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CHAPTER 1 - Burden of Proof
ARTICLE 1 - General
Section 500. - 500. Except as otherwise provided by law, a party has...
Section 501. - 501. Insofar as any statute, except Section 522, assigns the...
Section 502. - 502. The court on all proper occasions shall instruct the...
ARTICLE 2 - Burden of Proof on Specific Issues
Section 520. - 520. The party claiming that a person is guilty of...
Section 521. - 521. The party claiming that a person did not exercise...
Section 522. - 522. The party claiming that any person, including himself, is...
Section 523. - 523. In any action where the state is a party,...
Section 524. - 524. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a...
CHAPTER 2 - Burden of Producing Evidence
Section 550. - 550. (a) The burden of producing evidence as to a...
CHAPTER 3 - Presumptions and Inferences
Section 600. - 600. (a) A presumption is an assumption of fact that...
Section 601. - 601. A presumption is either conclusive or rebuttable. Every rebuttable...
Section 602. - 602. A statute providing that a fact or group of...
Section 603. - 603. A presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence is...
Section 604. - 604. The effect of a presumption affecting the burden of...
Section 605. - 605. A presumption affecting the burden of proof is a...
Section 606. - 606. The effect of a presumption affecting the burden of...
Section 607. - 607. When a presumption affecting the burden of proof operates...
ARTICLE 2 - Conclusive Presumptions
Section 620. - 620. The presumptions established by this article, and all other...
Section 622. - 622. The facts recited in a written instrument are conclusively...
Section 623. - 623. Whenever a party has, by his own statement or...
Section 624. - 624. A tenant is not permitted to deny the title...
ARTICLE 3 - Presumptions Affecting the Burden of Producing Evidence
Section 630. - 630. The presumptions established by this article, and all other...
Section 631. - 631. Money delivered by one to another is presumed to...
Section 632. - 632. A thing delivered by one to another is presumed...
Section 633. - 633. An obligation delivered up to the debtor is presumed...
Section 634. - 634. A person in possession of an order on himself...
Section 635. - 635. An obligation possessed by the creditor is presumed not...
Section 636. - 636. The payment of earlier rent or installments is presumed...
Section 637. - 637. The things which a person possesses are presumed to...
Section 638. - 638. A person who exercises acts of ownership over property...
Section 639. - 639. A judgment, when not conclusive, is presumed to correctly...
Section 640. - 640. A writing is presumed to have been truly dated....
Section 641. - 641. A letter correctly addressed and properly mailed is presumed...
Section 642. - 642. A trustee or other person, whose duty it was...
Section 643. - 643. A deed or will or other writing purporting to...
Section 644. - 644. A book, purporting to be printed or published by...
Section 645. - 645. A book, purporting to contain reports of cases adjudged...
Section 645.1. - 645.1. Printed materials, purporting to be a particular newspaper or...
Section 646. - 646. (a) As used in this section, “defendant” includes any...
Section 647. - 647. The return of a process server registered pursuant to...
ARTICLE 4 - Presumptions Affecting the Burden of Proof
Section 660. - 660. The presumptions established by this article, and all other...
Section 662. - 662. The owner of the legal title to property is...
Section 663. - 663. A ceremonial marriage is presumed to be valid. (Enacted...
Section 664. - 664. It is presumed that official duty has been regularly...
Section 665. - 665. A person is presumed to intend the ordinary consequences...
Section 666. - 666. Any court of this state or the United States,...
Section 667. - 667. A person not heard from in five years is...
Section 668. - 668. An unlawful intent is presumed from the doing of...
Section 669. - 669. (a) The failure of a person to exercise due...
Section 669.1. - 669.1. A rule, policy, manual, or guideline of state or...
Section 669.5. - 669.5. (a) Any ordinance enacted by the governing body of...
Section 670. - 670. (a) In any dispute concerning payment by means of...