Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.3 · Chapter 2. Definitions and Scope of Rules
Definitions
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
As used in the Trial Court Rules, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
(1) "Court" means the superior court.
(2) "Papers" includes all documents, except exhibits and copies of exhibits, that are offered for filing in any case, but does not include Judicial Council and local court forms, records on appeal in limited civil cases, or briefs filed in appellate divisions. Unless the context clearly provides otherwise, "papers" need not be in a tangible or physical form but may be in an electronic form.
(3) "Written," "writing," "typewritten," and "typewriting" include other methods of printing letters and words equivalent in legibility to typewriting or printing from a word processor.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.3 amended effective January 1, 2016; 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/two/rule2_3
- Text hash
- sha256 244f364d2fe0ba6a4323ec729c975f5926a0c6bdaca53f087f368cc78c27a072
- 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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