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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 401.
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CA Ev Code § 401 (2025)
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401. As used in this article, “proffered evidence” means evidence, the admissibility or inadmissibility of which is dependent upon the existence or nonexistence of a preliminary fact.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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