Confessions and Admissions
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 28 Cal. 4th 1059 - Dart Industries, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance Co. (2002)
Most recently applied in Osborne v. Todd Farm Service (May 2016)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Evidence of a statement offered against a party is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if:
(a) The statement was made by a person authorized by the party to make a statement or statements for him concerning the subject matter of the statement; and
(b) The evidence is offered either after admission of evidence sufficient to sustain a finding of such authority or, in the court’s discretion as to the order of proof, subject to the admission of such evidence.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.