California Code
CHAPTER 3 - Issues The Mode of Trial and Postponements
Section 594a.

594a. The court may, of its own motion, postpone the trial, if at the time fixed for the trial the court is engaged in the trial of another action; or if, as provided in section 473 of this code, an amendment of the pleadings, or the allowance of time to make such amendment, or to plead, renders a postponement necessary.

(Added by Stats. 1933, Ch. 744.)