California Codes, Code of Civil Procedure - CCP, Part 2 — Of Civil Actions, Title 10.5 — Partition of Real and Personal Property, Chapter 2 — Commencement of Action, Article 2 — Summons, Section 872.330
(a) Where the court orders service by publication, the publication may:
(1) Name only the defendants to be served thereby.
(2) Describe only the property in which the defendants to be served thereby have or claim interests.
(b) Judgment based on failure to appear and answer following service under this section shall be conclusive against the defendants named in respect only to property described in the publication.
Notes
Allows a publication serving defendants to name only those defendants and describe only property in which they have or claim interests. A judgment based on their failure to appear and answer after that publication is conclusive against the named defendants only with respect to the property described in the publication.
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