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CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 501. - 501. A person may not be imprisoned in a civil...
CHAPTER 2 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property
ARTICLE 1 - Words and Phrases Defined
Section 511.010. - 511.010. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions...
Section 511.020. - 511.020. “Complaint” includes a cross-complaint. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch....
Section 511.030. - 511.030. “Defendant” includes a cross-defendant. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch....
Section 511.040. - 511.040. “Farm products” means crops or livestock or supplies used...
Section 511.050. - 511.050. “Inventory” means tangible personal property in the possession of...
Section 511.060. - 511.060. “Levying officer” means the sheriff or marshal who is...
Section 511.070. - 511.070. “Person” includes an individual, a corporation, a partnership or...
Section 511.080. - 511.080. “Plaintiff” means a person who files a complaint or...
Section 511.090. - 511.090. A claim has “probable validity” where it is more...
Section 511.100. - 511.100. “Public entity” includes the state, the Regents of the...
ARTICLE 2 - Writ of Possession
Section 512.010. - 512.010. (a) Upon the filing of the complaint or at...
Section 512.020. - 512.020. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no...
Section 512.030. - 512.030. (a) Prior to the hearing required by subdivision (a)...
Section 512.040. - 512.040. The “Notice of Application and Hearing” shall inform the...
Section 512.050. - 512.050. Each party shall file with the court and serve...
Section 512.060. - 512.060. (a) At the hearing, a writ of possession shall...
Section 512.070. - 512.070. If a writ of possession is issued, the court...
Section 512.080. - 512.080. The writ of possession shall meet all of the...
Section 512.090. - 512.090. (a) The plaintiff may apply ex parte in writing...
Section 512.100. - 512.100. Neither the failure of the defendant to oppose the...
Section 512.110. - 512.110. The determinations of the court under this chapter shall...
Section 512.120. - 512.120. If the plaintiff fails to recover judgment in the...
ARTICLE 3 - Temporary Restraining Order
Section 513.010. - 513.010. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the...
Section 513.020. - 513.020. In the discretion of the court, the temporary restraining...
ARTICLE 4 - Levy and Custody
Section 514.010. - 514.010. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, upon...
Section 514.020. - 514.020. (a) At the time of levy, the levying officer...
Section 514.030. - 514.030. (a) After the levying officer takes possession pursuant to...
Section 514.040. - 514.040. The levying officer shall return the writ of possession,...
Section 514.050. - 514.050. Where the property taken is claimed by a third...
ARTICLE 5 - Undertakings
Section 515.010. - 515.010. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the court...
Section 515.020. - 515.020. (a) The defendant may prevent the plaintiff from taking...
Section 515.030. - 515.030. (a) The defendant may object to the plaintiff’s undertaking...
ARTICLE 6 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 516.010. - 516.010. The Judicial Council may provide by rule for the...
Section 516.020. - 516.020. The Judicial Council shall prescribe the form of the...
Section 516.030. - 516.030. The facts stated in each affidavit filed pursuant to...
Section 516.040. - 516.040. The judicial duties to be performed under this chapter...
Section 516.050. - 516.050. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the granting of...
CHAPTER 3 - Injunction
Section 525. - 525. An injunction is a writ or order requiring a...
Section 526. - 526. (a) An injunction may be granted in the following...
Section 526a. - 526a. (a) An action to obtain a judgment, restraining and...
Section 526b. - 526b. Every person or corporation bringing, instigating, exciting or abetting,...
Section 527. - 527. (a) A preliminary injunction may be granted at any...
Section 527.3. - 527.3. (a) In order to promote the rights of workers...
Section 527.6. - 527.6. (a) (1) A person who has suffered harassment as...
Section 527.7. - 527.7. (a) It shall be unlawful for any group, association,...
Section 527.8. - 527.8. (a) Any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence...
Section 527.85. - 527.85. (a) Any chief administrative officer of a postsecondary educational...
Section 527.9. - 527.9. (a) A person subject to a temporary restraining order...
Section 527.10. - 527.10. (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined...
Section 528. - 528. An injunction cannot be allowed after the defendant has...
Section 529. - 529. (a) On granting an injunction, the court or judge...
Section 529.1. - 529.1. (a) In all actions in which the court has...
Section 529.2. - 529.2. (a) In all civil actions, including, but not limited...
Section 530. - 530. In all actions which may be hereafter brought when...
Section 531. - 531. An injunction to suspend the general and ordinary business...
Section 532. - 532. (a) If an injunction is granted without notice to...
Section 533. - 533. In any action, the court may on notice modify...
Section 534. - 534. In any action brought by a riparian owner to...
CHAPTER 5 - Receivers
Section 564. - 564. (a) A receiver may be appointed, in the manner...
Section 565. - 565. Upon the dissolution of any corporation, the Superior Court...
Section 566. - 566. (a) No party, or attorney of a party, or...
Section 567. - 567. Before entering upon the duties of a receiver: (a)...
Section 568. - 568. The receiver has, under the control of the Court,...
Section 568.1. - 568.1. Any securities in the hands of a receiver may,...
Section 568.2. - 568.2. (a) A receiver of real property containing rental housing...
Section 568.3. - 568.3. Any tenant of real property that is subject to...
Section 568.5. - 568.5. A receiver may, pursuant to an order of the...
Section 568.6. - 568.6. A receiver appointed at the request of the Public...
Section 569. - 569. Funds in the hands of a receiver may be...
Section 570. - 570. A receiver having any funds in his hands belonging...
CHAPTER 5A - Undertaking of Persons Handling Private Property or Funds
Section 571. - 571. If a referee or commissioner is appointed by a...
CHAPTER 6 - Deposit in Court
Section 572. - 572. When it is admitted by the pleadings, or shown...
Section 573. - 573. Whenever money is paid into or deposited in the...
Section 574. - 574. Whenever, in the exercise of its authority, a court...