Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.40 · Chapter 4. Judicial Council Forms
Statutory references on forms
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The references to statutes and rules at the bottom of Judicial Council forms are advisory only. The presence or absence of a particular reference is not a ground for rejecting a form otherwise applicable in the action or proceeding for the purpose presented.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 1.40 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_40
- Text hash
- sha256 e40e056d31edc62e0844887f8c771d694582ad1bcc091d73e7b4e1ce25554ba2
- 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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