Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.3 · Chapter 1. Preliminary Rules
Authority
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The rules in the California Rules of Court are adopted by the Judicial Council of California under the authority of article VI, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of California, unless otherwise indicated. The rules in division 5 of title 8 and in title 9 were adopted by the Supreme Court.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 1.3 amended effective January 1, 2008; adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/one/rule1_3
- Text hash
- sha256 1b1bb8c1410f0699f6c2138e439c517895097e9ac2ab771d2a98fcd67b6bdff6
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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