Sections
14 entriesSection 656Defines a new trial as a re-examination of an issue of fact in the same court after that issue has already been…Section 657Allows an aggrieved party a new or further trial for specified causes affecting substantial rights, including irregularity, misconduct, surprise, newly discovered evidence,…Section 657.1Allows a new trial to be granted under the separate authority referenced in Section 914 in addition to the grounds and procedures…Section 658Requires a new-trial application based on any cause listed in the first four subdivisions of the referenced new-trial statute to be made…Section 659Requires a party seeking a new trial to file and serve notice stating the grounds and whether affidavits or minutes will be…Section 659aSets new-trial briefing deadlines at 10 days after filing notice for the moving party’s brief and supporting documents, 10 days after that…Section 660Sets a 75-day period for ruling on a new-trial motion, subject to the referenced time-computation exception, measured from the earlier clerk mailing…Section 661Requires the trial judge to decide a new-trial motion unless unable or absent from the county, when another judge of the court…Section 662Allows a court deciding a new-trial motion after a nonjury trial to change or add to the statement of decision, modify or…Section 662.5Allows a trial court, when a damages-only new trial after a jury trial would be proper, to condition retrial on rejection of…Section 663Allows an aggrieved party to move the same court to vacate a judgment or decree and enter a different judgment when substantial…Section 663aRequires a party seeking to vacate a judgment on specified grounds to file and serve notice of intent before judgment or within…Section 663.1Allows a court to grant a new trial when a trial record is lost or destroyed by public calamity, no other record…Section 663.2Extends the time to prepare, serve, or present a bill of exceptions while a motion for a new trial based on lost…