Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1580 · Chapter 8. Special Verdicts
Request for special findings by jury
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Whenever a party desires special findings by a jury, the party must, before argument, unless otherwise ordered, present to the judge in writing the issues or questions of fact on which the findings are requested, in proper form for submission to the jury, and serve copies on all other parties.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.1580 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 230 effective January 1, 1949.
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_1580
- Text hash
- sha256 6727f20be296f0db4906eac07da3ea840fdbe729fea1a7ecdd9888a87d107d59
- 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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