2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 11 - WRITINGS
CHAPTER 2 - Secondary Evidence of Writings
ARTICLE 2 - Official Writings and Recorded Writings
Section 1531.

Universal Citation:
CA Ev Code § 1531 (2025)
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1531. 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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