Evidence Code: Enacted in 1965, the new Evidence Code consolidated and revised the laws relating to evidence found in early uncodified acts and those codified in the 1872 Code of Civil Procedure statutes. The 1965 codification was generated by the California Law Revision Commission, which took on the extensive revision of this area of the law.
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Evidence Code Sections
Section 351.2: Added in 2016.
Section 703.5: Added in 1979 and amended six times thereafter.
Section 721: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1872, enacted in 1937.
Section 783: Added in 1985 and ever amended.
Section 813: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1845.5, enacted in 1957.
Sections 816 and 822: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1845.5, enacted in 1957.
Section 822: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1845.5, enacted in 1957.
Section 952: Derived from former uncodified §§ 395, 396, 397, 398 and 399 of the 1851 Practice Act.
Section 958: Derived from former uncodified §§ 395, 396, 397, 398 and 399 of the 1851 Practice Act.
Sections 970, 971 and 973: Derived from former uncodified § 395, added in 1851.
Section 1032: Derived from Practice Act §§ 395 – 399, adopted in 1851.
Section 1115: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1775.1, enacted in 1993.
Section 1123: Derived from former Evidence Code § 1152.5, added in 1985.
Section 1157: Enacted in 1968.
Section 1292: Derived from former Code of Civil Procedure § 1870(8), enacted in 1872.
Section 1523: Derived from former uncodified §§ 447, 449 and 450, enacted in 1851.