Code Civ. Proc., § 1953.01 · Article 4. Records Destroyed in Fire or Calamity
Code Civ. Proc., § 1953.01
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Whenever in any action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of this State any record is lost, injured, or destroyed by reason of conflagration or other public calamity, any person interested therein may apply by a duly verified petition in writing to the court for an order authorizing such defect to be supplied by a duly certified copy of the original, where such copy can be obtained.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 52.
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