Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 1. OF COURTS OF JUSTICE [35 - 286]
( Part 1 repealed and added by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 35. ) TITLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND JURISDICTION [35 - 155]
( Title 1 repealed and added by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 35. ) CHAPTER 5.5. Small Claims Court [116.110 - 116.950]
( Chapter 5.5 repealed (as Chapter 5A) and added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1305, Sec. 3. ) ARTICLE 8. Satisfaction and Enforcement of Judgment [116.810 - 116.880]
( Article 8 added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1305, Sec. 3. ) 116.810.
(a) Enforcement of the judgment of a small claims court, including the issuance or recording of any abstract of the judgment, is automatically suspended, without the filing of a bond by the defendant, until the expiration of the time for appeal.
(b) If an appeal is filed as provided in Article 7 (commencing with Section 116.710), enforcement of the judgment of the small claims court is suspended unless (1) the appeal is dismissed by the superior court pursuant to Section 116.795, or (2) the superior court determines that the small claims court properly denied
the defendant’s motion to vacate filed under Section 116.730 or 116.740. In either of those events, the judgment of the small claims court may be enforced.
(c) The scope of the suspension of enforcement under this section and, unless otherwise ordered, of any suspension of enforcement ordered by the court, shall include any enforcement procedure described in Title 9 (commencing with Section 680.010) of Part 2 and in Sections 674 and 1174.
(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 915, Sec. 28.)