The things which a person possesses are presumed to be owned by him.
Cal. Evid. Code § 637
Presumptions Affecting the Burden of Producing Evidence
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 4 Cal. 3d 461 - Caughlin v. Superior Court (1971)
Most recently applied in Lawrence v. Superior Court of San Mateo Cnty. (March 2018)
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.