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Code of Civil Procedure § 396

CHAPTER 1. Place of Trial

Current as of September 28, 2026Code Civ. Proc., § 396Official source ↗

Repealed and added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 56, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009.

(a) No appeal or petition filed in the superior court shall be dismissed solely because the appeal or petition was not filed in the proper state court.

(b) If the superior court lacks jurisdiction of an appeal or petition, and a court of appeal or the Supreme Court would have jurisdiction, the appeal or petition shall be transferred to the court having jurisdiction upon terms as to costs or otherwise as may be just, and proceeded with as if regularly filed in the court having jurisdiction.