CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 4300
Introductory Instruction
This is an action for what is called unlawful detainer. [Name of plaintiff],
the [landlord/tenant], claims that [name of defendant] is [his/her/ nonbinary
pronoun/its] [tenant/subtenant] under a [lease/rental agreement/sublease]
and that [name of defendant] no longer has the right to occupy the
property [by subleasing to [name of subtenant]]. [Name of plaintiff] seeks
to recover possession of the property from [name of defendant]. [Name of
defendant] claims that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/it] still has the right to
occupy the property because [insert defenses at issue].
The property involved in this case is [describe property: e.g., “an
apartment,” “a house,” “space in a commercial building”] located in [city
or area] at [address].
New August 2007
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
d81fc5eb3654a4d429056380d8eaba19c648967da86377879f496fa6419dde98
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