California Code of Civil Procedure ARTICLE 2 - Public Writings

• Section 1895.
  Laws, whether organic or ordinary, are either written or unwritten.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1896.
  A written law is that which is promulgated in writing, and of which a record is in existence.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1897.
  The organic law is the Constitution of Government, and is altogether written. Other written laws are denominated statutes. The written law of this State is...
• Section 1898.
  Statutes are public or private. A private statute is one which concerns only certain designated individuals, and affects only their private rights. All other statutes...
• Section 1899.
  Unwritten law is the law not promulgated and recorded, as mentioned in Section 1896, but which is, nevertheless, observed and administered in the Courts of...
• Section 1904.
  A judicial record is the record or official entry of the proceedings in a Court of justice, or of the official act of a judicial...
• Section 1908.
  (a) The effect of a judgment or final order in an action or special proceeding before a court or judge of this state, or of the...
• Section 1908.5.
  When a judgment or order of a court is conclusive, the judgment or order must be alleged in the pleadings if there be an opportunity...
• Section 1909.
  Other judicial orders of a Court or Judge of this State, or of the United States, create a disputable presumption, according to the matter directly...
• Section 1910.
  The parties are deemed to be the same when those between whom the evidence is offered were on opposite sides in the former case, and...
• Section 1911.
  That only is deemed to have been adjudged in a former judgment which appears upon its face to have been so adjudged, or which was...
• Section 1912.
  Whenever, pursuant to the last four sections, a party is bound by a record, and such party stands in the relation of a surety for...
• Section 1913.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), the effect of a judicial record of a sister state is the same in this state as in the state where...
• Section 1914.
  The effect of the judicial record of a Court of admiralty of a foreign country is the same as if it were the record of...
• Section 1916.
  Any judicial record may be impeached by evidence of a want of jurisdiction in the Court or judicial officer, of collusion between the parties, or...
• Section 1917.
  The jurisdiction sufficient to sustain a record is jurisdiction over the cause, over the parties, and over the thing, when a specific thing is the...

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