Terms Used In California Codes > Evidence Code > Division 6 > Chapter 7 - Hypnosis of Witnesses

• Chief: means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. See California Business and Professions Code 7500.1
• Evidence: means testimony, writings, material objects, or other things presented to the senses that are offered to prove the existence or nonexistence of a fact. See California Evidence Code 140
• expert: means a physician and surgeon, including a psychiatrist, or any person described by subdivision (b), (c), or (e) of Section 1010. See California Evidence Code 240
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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