A summons may be served on a person outside this state in any manner provided by this article or by sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the person to be served by first-class mail, postage prepaid, requiring a return receipt. Service of a summons by this form of mail is deemed complete on the 10th day after such mailing.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 415.40
Manner of Service of Summons
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Rogers v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company (1999)
Most recently applied in Carl Jimena v. Clive Standish (January 2013)
Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 249, Sec. 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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