Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.163 · Article 2. Record on Appeal
Presumption from the record
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The reviewing court will presume that the record in an appeal includes all matters material to deciding the issues raised. If the appeal proceeds without a reporter's transcript, this presumption applies only if the claimed error appears on the face of the record.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.163 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; repealed and adopted as rule 52 effective January 1, 2005.
Advisory Committee Comment
The intent of rule 8.163 is explained in the case law. (See, e.g., Dumas v. Stark (1961) 56 Cal.2d 673, 674.)
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/eight/rule8_163
- Text hash
- sha256 1579cd9ce51db471b4885ade9407c2d72e0dfc8fcb3c731744fdf3634ef854d3
- 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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