California

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP

3,424 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 2033.720 — (a) The Judicial Council shall develop and approve official form interrogatories for use by a victim who has not received complete payment of a restitution order made pursuant to Section 1202.
• § 2033.730 — (a) In developing the form interrogatories and requests for admission required by Sections 2033.
• § 2033.740 — (a) Use of the form interrogatories and requests for admission approved by the Judicial Council shall be optional.
• § 2034.010 — This chapter does not apply to exchanges of lists of experts and valuation data in eminent domain proceedings under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 1258.
• § 2034.210 — After the setting of the initial trial date for the action, any party may obtain discovery by demanding that all parties simultaneously exchange information concerning each other’s expert trial witnes
• § 2034.220 — Any party may make a demand for an exchange of information concerning expert trial witnesses without leave of court.
• § 2034.230 — (a) A demand for an exchange of information concerning expert trial witnesses shall be in writing and shall identify, below the title of the case, the party making the demand.
• § 2034.240 — The party demanding an exchange of information concerning expert trial witnesses shall serve the demand on all parties who have appeared in the action.
• § 2034.250 — (a) A party who has been served with a demand to exchange information concerning expert trial witnesses may promptly move for a protective order.
• § 2034.260 — (a) All parties who have appeared in the action shall exchange information concerning expert witnesses in writing on or before the date of exchange specified in the demand.
• § 2034.270 — If a demand for an exchange of information concerning expert trial witnesses includes a demand for production of reports and writings as described in subdivision (c) of Section 2034.
• § 2034.280 — (a) Within 20 days after the exchange described in Section 2034.
• § 2034.290 — (a) A demand for an exchange of information concerning expert trial witnesses, and any expert witness lists and declarations exchanged shall not be filed with the court.
• § 2034.300 — Except as provided in Section 2034.
• § 2034.310 — A party may call as a witness at trial an expert not previously designated by that party if either of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) That expert has been designated by another party and ha
• § 2034.410 — On receipt of an expert witness list from a party, any other party may take the deposition of any person on the list.
• § 2034.415 — An expert described in subdivision (b) of Section 2034.
• § 2034.420 — The deposition of any expert described in subdivision (b) of Section 2034.
• § 2034.430 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), this section applies to an expert witness, other than a party or an employee of a party, who is any of the following: (1) An expert described in subdivision
• § 2034.440 — The party designating an expert is responsible for any fee charged by the expert for preparing for a deposition and for traveling to the place of the deposition, as well as for any travel expenses of
• § 2034.450 — (a) The party taking the deposition of an expert witness shall either accompany the service of the deposition notice with a tender of the expert’s fee based on the anticipated length of the deposition
• § 2034.460 — (a) The service of a proper deposition notice accompanied by the tender of the expert witness fee described in Section 2034.
• § 2034.470 — (a) If a party desiring to take the deposition of an expert witness under this article deems that the hourly or daily fee of that expert for providing deposition testimony is unreasonable, that party
• § 2034.610 — (a) On motion of any party who has engaged in a timely exchange of expert witness information, the court may grant leave to do either or both of the following: (1) Augment that party’s expert witness
• § 2034.620 — The court shall grant leave to augment or amend an expert witness list or declaration only if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The court has taken into account the extent to which th
• § 2034.630 — The court shall impose a monetary sanction under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 2023.
• § 2034.710 — (a) On motion of any party who has failed to submit expert witness information on the date specified in a demand for that exchange, the court may grant leave to submit that information on a later date
• § 2034.720 — The court shall grant leave to submit tardy expert witness information only if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The court has taken into account the extent to which the opposing part
• § 2034.730 — The court shall impose a monetary sanction under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 2023.
• § 2035.010 — (a) One who expects to be a party or expects a successor in interest to be a party to an action that may be cognizable in a court of the state, whether as a plaintiff, or as a defendant, or in any oth
• § 2035.020 — The methods available for discovery conducted for the purposes set forth in Section 2035.
• § 2035.030 — (a) One who desires to perpetuate testimony or preserve evidence for the purposes set forth in Section 2035.
• § 2035.040 — (a) The petitioner shall cause service of a notice of the petition under Section 2035.
• § 2035.050 — (a) If the court determines that all or part of the discovery requested under this chapter may prevent a failure or delay of justice, it shall make an order authorizing that discovery.
