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2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 11 - WRITINGS
CHAPTER 1 - Authentication and Proof of Writings
ARTICLE 2 - Means of Authenticating and Proving Writings
Section 1421.
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CA Ev Code § 1421 (2025)
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1421. A writing may be authenticated by evidence that the writing refers to or states matters that are unlikely to be known to anyone other than the person who is claimed by the proponent of the evidence to be the author of the writing.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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