol1_65Chapters.pdf#page=433 Stats. 1965, Ch. 299], pp. 1297–1370 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.{{bluebook journal |last=McDonough |first=John R. |title=The California Evidence Code: A Precis |url= https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1905&context=hastings_law_journal|year= 1966|volume= 18|journal= Hastings Law Journal|page= 89|pin= 91}} However, except for division 8,Id. at 90-91 {{CalEvid|910|}} the Evidence Code only applies to judicial proceedings in the California state courts, and do not apply to any legislative, administrative or arbitral proceedings.{{CalEvid|910|}}