DIVISION 2. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED [100. - 260.]
Division 2 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
§§ 100–260 · 32 sections
- § 100 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions govern the construction of this code.
- § 105 “Action” includes a civil action and a criminal action.
- § 110 “Burden of producing evidence” means the obligation of a party to introduce evidence sufficient to avoid a ruling against him on the issue.
- § 115 “Burden of proof” means the obligation of a party to establish by evidence a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of the trier of fact or…
- § 120 “Civil action” includes civil proceedings.
- § 125 “Conduct” includes all active and passive behavior, both verbal and nonverbal.
- § 130 “Criminal action” includes criminal proceedings.
- § 135 “Declarant” is a person who makes a statement.
- § 140 “Evidence” means testimony, writings, material objects, or other things presented to the senses that are offered to prove the existence or nonexistence of a…
- § 145 “The hearing” means the hearing at which a question under this code arises, and not some earlier or later hearing.
- § 150 “Hearsay evidence” is defined in Section 1200.
- § 160 “Law” includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law.
- § 165 “Oath” includes affirmation or declaration under penalty of perjury.
- § 170 “Perceive” means to acquire knowledge through one’s senses.
- § 175 “Person” includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity.
- § 177 “Dependent person” means a person, regardless of whether the person lives independently, who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially restricts…
- § 180 “Personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.
- § 185 “Property” includes both real and personal property.
- § 190 “Proof” is the establishment by evidence of a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of the trier of fact or the court.
- § 195 “Public employee” means an officer, agent, or employee of a public entity.
- § 200 “Public entity” includes a nation, state, county, city and county, city, district, public authority, public agency, or any other political subdivision or…
- § 205 “Real property” includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
- § 210 “Relevant evidence” means evidence, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declarant, having any tendency in reason to prove or…
- § 215 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
- § 220 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes any state, district,…
- § 225 “Statement” means (a) oral or written verbal expression or (b) nonverbal conduct of a person intended by him as a substitute for oral or written verbal…
- § 230 “Statute” includes a treaty and a constitutional provision.
- § 235 “Trier of fact” includes (a) the jury and (b) the court when the court is trying an issue of fact other than one relating to the admissibility of evidence.
- § 240 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), “unavailable as a witness” means that the declarant is any of the following: (1) Exempted or precluded on…
- § 250 “Writing” means handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other…
- § 255 “Original” means the writing itself or any counterpart intended to have the same effect by a person executing or issuing it. An “original” of a photograph…
- § 260 A “duplicate” is a counterpart produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix, or by means of photography, including enlargements and…