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Title 4: MINISTERIAL OFFICERS OF COURTS OF JUSTICE [262 - 274a] | Chapter 1: Of Ministerial Officers Generally

California Code of Civil Procedure – 2026

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§ 262 The direction or authority of a party or his or her attorney to a sheriff, in respect to the execution of process or return thereof, or to any related… § 262.1 A sheriff or other ministerial officer is justified in the execution of, and shall execute, all process and orders regular on their face and issued by… § 262.2 Except as otherwise provided, the officer executing process shall, so long as he or she retains the original process, show it to any interested person… § 262.3 When any process remains with the sheriff unexecuted, in whole or in part, at the time of his death, resignation of office, or at the expiration of hi… § 262.4 If the sheriff sells real estate, under and by virtue of an execution or order of court, the sheriff, or his or her successors in office, shall execut… § 262.5 Service of a paper, other than process, upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to him or to one of his deputies, or to a person in charge of th… § 262.6 When the sheriff is a party to an action or proceeding, the process and orders therein, which it would otherwise be the duty of the sheriff to execute… § 262.7 If an action is begun against a sheriff, all process and orders may be served by any person in the manner provided in this code. § 262.8 Process or orders in an action or proceeding may be executed by a person residing in the county, designated by the court, or the judge thereof, and de… § 262.9 When process is delivered to an elisor, he shall execute and return it in the same manner as the sheriff is required to execute similar process. § 262.10 Whenever process is executed, or any act performed by a coroner or elisor, he shall receive a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the court, to be… § 262.11 In all cases where new counties have been or may hereafter be created, and executions, orders of sale upon foreclosures of mortgages, or other process…