Terms Used In California Codes > Evidence Code > Division 8 > Chapter 1 - Definitions

• Action: includes a civil action and a criminal action. See California Evidence Code 105
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Director: means the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• hearing: means the hearing at which a question under this code arises, and not some earlier or later hearing. See California Evidence Code 145
• 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
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Evidence Code 175
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• 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

• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.