Terms Used In California Codes > Evidence Code > Division 6 > Chapter 4 - Interpreters and Translators

• Action: includes a civil action and a criminal action. See California Evidence Code 105
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Chief: means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• City: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 18
• Civil action: includes civil proceedings. See California Evidence Code 120
• Conduct: includes all active and passive behavior, both verbal and nonverbal. See California Evidence Code 125
• County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
• Director: means the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• hearing: means the hearing at which a question under this code arises, and not some earlier or later hearing. See California Evidence Code 145
• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• Law: includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law. See California Evidence Code 160
• Legislative body: as used in this division , means board of supervisors in the case of a county or city and county, and city council or board of trustees in the case of a city, unless the context otherwise requires. See California Government Code 50002
• license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
• Licensee: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation licensed under this chapter as a repossession agency. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Local agency: as used in this division means county, city, or city and county, unless the context otherwise requires. See California Government Code 50001
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation or declaration under penalty of perjury. See California Evidence Code 165
• Person: includes any individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Evidence Code 175
• Probate: Proving a will
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Repossession: means any of the following:

  California Business and Professions Code 7500.1

• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Evidence Code 220
• Statement: means (a) oral or written verbal expression or (b) nonverbal conduct of a person intended by him as a substitute for oral or written verbal expression. See California Evidence Code 225
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Writing: means handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing, any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored. See California Evidence Code 250