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2011 California Code
Civil Code
DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654 - 1422]
CHAPTER 3. Products of the Mind
Section 985
CA Civ Code § 985 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?
Letters and other private communications in writing belong to the person to whom they are addressed and delivered; but they cannot be published against the will of the writer, except by authority of law.
(Enacted 1872.)
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