CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 419
Presumption of Negligence per se (Causation Only at Issue)
[Insert citation to statute, regulation, or ordinance] states:
.
A violation of this law has been established and is not an issue for you to
decide.
[However, you must decide whether the violation was excused. If it was
not excused, then you] [Y ou] must decide whether the violation was a
substantial factor in harming [name of plaintiff].
If you decide that the violation was a substantial factor, then you must
find that [name of plaintiff/defendant] was negligent.
New September 2003; Revised December 2011
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
8d611cab2aee011efdb6241a896d29f7655d983f8105f66b7bc014861a7d3316
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.