• § 2035.060 — If a deposition to perpetuate testimony has been taken either under the provisions of this chapter, or under comparable provisions of the laws of the state in which it was taken, or the federal courts
• § 2036.010 — If an appeal has been taken from a judgment entered by a court of the state, or if the time for taking an appeal has not expired, a party may obtain discovery within the scope delimited by Chapter 2 (
• § 2036.020 — The methods available for discovery for the purpose set forth in Section 2036.
• § 2036.030 — (a) A party who desires to obtain discovery pending appeal shall obtain leave of the court that entered the judgment.
• § 2036.040 — (a) If the court determines that all or part of the discovery requested under this chapter may prevent a failure or delay of justice in the event of further proceedings in the action in that court, it
• § 2036.050 — If a deposition to perpetuate testimony has been taken under the provisions of this chapter, it may be used in any later proceeding in accordance with Section 2025.
• § 204 — (a) No eligible person shall be exempt from service as a trial juror by reason of occupation, economic status, or any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135 of the Government Code, or for a
• § 205 — (a) If a jury commissioner requires a person to complete a questionnaire, the questionnaire shall ask only questions related to juror identification, qualification, and ability to serve as a prospecti
• § 206 — (a) Prior to discharging the jury from the case, the judge in a criminal action shall inform the jurors that they have an absolute right to discuss or not to discuss the deliberation or verdict with a
• § 2064 — A witness, served with a subpoena, must attend at the time appointed, with any papers under his control lawfully required by the subpoena, and answer all pertinent and legal questions; and, unless soo
• § 2065 — Any witness who is subpoenaed in any civil or administrative action or proceeding shall be given written notice on the subpoena that the witness may be entitled to receive fees and mileage.
• § 207 — (a) The jury commissioner shall maintain records regarding selection, qualification, and assignment of prospective jurors.
• § 2074 — An offer in writing to pay a particular sum of money, or to deliver a written instrument or specific personal property, is, if not accepted, equivalent to the actual production and tender of the money
• § 2075 — Whoever pays money, or delivers an instrument or property, is entitled to a receipt therefor from the person to whom the payment or delivery is made, and may demand a proper signature to such receipt
• § 2076 — The person to whom a tender is made must, at the time, specify any objection he may have to the money, instrument, or property, or he must be deemed to have waived it; and if the objection be to the a
• § 208 — The jury commissioner shall estimate the number of prospective jurors that may be required to serve the needs of the court, and shall summon prospective jurors for service.
• § 209 — (a) Any prospective trial juror who has been summoned for service, and who fails to attend as directed or to respond to the court or jury commissioner and to be excused from attendance, may be attache
• § 2093 — (a) A court, judge or clerk of a court, justice, notary public, and officer or person authorized to take testimony in an action or proceeding, or to decide upon evidence, has the power to administer o
• § 2094 — (a) An oath, affirmation, or declaration in an action or a proceeding, may be administered by obtaining an affirmative response to one of the following questions: (1) “Do you solemnly state that the e
• § 21 — These remedies are divided into two classes: 1.
• § 210 — The summons shall contain the date, time, and place of appearance required of the prospective juror or, alternatively, instructions as to the procedure for calling the jury commissioner for telephonic
• § 210.5 — The Judicial Council shall adopt a standardized jury summons for use, with appropriate modifications, around the state, that is understandable and has consumer appeal.
• § 2100 — This title applies only to federal tax liens and to other federal liens notices of which under any Act of Congress or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto are required or permitted to be filed in t
• § 2101 — (a) Notices of liens, certificates, and other notices affecting federal tax liens or other federal liens must be filed in accordance with this title.
• § 2102 — Certification of notices of liens, certificates, or other notices affecting federal liens by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or his or her delegate, or by any official or entity of
• § 2103 — (a) If a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of any certificate described in subdivision (b) is presented to a filing officer who is: (1) The Secr
• § 2104 — The fee charged for recording and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien filed with the county recorder shall be the same as those established by Article 5 (commencin
• § 2105 — Filing officers with whom notices of federal tax liens, certificates and notices affecting such liens have been filed on or before January 1, 1968, shall, after that date, continue to maintain a file
• § 2106 — This title shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this title among states enacting it.
• § 2106.5 — This title shall be applied and construed to permit the transmission, filing, recording, and indexing of notices of federal tax liens and all certificates that relate to or affect those liens, includi
• § 2107 — This title may be cited as the Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act.
