Connecticut General Statutes
Title 52 - Civil Actions

Chapter 895 - Civil Jurisdiction

Section 52-1. - Administration of legal and equitable rights. - The Superior Court may administer legal and equitable rights and...

Section 52-2 to 52-6a. - Jurisdiction of justice of the peace and circuit, municipal and common pleas courts and divisions, generally. Appeals to appellate session of Superior Court; to Supreme Court. - Sections 52-2 to 52-6a, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-8 and 52-9. - Jurisdiction of the court of common pleas for the judicial district of Waterbury. Civil actions in the Court of Common Pleas; where they may be brought or taken; exceptions. - Sections 52-8 and 52-9 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7743;...

Section 52-9b. - Civil jury sessions for the court of common pleas for New Haven County. Where held. - Section 52-9b is repealed. (P.A. 75-578, S. 8; P.A. 76-436,...

Section 52-10. - Jurisdiction of the Superior Court. Actions against judgments of. - Section 52-10 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7745; June, 1955,...

Section 52-11. - Complaints for change of name. Exceptions re offenders required to register with Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Commissioner's standing to challenge change of name. - (a) The superior court in each judicial district shall have...

Section 52-12. - Jurisdiction over the sale of certain real property. Protection of unrepresented interests. Orders and decrees to be recorded. - (a) The Superior Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all...

Section 52-12a. - Jurisdiction over foreign defamation judgment. - (a) As used in this section, (1) “foreign defamation judgment”...

Section 52-13. - Protection of unrepresented interests. - Section 52-13 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7758; P.A. 78-280,...

Section 52-14. - Jurisdiction of cases brought prior to October 1, 1955. - Special. (1949 Rev., S. 7744; June, 1955, S. 3144d.)

Section 52-15 and 52-16. - Naturalization of aliens. Disposal of fees. - Sections 52-15 and 52-16 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7629,...

Section 52-18 to 52-21. - Actions for partition or sale of property. Jurisdiction of foreclosure or redemption suits. Return of action brought by foreign corporation. Action by nonresident executor, trustee or administrator. - Sections 52-18 to 52-21, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-22. - Courts may pass title to real property by decree. - The Superior Court in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction...

Section 52-23. - Order to guardian to convey ward's realty. - The Superior Court in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction...

Section 52-25 to 52-28. - Venue matters. Concurrent jurisdiction of Common Pleas and Superior Courts. - Sections 52-25 to 52-28, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-29. - Superior Court may declare rights and legal relations. - (a) The Superior Court in any action or proceeding may...

Section 52-32. - Transfer of causes brought to the wrong court. - Section 52-32 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7792; February, 1965,...

Section 52-33 to 52-36. - Transfer of causes between Superior and Common Pleas Court. Transfers after pretrial sessions and conferences. Fees in transferred actions. Consolidation of actions. Jury in consolidated cases. - Sections 52-33 to 52-36, inclusive, are repealed. (1949, S. 3186d;...

Section 52-36a. - Claiming of cases to jury on consolidation of actions where not previously claimed. - When actions pending in the Superior Court have been ordered...

Section 52-37 and 52-37a. - Transmission of files and papers; procedure. Consolidation of actions in Circuit Court and Common Pleas or Superior Court. - Sections 52-37 and 52-37a are repealed. (1955, S. 3188d; 1959,...

Section 52-39 to 52-41. - Distinct claims; separate counts; jurisdiction. Several claims; jurisdiction of Common Pleas Court. Limited jurisdiction; judgment above limit. - Sections 52-39 to 52-41, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-42a and 52-43 to 52-45. - Venue in actions involving security deposits. Venue where all parties nonresident. When justice action may be brought in adjoining town. Appeals from justice. - Sections 52-42a and 52-43 to 52-45, inclusive, are repealed. (1949...

Chapter 896 - Civil Process, Service and Time for Return

Section 52-45a. (Formerly Sec. 52-89). - Commencement of civil actions. Contents and signature of process. - Civil actions shall be commenced by legal process consisting of...

Section 52-45b. (Formerly Sec. 52-90). - Forms for commencement of civil action. - Unless otherwise provided by rule, the forms of legal process...

Section 52-46. - Time for service. - Civil process, if returnable to the Supreme Court, shall be...

