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Cal. Civ. Code § 3420

Preventive Relief

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 219 Cal. App. 3d 1186 - 366-388 Geary Street, L.P. v. Superior Court (1990)

Most recently applied in Russell v. Douvan (September 2003)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

Preventive relief is granted by injunction, provisional or final.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.