• § 211 — When a court has no prospective jurors remaining available for voir dire from panels furnished by, or available from, the jury commissioner, and finds that not proceeding with voir dire will place a p
• § 213 — Unless excused by reason of undue hardship, all or any portion of the summoned prospective jurors shall be available on one-hour notice by telephone to appear for service, when the jury commissioner d
• § 214 — The jury commissioner shall provide orientation for new jurors, which shall include necessary basic information concerning jury service.
• § 215 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2000, the fee for jurors in the superior court, in civil and criminal cases, is fifteen dollars ($15) a day for each day’s attendance as
• § 216 — (a) At each court facility where jury cases are heard, the court shall provide a deliberation room or rooms for use of jurors when they have retired for deliberation.
• § 217 — In criminal cases only, while the jury is kept together, either during the progress of the trial or after their retirement for deliberation, the court may direct the sheriff or marshal to provide the
• § 218 — The jury commissioner shall hear the excuses of jurors summoned, in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Judicial Council.
• § 219 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the jury commissioner shall randomly select jurors for jury panels to be sent to courtrooms for voir dire.
• § 219.5 — The Judicial Council shall adopt a rule of court, on or before January 1, 2005, requiring the trial courts to establish procedures for jury service that gives peace officers, as defined by Section 830
• § 22 — An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice by which one party prosecutes another for the declaration, enforcement, or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the
• § 220 — A trial jury shall consist of 12 persons, except that in civil actions and cases of misdemeanor, it may consist of 12 or any number less than 12, upon which the parties may agree.
• § 222 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), when an action is called for trial by jury, the clerk shall randomly select the names of the jurors for voir dire, until the jury is selected or the panel is
• § 222.5 — (a) To select a fair and impartial jury in a civil jury trial, the trial judge shall conduct an initial examination of prospective jurors.
• § 223 — (a) To select a fair and impartial jury in a criminal jury trial, the trial judge shall conduct an initial examination of prospective jurors.
• § 224 — (a) If a party does not cause the removal by challenge of an individual juror who is deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or speech impaired and who requires auxiliary services to facilita
• § 225 — A challenge is an objection made to the trial jurors that may be taken by any party to the action, and is of the following classes and types: (a) A challenge to the trial jury panel for cause.
• § 226 — (a) A challenge to an individual juror may only be made before the jury is sworn.
• § 227 — The challenges of either party for cause need not all be taken at once, but they may be taken separately, in the following order, including in each challenge all the causes of challenge belonging to t
• § 228 — Challenges for general disqualification may be taken on one or both of the following grounds, and for no other: (a) A want of any of the qualifications prescribed by this code to render a person compe
• § 229 — A challenge for implied bias may be taken for one or more of the following causes, and for no other: (a) Consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree to any party, to an officer of a corporation
• § 23 — Every other remedy is a special proceeding.
• § 230 — Challenges for cause shall be tried by the court.
• § 231 — (a) In criminal cases, if the offense charged is punishable with death, or with imprisonment in the state prison for life, the defendant is entitled to 20 and the people to 20 peremptory challenges.
• § 231.5 — A party shall not use a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the prospective juror is biased merely because of a characteristic listed or defined in Se
• § 231.7 — (a) A party shall not use a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of the prospective juror’s race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or
• § 232 — (a) Prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, the following perjury acknowledgment and agreement shall
• § 233 — If, before the jury has returned its verdict to the court, a juror becomes sick or, upon other good cause shown to the court, is found to be unable to perform his or her duty, the court may order the
• § 234 — Whenever, in the opinion of a judge of a superior court about to try a civil or criminal action or proceeding, the trial is likely to be a protracted one, or upon stipulation of the parties, the court
• § 235 — At the request of the sheriff, coroner, or other ministerial officer, the jury commissioner shall provide such prospective jurors as may be required to form a jury of inquest.
• § 236 — When six or more prospective jurors of inquest attend, they shall be sworn by the coroner to inquire who the person was, and when, where, and by what means the person came to his or her death, to inqu
• § 237 — (a) (1) The names of qualified jurors drawn from the qualified juror list for the superior court shall be made available to the public upon request unless the court determines that a compelling intere
• § 24 — Actions are of two kinds: 1.
• § 242 — (a) Following the receipt of a verdict and before discharging the jury in a criminal action or proceeding alleging a violent felony, the court shall provide written information to the trial jurors abo
• § 25 — A civil action arises out of: 1.
