The omission to specify or affirm in this Code any liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy imposed by law and allowed to be recovered or enforced in any civil action or proceeding, for any act or omission declared punishable herein, does not affect any right to recover or enforce the same.
Cal. Penal Code § 9
THE ACT
Known as the The Penal Code
The act spans §§ 1–24 (34 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Stop Youth Addiction, Inc. v. Lucky Stores, Inc. (1998)
Most recently applied in 92 Cal. App. 4th 780 - People v. Harrison (October 2001)
Enacted 1872.
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.