§ 2016.010.Short title

Every substantial body of statutes needs a name that lawyers, judges, and litigants can use as shorthand, and this section supplies it for California's discovery law: the Civil Discovery Act. Rather than citing a long list of individual sections every time discovery comes up, practitioners can refer to the Act as a whole.

The naming section itself carries no substantive rule about how discovery works. Its job is purely organizational, letting the title that follows in this chunk, and the chapters that come after it covering interrogatories, depositions, document production, and the rest, all be understood as pieces of one coordinated scheme rather than a scattered collection of unrelated statutes.