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Cal. Evid. Code § 660

Presumptions Affecting the Burden of Proof

Applied in 37 court decisions — leading case 13 Cal. 3d 68 - No Oil, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1974)

Most recently applied in In re Stevenson (January 2013)

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

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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.

The presumptions established by this article, and all other rebuttable presumptions established by law that fall within the criteria of Section 605, are presumptions affecting the burden of proof.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.