California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Credit Managers Assn. v. National Independent Business Alliance, 162 Cal.App.3d 1166, 209 Cal.Rptr. 119 (Cal. App. 1984):
In the case of Plummer v. Brown (1884) 64 Cal. 429, 1 P. 703, the court construed the meaning of "legal representatives" as used in section 473 and of the right to be substituted in place of a party as used in section 385, both of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Section 473 of that code provides in pertinent parts:
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