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California Evidence Code

§ 1242

EVID § 1242Div. 10 · Ch. 2 · Art. 4
Evidence of a statement made by a dying person respecting the cause and circumstances of his death is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement was made upon his personal knowledge and under a sense of immediately impending death.

Legislative history

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

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