Can an appellant waive his right to attack error by expressly or impliedly agreeing to the ruling or procedure objected to on appeal?

" '[A]n appellant may waive his right to attack error by expressly or impliedly agreeing at trial to the ruling or procedure objected to on appeal.' [Citations.] There is nothing shocking about [this] rule[]. [It is] consistent with the adversary system's appreciation that lawyers in civil litigation must be given adequate breathing room to select whatever trial strategies they deem appropriate. Absent the need for the same constitutional protections afforded to defendants in criminal cases, there is considerable judicial deference to attorney creativity in civil cases. Admittedly the results of such creativity can be mixed with the lawyer and his or her client being rewarded in some cases and not in others. Nonetheless our adversary system requires that we allow counsel the right to maximize the use of his or her trial skills so that the fairness of the result will not be questioned because the court curtailed the lawyer's role." (Mesecher v. County of San Diego (1992) 9 Cal.App.4th 1677,

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