Evid. Code, § 459 · Division 4. JUDICIAL NOTICE
Evid. Code, § 459
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) The reviewing court shall take judicial notice of (1) each matter properly noticed by the trial court and (2) each matter that the trial court was required to notice under Section 451 or 453. The reviewing court may take judicial notice of any matter specified in Section 452. The reviewing court may take judicial notice of a matter in a tenor different from that noticed by the trial court.
(b) In determining the propriety of taking judicial notice of a matter, or the tenor thereof, the reviewing court has the same power as the trial court under Section 454.
(c) When taking judicial notice under this section of a matter specified in Section 452 or in subdivision (f) of Section 451 that is of substantial consequence to the determination of the action, the reviewing court shall comply with the provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 455 if the matter was not theretofore judicially noticed in the action.
(d) In determining the propriety of taking judicial notice of a matter specified in Section 452 or in subdivision (f) of Section 451 that is of substantial consequence to the determination of the action, or the tenor thereof, if the reviewing court resorts to any source of information not received in open court or not included in the record of the action, including the advice of persons learned in the subject matter, the reviewing court shall afford each party reasonable opportunity to meet such information before judicial notice of the matter may be taken.
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History
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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California Rules of Court
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.252Judicial notice; findings and evidence on appealPrinted as Evidence Code section 459
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.520Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial noticePrinted as Evidence Code section 459
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.630Briefs by parties and amicus curiaePrinted as Evidence Code section 459
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.809Judicial noticePrinted as Evidence Code section 459
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 9.16.1Briefs by parties following grant of review by the Supreme CourtPrinted as Evidence Code section 459
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