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This is the html version of the file http://students.law.ucdavis.edu/LSA/files/outlines/Civ%20Pro%20-%20Unknown%20-%200203.doc. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. CIV PRO OUTLINE As of 5/1 1. WHAT'S CIVIL PROCEDURE? 1. Prescribes and administers process for enforcing rights and duties specified in substantive law 2. EVOLUTION OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (pgs. 18-32) 1. Significant Anglo-Saxon institutions at time of conquest: 1. Crown 2. Local tribunals 1. Slow and uncertain in operation 2. Earliest forms of royal intervention 1. Executive 2. Administrative 3. Writ 1. Written directive from king to royal official/to individual/group of individuals ordering addressees to do/refrain from doing designated act 2. Procedural steps by which prosecuted not uniform 3. Praecipe 1. Executive command made without inquiry 4. Novel disseisin/querela 1. Derived from procedure in which judicial inquest of complaints heard first and then executive action followed 4. king's direct entertainment of complaints of subjects 3. Early evolution of royal courts 1. Medieval central government 1. King's court/curia regis 2. Why separate branches? 1. Administrative necessity for orderly record keeping 2. Historical fact that early Plantagenet kings had domains in France that were more important to them than England and which required their presence on continent for long periods of time (king absent a lot) 4. Common law procedure 1. Background of all medieval litigation was hope of bringing parties to some sort of voluntary accord

le 12. Defenses and Objections - When and How Presented - by Pleading or Motion - Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings 1. Defendant shall answer within 20 days of service or, if service was waived, within 60 days after request for waiver was sent 2. Every defense shall be asserted in the responsive pleading except that the following defenses may be made by motion: 1. Lack of jurisdiction over subject matter 2. Lack of jurisdiction over person 3. Improper venue 4. Insufficiency of process 5. Insufficiency of service of process 6. Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted 7. Failure to join a party under Rule 19 Ü If (6) is asserted and matters outside the pleading are consider, goes to Rule 56, summary judgment. 3. Judgment on the Pleadings - mainly used by Π when Δ's responsive pleading doesn't dispute Π's claim 7. Consolidation of Defenses in Motion - If a Rule 12 motion is made, any defense or objection is waived unless exception in (h)(2) 8. Waiver or Preservation of Certain Defenses

The Applicant, Appellant or Party Intervenor may request that all or a part of the transcript of a hearing be transcribed into verbatim, written form. In such case, the Applicant, Appellant or Party Intervenor requesting the transcript shall be responsible for the cost of production of the transcription and the transcription shall become the official transcript

Character" for purposes of evidence means a person's propensity to engage or not to engage in certain types of behavior. A person may have a character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, peaceableness or violence, recklessness or care, lawfulness or unlawfulness. The purpose for which character evidence is being offered must be identified to determine it's admissibility. Possible uses:

Character" for purposes of evidence means a person's propensity to engage or not to engage in certain types of behavior. A person may have a character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, peaceableness or violence, recklessness or care, lawfulness or unlawfulness. The purpose for which character evidence is being offered must be identified to determine it's admissibility. Possible uses: