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2011 California Code
Evidence Code
DIVISION 11. WRITINGS [1400 - 1605]
ARTICLE 2. Official Writings and Recorded Writings
Section 1531


CA Ev Code § 1531 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

For the purpose of evidence, whenever a copy of a writing is attested or certified, the attestation or certificate must state in substance that the copy is a correct copy of the original, or of a specified part thereof, as the case may be.

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

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