{"data":{"id":"us-ca/evid-1242","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"EVID § 1242","heading":"","body":"Evidence of a statement made by a dying person respecting the cause and circumstances of his death is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement was made upon his personal knowledge and under a sense of immediately impending death.","path":["Evidence Code - EVID","DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200. - 1390.]","CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220. - 1390.]","ARTICLE 4. Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations [1240. - 1242.]"],"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":"865e95808d5ce8bf6a5e17c340087eb3288e7b4ff97b6125f57bd84f7220f4e4","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/evid-1241","next":"us-ca/evid-1250"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}