Section 52-46a. - Return of process. - Process in civil actions returnable to the Supreme Court shall...

Section 52-48. - Return day of process. - (a) Process in civil actions, including transfers and applications for...

Section 52-48a and 52-49. - Service and return day of process in Circuit Court. Appeals from administrative officers, when returnable. - Sections 52-48a and 52-49 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7770;...

Section 52-50. - Persons to whom process shall be directed. - (a) All process shall be directed to a state marshal,...

Section 52-51. - Service by officer before giving bond. - Any process in any civil action which is served by...

Section 52-52. - Orders of notice of legal or judicial proceedings. - (a) Orders of notice of legal or judicial proceedings need...

Section 52-53. - State marshal may make special deputation. - A state marshal may, on any special occasion, depute, in...

Section 52-54. - Service of summons. - The service of a writ of summons shall be made...

Section 52-55. - When completion of service by another officer allowable. - (a) If an officer to whom any process is directed...

Section 52-56. - Service of process outside of officer's precinct. - (a) If any officer has commenced the service of any...

Section 52-57. - Manner of service upon individuals, municipalities, corporations, partnerships and voluntary associations. - (a) Except as otherwise provided, process in any civil action...

Section 52-57a. - Service of process without state upon persons domiciled or subject to jurisdiction of courts in state. - A person domiciled in or subject to the jurisdiction of...

Section 52-57b, 52-58, 52-59 and 52-59a. - Service of process upon: Partnerships; corporations, by advertisement or otherwise; voluntary associations; nonresident and foreign partnerships doing business in Connecticut. - Sections 52-57b, 52-58, 52-59 and 52-59a are repealed. (1949, Rev.,...

Section 52-59b. - Jurisdiction of courts over nonresident individuals, foreign partnerships and foreign voluntary associations. Service of process. - (a) As to a cause of action arising from any...

Section 52-59c. - Service upon nonresident attaching creditor. - In any action brought to foreclose a mortgage or judgment,...

Section 52-59d. - Service of process outside country to be in accordance with treaty or convention or court order. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes relating to...

Section 52-60. - Judge of probate as attorney for nonresident fiduciary. Service of process. - (a) No appointment of a nonresident of this state as...

Section 52-61. - Service upon nonresident fiduciaries. - Process in civil actions against a nonresident executor, administrator, conservator,...

Section 52-62. - Service upon nonresident in action for negligent operation of motor vehicle. - (a) Any nonresident of this state who causes a motor...

Section 52-63. - Service of civil process upon Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in lieu of owner or operator of motor vehicle, authorized when. - (a) Any person whose last-known address is located in this...

Section 52-64. - Service in action against state. - (a) Service of civil process in any civil action or...

Section 52-65. - Service upon nonresident in a quo warranto case. - Service of an information in the nature of quo warranto...

Section 52-66. - Execution of process by borough bailiffs. - Section 52-66 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7783; P.A. 82-160,...

Section 52-67. - Service in actions on joint contracts. - In actions on joint contracts, the service of any process...

Section 52-68. - Notice to nonresident adverse or interested parties and interested parties unknown to plaintiff. - (a) The Superior Court, and the judges, clerks and assistant...

Section 52-69. - Notice to “representatives and creditors”, “widow” or “widower and heirs”. - The plaintiff in any action for equitable relief to which...

Section 52-70. - Endorsement on process for fees. Penalty for exacting illegal fees. - Each officer serving any process shall endorse thereon the items...

Section 52-71. - Process void if issued or served on Sunday. - Section 52-71 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7791; P.A. 76-415,...

Section 52-72. - Amendment of process. - (a) Upon payment of taxable costs, any court shall allow...

Chapter 897 - Parties and Appearances

Section 52-73. - Municipal corporations may sue and be sued. - Towns, societies, communities and corporations may prosecute and defend civil...

Section 52-73a. (Formerly Sec. 52-116). - Action on bond to municipal officer. - When any bond, note or other security is taken to...

Section 52-74. - Action on foreign probate bond. - Any bond entered into in accordance with the laws of...

Section 52-75. - Action by holder of mortgage or lien where grantee assumed the debt. - Whenever any real property encumbered by mortgage or lien is...

