RCW 12.08.040
Docketing or filing.
When the pleadings are oral, the substance of them shall be entered by the justice in his or her docket. When in writing they shall be filed in his or her office and a reference made to them in his or her docket. Pleadings shall not be required to be in any particular form, but shall be such as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended.
[ 2010 c 8 § 3018; Code 1881 § 1759; 1873 p 345 § 58; 1854 p 231 § 46; RRS § 1781.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 12 - District Courts—Civil Procedure
12.08.010 - When pleadings take place.
12.08.020 - What constitute pleadings.
12.08.030 - Pleadings oral or written.
12.08.040 - Docketing or filing.
12.08.050 - Denial of knowledge or information—Effect.
12.08.060 - Pleading account or instrument.
12.08.080 - Uncontroverted allegations—Effect.
12.08.090 - Objections to pleadings—Amendment.
12.08.100 - Variance between pleading and proof.