§ 1235.165.Proceeding

This is a short, anchoring definition. Wherever "proceeding" appears in this title, it means an eminent domain proceeding under this title -- not litigation in general, and not some other kind of special proceeding covered elsewhere in Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

That anchor matters because so many other definitions and rules in this title -- litigation expenses under § 1235.140, judgment under § 1235.130, the various filing and hearing deadlines throughout the chapters that follow -- describe things happening "in the proceeding." Fixing what "proceeding" means keeps all of those cross-references pointed at the same kind of action.