California Code of Civil Procedure TITLE 1 - OF THE FORM OF CIVIL ACTIONS

• Section 307.
  There is in this State but one form of civil actions for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress or prevention of...
• Section 308.
  In such action the party complaining is known as the plaintiff, and the adverse party as the defendant.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 309.
  A question of fact not put in issue by the pleadings may be tried by a jury, upon an order for the trial, stating distinctly...

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