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2011 California Code
Evidence Code
DIVISION 5. BURDEN OF PROOF; BURDEN OF PRODUCING EVIDENCE; PRESUMPTIONS AND INFERENCES [500 - 670]
ARTICLE 2. Conclusive Presumptions
Section 623


CA Ev Code § 623 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Whenever a party has, by his own statement or conduct, intentionally and deliberately led another to believe a particular thing true and to act upon such belief, he is not, in any litigation arising out of such statement or conduct, permitted to contradict it.

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)

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