California Codes, Code of Civil Procedure - CCP, Part 2 — Of Civil Actions, Title 8 — Of the Trial and Judgment in Civil Actions, Chapter 1 — Judgment in General, Section 582
In all other cases judgment shall be rendered on the merits.
Notes
Requires judgment to be rendered on the merits in all cases falling within the provision’s residual category of all other cases. The text supplies no additional condition, procedure, deadline, exception, or separate standard for rendering that judgment on the merits.
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