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2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 3 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 4 - Admitting and Excluding Evidence
ARTICLE 2 - Preliminary Determinations on Admissibility of Evidence
Section 400.
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CA Ev Code § 400 (2025)
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400. As used in this article, “preliminary fact” means a fact upon the existence or nonexistence of which depends the admissibility or inadmissibility of evidence. The phrase “the admissibility or inadmissibility of evidence” includes the qualification or disqualification of a person to be a witness and the existence or nonexistence of a privilege.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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