A writing may be authenticated by anyone who saw the writing made or executed, including a subscribing witness.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1413
Means of Authenticating and Proving Writings
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 224 Cal. App. 3d 241 - O'LASKEY v. Sortino (1990)
Most recently applied in Golde v. Wilburn (May 2013)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.