Cal. EVID § 1315
This is the official text of Cal. EVID § 1315, part of California’s Evidence Code — sets the rules for what evidence is admissible in California courts.
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Official statutory text
Evidence of a statement concerning a person’s birth, marriage, divorce, death, parent and child relationship, race, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar fact of family history which is contained in a writing made as a record of a church, religious denomination, or religious society is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if:
(a) The statement is contained in a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event that would be admissible as evidence of such act, condition, or event under Section 1271; and
(b) The statement is of a kind customarily recorded in connection with the act, condition, or event recorded in the writing.
(a) The statement is contained in a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event that would be admissible as evidence of such act, condition, or event under Section 1271; and
(b) The statement is of a kind customarily recorded in connection with the act, condition, or event recorded in the writing.
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