What is the law on the duty of looking after your legal rights and of calling the judge's attention to any infringement of their rights?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Christina L., In re, 3 Cal.App.4th 404, 4 Cal.Rptr.2d 680 (Cal. App. 1992):
" 'The law casts upon the party the duty of looking after his legal rights and of calling the judge's attention to any infringement of them. If any other rule were to obtain, the party would in most cases be careful to be silent as to his objections until it would be too late to obviate them, and the result would be that few judgments would stand the test of an appeal.' [Citation.]" (Sommer v. Martin (1921) 55 Cal.App. 603, 610, 204 P. 33.)
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