{"code":"CCP","codeName":"Code of Civil Procedure","section":"1899","citation":"Code Civ. Proc., § 1899","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"PART 4. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS [1855. - 2107.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4"},{"name":"TITLE 2. OF THE KINDS AND DEGREES OF EVIDENCE [1878. - 1974.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4/title-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 3. Writings [1895. - 1953.13.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4/title-2/chapter-3"},{"name":"ARTICLE 2. Public Writings [1895. - 1917.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4/title-2/chapter-3/article-2"}],"history":"Enacted 1872.","effective":null,"html":"<p>Unwritten law is the law not promulgated and recorded, as mentioned in Section <a href=\"/ccp/1896\">1896</a>, but which is, nevertheless, observed and administered in the Courts of the country. It has no certain repository, but is collected from the reports of the decisions of the Courts, and the treatises of learned men.</p>","text":"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 the country. It has no certain repository, but is collected from the reports of the decisions of the Courts, and the treatises of learned men.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/public-writings-1899","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}