• § 259 — Subject to the supervision of the court, every court commissioner shall have power to do all of the following: (a) Hear and determine ex parte motions for orders and alternative writs and writs of hab
• § 26 — An obligation is a legal duty, by which one person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing, and arises from either of the following: (a) Contract.
• § 262 — The direction or authority of a party or his or her attorney to a sheriff, in respect to the execution of process or return thereof, or to any related act or omission, is not available to discharge or
• § 262.1 — A sheriff or other ministerial officer is justified in the execution of, and shall execute, all process and orders regular on their face and issued by competent authority, whatever may be the defect i
• § 262.10 — Whenever process is executed, or any act performed by a coroner or elisor, he shall receive a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the court, to be paid by the plaintiff in case of the summoning of
• § 262.11 — In all cases where new counties have been or may hereafter be created, and executions, orders of sale upon foreclosures of mortgages, or other process affecting specific real estate have been or may h
• § 262.2 — Except as otherwise provided, the officer executing process shall, so long as he or she retains the original process, show it to any interested person, upon request.
• § 262.3 — When any process remains with the sheriff unexecuted, in whole or in part, at the time of his death, resignation of office, or at the expiration of his term of office, such process shall be executed b
• § 262.4 — If the sheriff sells real estate, under and by virtue of an execution or order of court, the sheriff, or his or her successors in office, shall execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers all d
• § 262.5 — Service of a paper, other than process, upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to him or to one of his deputies, or to a person in charge of the office during office hours, or, if no such perso
• § 262.6 — When the sheriff is a party to an action or proceeding, the process and orders therein, which it would otherwise be the duty of the sheriff to execute, shall be executed by the coroner of the county.
• § 262.7 — If an action is begun against a sheriff, all process and orders may be served by any person in the manner provided in this code.
• § 262.8 — Process or orders in an action or proceeding may be executed by a person residing in the county, designated by the court, or the judge thereof, and denominated an elisor, in the following cases: (a) W
• § 262.9 — When process is delivered to an elisor, he shall execute and return it in the same manner as the sheriff is required to execute similar process.
• § 263 — (a) This chapter may be cited as the Levying Officer Electronic Transactions Act.
• § 263.1 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following definitions: (a) “Electronic mail” or “e-mail” means an electronic message that is sent to an e-mail address and transmitted between two
• § 263.2 — (a) A levying officer may utilize an information processing system to create, generate, send, receive, store, display, retrieve, or process information, electronic records, and documents when based on
• § 263.3 — Whenever the fax transmission of a document or record to a levying officer is authorized pursuant to this chapter, all of the following shall apply: (a) A levying officer may act upon an electronic re
• § 263.4 — (a) A levying officer may create, store, print, or transmit an electronic record in the place of, and in the same manner as, the paper record or document upon which the electronic record is based.
• § 263.6 — (a) In lieu of returning to court the paper version of an original writ of execution, the levying officer may retain the original writ or an electronic copy of the original writ and file only a return
• § 263.7 — (a) A levying officer shall exclude or redact the following identifiers from any record or document made available to the public: (1) Social security number.
• § 269 — (a) An official reporter or official reporter pro tempore of the superior court shall take down in shorthand all testimony, objections made, rulings of the court, exceptions taken, arraignments, pleas
• § 27 — An injury is of two kinds: 1.
• § 271 — (a) An official reporter or official reporter pro tempore shall deliver a transcript in electronic form, in compliance with the California Rules of Court, to any court, party, or person entitled to th
• § 273 — (a) The report of the official reporter, or official reporter pro tempore, of any court, duly appointed and sworn, when transcribed and certified as being a correct transcript of the testimony and pro
• § 274a — Any judge of the superior court may have any opinion given or rendered by the judge in the trial of a felony case or an unlimited civil case, pending in that court, or any necessary order, petition, c
• § 28 — An injury to property consists in depriving its owner of the benefit of it, which is done by taking, withholding, deteriorating, or destroying it.
• § 283 — An attorney and counselor shall have authority: 1.
• § 284 — The attorney in an action or special proceeding may be changed at any time before or after judgment or final determination, as follows: 1.
