California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

Section 2. - 2. This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on...

Section 3. - 3. No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so...

Section 4. - 4. The rule of the common law, that statutes in...

Section 5. - 5. The provisions of this Code, so far as they...

Section 6. - 6. All persons who at the time this Code takes...

Section 7. - 7. When any office is abolished by the repeal of...

Section 8. - 8. No action or proceeding commenced before this Code takes...

Section 9. - 9. When a limitation or period of time prescribed in...

Section 10. - 10. Holidays within the meaning of this code are every...

Section 11. - 11. Wherever any notice or other communication is required by...

Section 12. - 12. The time in which any act provided by law...

Section 12a. - 12a. (a) If the last day for the performance of...

Section 12b. - 12b. If any city, county, state, or public office, other...

Section 12c. - 12c. (a) Where any law requires an act to be...

Section 13. - 13. Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than...

Section 13a. - 13a. Any act required by law to be performed on...

Section 13b. - 13b. Any act required by law to be performed on...

Section 14. - 14. When the seal of a Court, public officer, or...

Section 15. - 15. Words giving a joint authority to three or more...

Section 16. - 16. Words and phrases are construed according to the context...

Section 17. - 17. (a) Words used in this code in the present...

Section 18. - 18. No statute, law, or rule is continued in force...

Section 19. - 19. This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended,...

Section 20. - 20. Judicial remedies are such as are administered by the...

Section 21. - 21. These remedies are divided into two classes: 1. Actions;...

Section 22. - 22. An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court...

Section 23. - 23. Every other remedy is a special proceeding. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 24. - 24. Actions are of two kinds: 1. Civil; and, 2....

Section 25. - 25. A civil action arises out of: 1. An obligation;...

Section 26. - 26. An obligation is a legal duty, by which one...

Section 27. - 27. An injury is of two kinds: 1. To the...

Section 28. - 28. An injury to property consists in depriving its owner...

Section 29. - 29. Every other injury is an injury to the person....

Section 30. - 30. A civil action is prosecuted by one party against...

Section 31. - 31. The Penal Code defines and provides for the prosecution...

Section 32. - 32. When the violation of a right admits of both...

Section 32.5. - 32.5. The “jurisdictional classification” of a case means its classification...

Section 33. - 33. A prosecuting attorney, in his or her discretion, may...

Section 34. - 34. An electronic signature, as defined in Section 17, by...