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Evidence Code § 1242

ARTICLE 4. Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations

Current as of September 28, 2026Evid. Code, § 1242Official source ↗

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

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.