Evid. Code, § 7 · Division 1. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS AND CONSTRUCTION
Evid. Code, § 7
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Unless otherwise expressly stated:
(a) “Division” means a division of this code.
(b) “Chapter” means a chapter of the division in which that term occurs.
(c) “Article” means an article of the chapter in which that term occurs.
(d) “Section” means a section of this code.
(e) “Subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs.
(f) “Paragraph” means a paragraph of the subdivision in which that term occurs.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=EVID§ionNum=7.
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- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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