Section 52-76. - Actions by and against voluntary associations. - Any number of persons associated together as a voluntary association,...

Section 52-77. - Action by joint tenant or tenant in common; effect of nonjoinder. - Any joint tenant or tenant in common of land may...

Section 52-78. - Joinder of executor or administrator for a deceased joint contractor. - (a) In any case in which any joint contractor, other...

Section 52-79. - Joinder of husband and wife; costs. - Section 52-79 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev.,...

Section 52-80. - Nonsuits and withdrawals; costs. - If the plaintiff, in any action returned to court and...

Section 52-81. - Costs taxable on withdrawal. - Upon the withdrawal of any civil action after it has...

Section 52-82. - Withdrawal when court not in session or before return day. - The plaintiff may withdraw a civil action when the Superior...

Section 52-83. - Nonresident plaintiff's appearance by attorney sufficient. - In any action brought by one who is not an...

Section 52-84. - When judgment by default may be rendered. - When any process has been served on any defendant and...

Section 52-85. - When garnishee may move to assign case for trial. - When, in an action commenced in the Superior Court by...

Section 52-86. - When creditor may appear and defend. Costs. Prohibited defenses. - (a) In any action in which property has been attached,...

Section 52-87. - Continuance on account of absent or nonresident defendant. Exceptions. - (a) Every civil action in which the defendant is an...

Section 52-88. - Defense by garnishee. Continuance, postponement or adjournment of action. - In any action in which property is garnished, if the...

Chapter 898 - Pleading

Section 52-91. - Pleadings; contents of complaint. - There shall be one form of civil action. The first...

Section 52-91a. (Formerly Sec. 52-38). - Foreclosure. Redemption. Matter in demand. - In actions for the foreclosure of title or the redemption...

Section 52-92. - Demurrers to be specific. - Section 52-92 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012. (1949 Rev.,...

Section 52-93 to 52-96. - Answer; general and special denial. Plaintiff's reply; general and special denial; further pleadings. Pleading over allowed if demurrer overruled. Pleading of counterclaim and set-off. - Sections 52-93 to 52-96, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-97. - Union of legal and equitable causes of action; limitation. - In any civil action the plaintiff may include in his...

Section 52-98. - Pleadings to allege the material facts in concise form. - Section 52-98 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7820; P.A. 78-379,...

Section 52-99. - Untrue allegations or denials; costs. - Any allegation or denial made without reasonable cause and found...

Section 52-100. - Motions to expunge or correct pleadings. - Section 52-100 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7822; P.A. 78-379,...

Section 52-101. - Joinder of interested persons as plaintiffs. - All persons having an interest in the subject of a...

Section 52-102. - Joinder of persons with interest adverse to plaintiff and of necessary persons. - Upon motion made by any party or nonparty to a...

Section 52-102a. - Impleading of third party by defendant. Rights and remedies of third-party defendant. - (a) A defendant in any civil action may move the...

Section 52-102b. - Addition of person as defendant for apportionment of liability purposes. - (a) A defendant in any civil action to which section...

Section 52-103. - Citation of new parties by judge. - Any court, or a judge when the court is not...

Section 52-104. - Joinder of plaintiffs and consolidation of causes. - All persons may be joined in one action as plaintiffs...

Section 52-105. - Numerous parties may be represented by one. - When the persons who might be made parties are very...

Section 52-106. - Executor, administrator or trustee of express trust may sue or be sued alone. - An executor, administrator, or trustee of an express trust may...

Section 52-107. - Additional parties may be summoned in. - The court may determine the controversy as between the parties...

Section 52-108. - Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties. - An action shall not be defeated by the nonjoinder or...

Section 52-109. - Substituted plaintiff. - When any action has been commenced in the name of...

Section 52-110. - Summoning in of third parties by defendant who counterclaims. - When a counterclaim raises questions affecting the interests of third...

Section 52-111. - Effect of change of parties. - A change in parties, made by order of court, shall...

Section 52-112. - Insertion of names of partners in process in action by or against a partnership. - (a) In commencing a civil action by or against a...

Section 52-113. - Common counts; bill of particulars. - Section 52-113 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7835; P.A. 78-379,...

Section 52-114. - Pleading of contributory negligence. - In any action to recover damages for negligently causing the...

