A letter correctly addressed and properly mailed is presumed to have been received in the ordinary course of mail.
Cal. Evid. Code § 641
Presumptions Affecting the Burden of Producing Evidence
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. App. 4th 1426 - Dill v. Berquist Construction Co. (1994)
Most recently applied in AO Alpha-Bank v. Yakovlev (March 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.