Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2104 · Chapter 1. Trial Rules
Defendant's claim
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A defendant may file a claim against the plaintiff even if the claim does not relate to the same subject or event as the plaintiff's claim, so long as the claim is within the jurisdictional limit of the small claims court.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.2104 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1703 effective July 1, 1991.
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_2104
- Text hash
- sha256 9306928c1649bfec828f8da5f378def97bc3ebcc63fad5a20475f4b898c04f12
- 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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