California Evidence Code DIVISION 2 - WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED

• Section 100.
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions govern the construction of this code.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 105.
  “Action” includes a civil action and a criminal action.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 110.
  “Burden of producing evidence” means the obligation of a party to introduce evidence sufficient to avoid a ruling against him on the issue.(Enacted by Stats....
• Section 115.
  “Burden of proof” means the obligation of a party to establish by evidence a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of...
• Section 120.
  “Civil action” includes civil proceedings.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 125.
  “Conduct” includes all active and passive behavior, both verbal and nonverbal.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 130.
  “Criminal action” includes criminal proceedings.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 135.
  “Declarant” is a person who makes a statement.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 140.
  “Evidence” means testimony, writings, material objects, or other things presented to the senses that are offered to prove the existence or nonexistence of a fact.(Enacted...
• Section 145.
  “The hearing” means the hearing at which a question under this code arises, and not some earlier or later hearing.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 150.
  “Hearsay evidence” is defined in Section 1200.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 160.
  “Law” includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 165.
  “Oath” includes affirmation or declaration under penalty of perjury.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 170.
  “Perceive” means to acquire knowledge through one’s senses.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 175.
  “Person” includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 103....
• Section 177.
  “Dependent person” means any person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially restricts his or her ability to carry out normal activities or...
• Section 180.
  “Personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 185.
  “Property” includes both real and personal property.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 190.
  “Proof” is the establishment by evidence of a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of the trier of fact or the...
• Section 195.
  “Public employee” means an officer, agent, or employee of a public entity.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 200.
  “Public entity” includes a nation, state, county, city and county, city, district, public authority, public agency, or any other political subdivision or public corporation, whether...
• Section 205.
  “Real property” includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 210.
  “Relevant evidence” means evidence, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declarant, having any tendency in reason to prove or disprove...
• Section 215.
  “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 32. (SB 1005) Effective January...
• Section 220.
  “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes any state, district,...
• Section 225.
  “Statement” means (a) oral or written verbal expression or (b) nonverbal conduct of a person intended by him as a substitute for oral or written...
• Section 230.
  “Statute” includes a treaty and a constitutional provision.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 235.
  “Trier of fact” includes (a) the jury and (b) the court when the court is trying an issue of fact other than one relating to...
• Section 240.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), “unavailable as a witness” means that the declarant is any of the following:(1) Exempted or precluded on the ground...
• Section 250.
  “Writing” means handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing, any...
• Section 255.
  “Original” means the writing itself or any counterpart intended to have the same effect by a person executing or issuing it. An “original” of a...
• Section 260.
  A “duplicate” is a counterpart produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix, or by means of photography, including enlargements...

Last modified: October 22, 2018