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2023 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 2 - OF CIVIL ACTIONS
TITLE 6.5 - ATTACHMENT
CHAPTER 10 - Liability for Wrongful Attachment
Section 490.020.
Universal Citation: CA Civ Pro Code § 490.020 (2023)
490.020. (a) The liability of a plaintiff for causing a wrongful attachment under Section 490.010 includes both of the following:
(1) All damages proximately caused to the defendant by the wrongful attachment.
(2) All costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees, reasonably expended in defeating the attachment.
(b) The liability of a plaintiff for wrongful attachment pursuant to Section 490.010 is limited by the amount of the undertaking.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1198, Sec. 54. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 70 of Ch. 1198.)
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