• § 285 — When an attorney is changed, as provided in the last section, written notice of the change and of the substitution of a new attorney, or of the appearance of the party in person, must be given to the
• § 285.1 — An attorney of record for any party in any civil action or proceeding for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or for a declaration of void or voidable marriage, or for the support, maintenance
• § 285.2 — If a reduction in public funding for legal service materially impairs a legal service agency attorney’s ability to represent an indigent client, the court, on its own motion or on the motion of either
• § 285.3 — The court, upon the granting of a motion for withdrawal pursuant to Section 285.
• § 285.4 — The court, upon the granting of a motion for withdrawal pursuant to Section 285.
• § 286 — When an attorney dies, or is removed or suspended, or ceases to act as such, a party to an action, for whom he was acting as attorney, must, before any further proceedings are had against him, be requ
• § 29 — Every other injury is an injury to the person.
• § 3 — No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so declared.
• § 30 — A civil action is prosecuted by one party against another for the declaration, enforcement or protection of a right, or the redress or prevention of a wrong.
• § 307 — There is in this State but one form of civil actions for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress or prevention of private wrongs.
• § 308 — In such action the party complaining is known as the plaintiff, and the adverse party as the defendant.
• § 309 — A question of fact not put in issue by the pleadings may be tried by a jury, upon an order for the trial, stating distinctly and plainly the question of fact to be tried; and such order is the only au
• § 31 — T he P enal C ode defines and provides for the prosecution of a criminal action.
• § 312 — Civil actions, without exception, can only be commenced within the periods prescribed in this title, after the cause of action shall have accrued, unless where, in special cases, a different limitatio
• § 313 — The general procedure for the presentation of claims as a prerequisite to commencement of actions for money or damages against the State of California, counties, cities, cities and counties, districts
• § 315 — The people of this State will not sue any person for or in respect to any real property, or the issues or profits thereof, by reason of the right or title of the people to the same, unless: 1.
• § 316 — No action can be brought for or in respect to real property by any person claiming under letters patent or grants from this State, unless the same might have been commenced by the people as herein spe
• § 318 — No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, can be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized or
• § 319 — No cause of action, or defense to an action, arising out of the title to real property, or to rents or profits out of the same, can be effectual, unless it appear that the person prosecuting the actio
• § 32 — When the violation of a right admits of both a civil and criminal remedy, the right to prosecute the one is not merged in the other.
• § 32.5 — The “jurisdictional classification” of a case means its classification as a limited civil case or an unlimited civil case.
• § 320 — No entry upon real estate is deemed sufficient or valid as a claim, unless an action be commenced thereupon within one year after making such entry, and within five years from the time when the right
• § 321 — In every action for the recovery of real property, or the possession thereof, the person establishing a legal title to the property is presumed to have been possessed thereof within the time required
• § 322 — When it appears that the occupant, or those under whom he claims, entered into the possession of the property under claim of title, exclusive of other right, founding such claim upon a written instrum
• § 323 — For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession by any person claiming a title founded upon a written instrument, or a judgment or decree, land is deemed to have been possessed and occupied in t
• § 324 — Where it appears that there has been an actual continued occupation of land, under a claim of title, exclusive of any other right, but not founded upon a written instrument, judgment, or decree, the l
• § 325 — (a) For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession by a person claiming title, not founded upon a written instrument, judgment, or decree, land is deemed to have been possessed and occupied in
• § 326 — When the relation of landlord and tenant has existed between any persons, the possession of the tenant is deemed the possession of the landlord until the expiration of five years from the termination
• § 327 — The right of a person to the possession of real property is not impaired or affected by a descent cast in consequence of the death of a person in possession of such property.
• § 328 — If a person entitled to commence an action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, or to make an entry or defense founded on the title to real property, or to
• § 328.5 — If a person entitled to commence an action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, or to make any entry or defense founded on the title to real property, or t
• § 329 — The time within which an action for the foreclosure of a lien securing an assessment against real property for street improvements, the proceedings for which are prescribed by legislation of any polit
• § 329.5 — The validity of an assessment or supplemental assessment against real property for public improvements, the proceedings for which are prescribed by the legislative body of any chartered city, shall no
• § 33 — A prosecuting attorney, in his or her discretion, may assist in the civil resolution of a violation of an offense described in Title 13 (commencing with Section 450) of Part 1 of the Penal Code in lie
• § 330 — In all cases in which there is now vested or there shall hereafter be vested in a treasurer, street superintendent, or other public official the power to sell at public auction, after demand upon him
• § 335 — The periods prescribed for the commencement of actions other than for the recovery of real property, are as follows:
• § 335.1 — Within two years: An action for assault, battery, or injury to, or for the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another.
