Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.7 · Article 1. In General
Construction
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Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
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History
Rule 8.7 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/eight/rule8_7
- Text hash
- sha256 b2598d6346dded4a33b3968acc33a2304d817a92e3a49e759acf59a8f28389fd
- 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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