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Evidence Code - EVID

DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200 - 1390]

  ( Division 10 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299. )
  

CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220 - 1390]

  ( Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299. )
  

ARTICLE 4. Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations [1240 - 1242]
  ( Article 4 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299. )

  
1242.  

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.

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)