California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 2 - WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED

Section 100. - 100. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions...

Section 105. - 105. “Action” includes a civil action and a criminal action....

Section 110. - 110. “Burden of producing evidence” means the obligation of a...

Section 115. - 115. “Burden of proof” means the obligation of a party...

Section 120. - 120. “Civil action” includes civil proceedings. (Enacted by Stats. 1965,...

Section 125. - 125. “Conduct” includes all active and passive behavior, both verbal...

Section 130. - 130. “Criminal action” includes criminal proceedings. (Enacted by Stats. 1965,...

Section 135. - 135. “Declarant” is a person who makes a statement. (Enacted...

Section 140. - 140. “Evidence” means testimony, writings, material objects, or other things...

Section 145. - 145. “The hearing” means the hearing at which a question...

Section 150. - 150. “Hearsay evidence” is defined in Section 1200. (Enacted by...

Section 160. - 160. “Law” includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law. (Enacted by...

Section 165. - 165. “Oath” includes affirmation or declaration under penalty of perjury....

Section 170. - 170. “Perceive” means to acquire knowledge through one’s senses. (Enacted...

Section 175. - 175. “Person” includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership,...

Section 177. - 177. “Dependent person” means a person, regardless of whether the...

Section 180. - 180. “Personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action,...

Section 185. - 185. “Property” includes both real and personal property. (Enacted by...

Section 190. - 190. “Proof” is the establishment by evidence of a requisite...

Section 195. - 195. “Public employee” means an officer, agent, or employee of...

Section 200. - 200. “Public entity” includes a nation, state, county, city and...

Section 205. - 205. “Real property” includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments. (Enacted by...

Section 210. - 210. “Relevant evidence” means evidence, including evidence relevant to the...

Section 215. - 215. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 220. - 220. “State” means the State of California, unless applied to...

Section 225. - 225. “Statement” means (a) oral or written verbal expression or...

Section 230. - 230. “Statute” includes a treaty and a constitutional provision. (Enacted...

Section 235. - 235. “Trier of fact” includes (a) the jury and (b)...

Section 240. - 240. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), “unavailable...

Section 250. - 250. “Writing” means handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting...

Section 255. - 255. “Original” means the writing itself or any counterpart intended...

Section 260. - 260. A “duplicate” is a counterpart produced by the same...