ARTICLE 2. Public Writings [1895. - 1917.]

Article 2 enacted 1872.

§§ 1895–1917 · 16 sections

• § 1895 Laws, whether organic or ordinary, are either written or unwritten.
• § 1896 A written law is that which is promulgated in writing, and of which a record is in existence.
• § 1897 The organic law is the Constitution of Government, and is altogether written. Other written laws are denominated statutes. The written law of this State is…
• § 1898 Statutes are public or private. A private statute is one which concerns only certain designated individuals, and affects only their private rights. All other…
• § 1899 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…
• § 1904 A judicial record is the record or official entry of the proceedings in a Court of justice, or of the official act of a judicial officer, in an action or…
• § 1908 (a) The effect of a judgment or final order in an action or special proceeding before a court or judge of this state, or of the United States, having…
• § 1908.5 When a judgment or order of a court is conclusive, the judgment or order must be alleged in the pleadings if there be an opportunity to do so; if there be no…
• § 1909 Other judicial orders of a Court or Judge of this State, or of the United States, create a disputable presumption, according to the matter directly determined,…
• § 1910 The parties are deemed to be the same when those between whom the evidence is offered were on opposite sides in the former case, and a judgment or other…
• § 1911 That only is deemed to have been adjudged in a former judgment which appears upon its face to have been so adjudged, or which was actually and necessarily…
• § 1912 Whenever, pursuant to the last four sections, a party is bound by a record, and such party stands in the relation of a surety for another, the latter is also…
• § 1913 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), the effect of a judicial record of a sister state is the same in this state as in the state where it was made, except that it…
• § 1914 The effect of the judicial record of a Court of admiralty of a foreign country is the same as if it were the record of a Court of admiralty of the United…
• § 1916 Any judicial record may be impeached by evidence of a want of jurisdiction in the Court or judicial officer, of collusion between the parties, or of fraud in…
• § 1917 The jurisdiction sufficient to sustain a record is jurisdiction over the cause, over the parties, and over the thing, when a specific thing is the subject of…