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2013 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 2. OF CIVIL ACTIONS
TITLE 6. OF THE PLEADINGS IN CIVIL ACTIONS
CHAPTER 3. Objections to Pleadings; Denials and Defenses
ARTICLE 2. Denials and Defenses
431.20

CA Civ Pro Code § 431.20 (2013) What's This?

(a) Every material allegation of the complaint or cross-complaint, not controverted by the answer, shall, for the purposes of the action, be taken as true.

(b) The statement of any new matter in the answer, in avoidance or constituting a defense, shall, on the trial, be deemed controverted by the opposite party.

(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 244.)

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