California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from County of Orange v. Classified Ins. Corp., 218 Cal.App.3d 553, 267 Cal.Rptr. 73 (Cal. App. 1990):
A bail forfeiture proceeding is a special proceeding, civil in nature, and governed by the rules which govern all civil appeals. (Moore v. Ohio Casualty Ins. Co. (1983) 140 Cal.App.3d 988, 992, fn. 2, 189 Cal.Rptr. 829.) Such a judgment is like any other civil judgment. We note, for example,
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