California Codes, Code of Civil Procedure - CCP, Part 2 — Of Civil Actions, Title 14 — Of Miscellaneous Provisions, Chapter 4 — Motions and Orders, Section 1003
Every direction of a court or judge, made or entered in writing, and not included in a judgment, is denominated an order. An application for an order is a motion.
Notes
Defines every written direction of a court or judge that is not included in a judgment as an “order,” and defines an application for an order as a “motion.” The provision supplies those procedural meanings and imposes no separate filing requirement, hearing deadline, exception, or substantive entitlement in the supplied text.
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