California Code of Civil Procedure Section 994

CA Civ Pro Code § 994 (2017)  

The issues formed may be tried as in other cases; but when the defendant denies, in his answer, any liability on the obligation upon which the judgment was rendered, if a verdict be found against him, it must be for not exceeding the amount remaining unsatisfied on such original judgment, with interest thereon.

(Enacted 1872.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018