California Codes, Code of Civil Procedure - CCP, Part 2 — Of Civil Actions, Title 10.5 — Partition of Real and Personal Property, Chapter 3 — Trial, Article 1 — Determination of Interests of Parties, Section 872.640

Where two or more parties are unknown, the court may consider their interests together in the action and not as between each other.

Notes

Allows the court, when two or more parties are unknown, to consider those unknown parties' interests together in the action rather than determining their interests as between one another. The provision permits collective treatment of multiple unknown interests and states no numerical limit beyond requiring at least two unknown parties.

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