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PART 4. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 1855-2107›TITLE 2. OF THE KINDS AND DEGREES OF EVIDENCE 1878-1974›CHAPTER 3. Writings 1895-1953.13›ARTICLE 4.5. Private Records Destroyed in Disaster or Calamity 1953.10-1953.13

§ 1953.10

California Code of Civil Procedure · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Any person, corporation, copartnership, organization, institution, business, member of profession or calling interested in establishing the existence, substance, genuineness, or authenticity of any memorandum, book, map, chart, manuscript, writing, account, entry, record, print, document, representation, or combination thereof that has been damaged, rendered wholly or partially illegible, destroyed in whole or in part or lost by explosion, conflagration, earthquake, disaster or other public calamity, may apply by duly verified petition to the court for an order establishing, reciting, or declaring the existence, substance, genuineness or authenticity of the same.

(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1311.)

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