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2015 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
DIVISION 2 - PROPERTY
PART 3 - PERSONAL OR MOVABLE PROPERTY
TITLE 2 - PARTICULAR KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
CHAPTER 3 - Products of the Mind
Section 985.
CA Civ Code § 985 through (2015) Leg Sess What's This?
985. 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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