PART 4. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 1855-2107›TITLE 2. OF THE KINDS AND DEGREES OF EVIDENCE 1878-1974›CHAPTER 3. Writings 1895-1953.13›ARTICLE 4. Records Destroyed in Fire or Calamity 1953-1953.06
§ 1953.01
California Code of Civil Procedure · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
Whenever in any action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of this State any record is lost, injured, or destroyed by reason of conflagration or other public calamity, any person interested therein may apply by a duly verified petition in writing to the court for an order authorizing such defect to be supplied by a duly certified copy of the original, where such copy can be obtained.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 52.)
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