California Code of Civil Procedure CHAPTER 1 - Place of Trial

• Section 392.
  (a) Subject to the power of the court to transfer actions and proceedings as provided in this title, the superior court in the county where the...
• Section 393.
  Subject to the power of the court to transfer actions and proceedings as provided in this title, the county in which the cause, or some...
• Section 394.
  (a) An action or proceeding against a county, or city and county, a city, or local agency, may be tried in the county, or city and...
• Section 395.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the power of the court to transfer actions or proceedings as provided in this title, the...
• Section 395.1.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 17005 of the Probate Code pertaining to trustees, when a defendant is sued in an official or representative capacity...
• Section 395.2.
  If an unincorporated association has filed a statement with the Secretary of State pursuant to statute, designating its principal office in this state, the proper...
• Section 395.5.
  A corporation or association may be sued in the county where the contract is made or is to be performed, or where the obligation or...
• Section 396.
  (a) No appeal or petition filed in the superior court shall be dismissed solely because the appeal or petition was not filed in the proper state...
• Section 396a.
  In a case that is subject to Sections 1812.10 and 2984.4 of the Civil Code, or subdivision (b) of Section 395 of the Code of...
• Section 396b.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 396a, if an action or proceeding is commenced in a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof, other...
• Section 397.
  The court may, on motion, change the place of trial in the following cases:(a) When the court designated in the complaint is not the proper court.(b) When...
• Section 397.5.
  In any proceeding for dissolution or nullity of marriage or legal separation of the parties under the Family Code, where it appears that both petitioner...
• Section 398.
  (a) If a court orders the transfer of an action or proceeding for a cause specified in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of Section 397, the...
• Section 399.
  (a) If an order is made transferring an action or proceeding under any provision of this title, the clerk shall, after expiration of the time within...
• Section 400.
  When an order is made by the superior court granting or denying a motion to change the place of trial, the party aggrieved by the...
• Section 401.
  (1) Whenever it is provided by any law of this State that an action or proceeding against the State or a department, institution, board, commission, bureau,...
• Section 402.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law:(1) A superior court may specify by local rule the locations where certain types of actions or proceedings are to be...
• Section 403.
  A judge may, on motion, transfer an action or actions from another court to that judge’s court for coordination with an action involving a common...

Last modified: October 22, 2018