California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Leider v. Lewis, 2 Cal.5th 1121, 218 Cal.Rptr.3d 127, 394 P.3d 1055 (Cal. 2017):
As enacted in 1872, section 3369 stated: "Neither specific nor preventive relief can be granted to enforce a penalty or forfeiture in any case, nor to enforce a penal law, except in a case of nuisance, nor to enforce a penalty or forfeiture in any case."8 In Perrin v. Mountain View Mausoleum Assn . (1929) 206 Cal. 669, 275 P. 787, this court characterized the statute as "but the expression of the
[394 P.3d 1061]
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