• § 336 — Within five years: (a) An action for mesne profits of real property.
• § 336a — Within six years: (a) An action upon any bonds, notes, or debentures issued by any corporation or pursuant to permit of the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation, or upon any coupons iss
• § 337 — Within four years: (a) An action upon any contract, obligation or liability founded upon an instrument in writing, except as provided in Section 336a; provided, that the time within which any action f
• § 337.1 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no action shall be brought to recover damages from any person performing or furnishing the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision or
• § 337.15 — (a) No action may be brought to recover damages from any person, or the surety of a person, who develops real property or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervi
• § 337.2 — Where a lease of real property is in writing, no action shall be brought under Section 1951.
• § 337.5 — Within 10 years: (a) An action upon any general obligation bonds or coupons, not secured in whole or in part by a lien on real property, issued by any county, city and county, municipal corporation, d
• § 337.6 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 337.
• § 337a — (a) The term “book account” means a detailed statement which constitutes the principal record of one or more transactions between a debtor and a creditor arising out of a contract or some fiduciary re
• § 338 — Within three years: (a) An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture.
• § 338.1 — An action for civil penalties or punitive damages authorized under Chapter 6.
• § 338.2 — (a) A California resident, or an heir, trustee, assignee, or representative of the estate of a California resident, may bring an action for damages, other financial recovery, title, recovery, or owner
• § 339 — Within two years: 1.
• § 339.5 — Where a lease of real property is not in writing, no action shall be brought under Section 1951.
• § 34 — An electronic signature, as defined in Section 17, by a court or judicial officer shall be as effective as an original signature.
• § 340 — Within one year: (a) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, if the action is given to an individual, or to an individual and the state, except if the statute imposing it prescribes a di
• § 340.1 — (a) There is no time limit for the commencement of any of the following actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault: (1) An action against any person for committin
• § 340.10 — (a) For purposes of this section, “terrorist victim” means any individual who died or was injured as a consequence of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001, including persons wh
• § 340.11 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 340.
• § 340.15 — (a) In any civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of domestic violence, the time for commencement of the action shall be the later of the following: (1) Within three years from the
• § 340.16 — (a) In any civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of sexual assault, where the assault occurred on or after the plaintiff’s 18th birthday, the time for commencement of the action sh
• § 340.2 — (a) In any civil action for injury or illness based upon exposure to asbestos, the time for the commencement of the action shall be the later of the following: (1) Within one year after the date the p
• § 340.3 — (a) Unless a longer period is prescribed for a specific action, in any action for damages against a defendant based upon the defendant’s commission of a felony offense for which the defendant has been
• § 340.35 — (a) This section shall apply if both of the following conditions are met: (1) A complaint, information, or indictment was filed in a criminal case initiated pursuant to subdivision (f), (g), or (h) of
• § 340.4 — An action by or on behalf of a minor for personal injuries sustained before or in the course of his or her birth must be commenced within six years after the date of birth, and the time the minor is u
• § 340.5 — In an action for injury or death against a health care provider based upon such person’s alleged professional negligence, the time for the commencement of action shall be three years after the date of
• § 340.6 — (a) An action against an attorney for a wrongful act or omission, other than for actual fraud, arising in the performance of professional services shall be commenced within one year after the plaintif
• § 340.7 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 335.
• § 340.8 — (a) In any civil action for injury or illness based upon exposure to a hazardous material or toxic substance, the time for commencement of the action shall be no later than either two years from the d
• § 340.9 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or contract, any insurance claim for damages arising out of the Northridge earthquake of 1994 which is barred as of the effective date of this section so
• § 341 — Within six months: An action against an officer, or officer de facto: 1.
• § 341.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any action or proceeding in which a county, city, city and county, school district, special district, or any other local agency is a plaintiff or petitioner
• § 341a — All civil actions for the recovery or conversion of personal property, wearing apparel, trunks, valises or baggage alleged to have been left at a hotel, hospital, rest home, sanitarium, boarding house
• § 342 — An action against a public entity upon a cause of action for which a claim is required to be presented in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
• § 343 — An action for relief not hereinbefore provided for must be commenced within four years after the cause of action shall have accrued.