Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1 · Chapter 1. Preliminary Rules
Title
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The rules in this title may be referred to as the Civil Rules.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.1 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/three/rule3_1
- Text hash
- sha256 8a182fa11fa48a36567d6ce3ebcb1340cec553b9c9ee3ddf16f75e8d08245c0d
- 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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