Residence of Sovereignty
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 53 Cal. 3d 442 - Dix v. Superior Court (1991)
Most recently applied in Abbott Labs. v. Superior Court of Orange Cnty. (May 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex
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.
(a) The sovereignty of the state resides in the people thereof, and all writs and processes shall issue in their name.
(b) The style of all process shall be “The People of the State of California,” and all prosecutions shall be conducted in their name and by their authority.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.