California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
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 |
Section 431.20.
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(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.)