Section 431.20.

  1. Law
  2. California Code
  3. of Civil Procedure - CCP
  4. 2 - OF CIVIL ACTIONS
  5. OF THE PLEADINGS IN CIVIL ACTIONS
  6. 3 - Objections to Pleadings; Denials and Defenses
  7. 2 - Denials and Defenses
  8. Section 431.20.

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(a) Every material allegation of the complaint or cross-complaint, not controverted by the answer, shall, for the purposes of the action, be taken as true.

(b) The statement of any new matter in the answer, in avoidance or constituting a defense, shall, on the trial, be deemed controverted by the opposite party.

(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 244.)


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