{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-985","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 985","heading":"","body":"Letters and other private communications in writing belong to the person to whom they are addressed and delivered; but they cannot be published against the will of the writer, except by authority of law.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654. - 1422.]","PART 3. PERSONAL OR MOVABLE PROPERTY [946. - 998.]","TITLE 2. PARTICULAR KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY [[953.] - 998.]","CHAPTER 3. Products of the Mind [980. - 989.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"073a5929591f1875086e0ab63e454686698ec6c8807ec343580b2fe864c46bad","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-984","next":"us-ca/civ-986"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}