Section 52-115. - Pleading charters. - All acts of incorporation passed by the General Assembly may...

Section 52-117. - Action on probate bond. - (a) In any action upon a bond taken in a...

Section 52-118. - Action by assignee of chose in action. - The assignee and equitable and bona fide owner of any...

Section 52-119. - Pleading to be according to rules and orders of court. - Parties failing to plead according to the rules and orders...

Section 52-120. - Pleading filed by consent after expiration of time. - (a) Whenever any party or parties to a civil action,...

Section 52-121. - Pleading may be filed after expiration of time fixed, but prior to hearing on motion for default judgment or nonsuit. Judgment or penalty for failure to plead. - (a) Any pleading in any civil action may be filed...

Section 52-122. - Procedure in certain actions not changed. - Sections 52-1, 52-45a, 52-45b, 52-91, 52-97 and 52-279 shall not...

Section 52-123. - Circumstantial defects not to abate pleadings. - No writ, pleading, judgment or any kind of proceeding in...

Section 52-124 and 52-125. - Plea in abatement; issue of fact; answer over. Amendment after plea in abatement. - Sections 52-124 and 52-125 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7846,...

Section 52-126. - Action not abated on account of marriage. - An action commenced by a single person shall not abate...

Section 52-127. - Process not to be drawn or filled out by officer. - Any process or complaint drawn or filled out by a...

Section 52-128. - Amendment of pleadings by plaintiff; costs. - The plaintiff may amend any defect, mistake or informality in...

Section 52-129. - Amendment of pleadings in appeals from justices. - Section 52-129 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7851; 1959, P.A....

Section 52-130. - Amendment of defects, mistakes or informalities. - Parties may amend any defect, mistake or informality in the...

Section 52-131. - Amendment of claim against estate of insolvent debtor or deceased person. - In any hearing on the estate of an insolvent debtor...

Section 52-132 to 52-134. - Amendment of ad damnum clause. Relief beyond jurisdiction; transfer of action. Amendment raising damages after appeal from justice. - Sections 52-132 to 52-134, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-135. - Amendment of pleadings after default or demurrer overruled; costs. - The plaintiff, in any cause of action for unliquidated damages...

Section 52-136. - Amendment from contract to tort and vice versa. - The complaint in an action brought for breach of contract...

Section 52-137. - Amendment changing the relief sought. - If, on the trial upon an issue of fact or...

Section 52-138. - Amendment calling for legal relief; jury trial. - If any complaint is so amended as to call for...

Section 52-139. - Set-off of mutual debts; procedure. - (a) In any action brought for the recovery of a...

Section 52-140. - Set-off by defendant in suit by assignee. - In any action brought in his own name by the...

Section 52-141. - Set-off in action for trespass or tort. - (a) In a civil action for trespass to real or...

Section 52-142. - Joint debtors; discharge; set-off. - A discharge to one of several joint debtors, purporting to...

Chapter 899 - Evidence

Section 52-143. - Subpoenas for witnesses. Penalty for failure to appear and testify. - (a) Subpoenas for witnesses shall be signed by the clerk...

Section 52-144. - Form of subpoena. - The form of a subpoena may be as follows: To...

Section 52-145. - Certain witnesses not disqualified. Credibility. - (a) A person shall not be disqualified as a witness...

Section 52-146. - Wife as a witness against her husband. - A wife may be compelled to testify in any action...

Section 52-146b. - Privileged communications made to clergymen. - A clergyman, priest, minister, rabbi or practitioner of any religious...

Section 52-146c. - Privileged communications between psychologist and patient. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 52-146d. (Formerly Sec. 52-146a). - Privileged communications between psychiatric mental health provider and patient. Definitions. - As used in sections 52-146d to 52-146i, inclusive: (1) “Authorized...

Section 52-146e. - Disclosure of communications. - (a) All communications and records as defined in section 52-146d...

Section 52-146f. - Consent not required for disclosure, when. - Consent of the patient shall not be required for the...

Section 52-146g. - Access to communications and records by persons engaged in research. - (a) A person engaged in research may have access to...

Section 52-146h. - Transfer of information to Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Storage of records and communications. - (a) Any facility or individual under contract with the Department...

Section 52-146i. - Labeling of confidential records. - All written communications or records disclosed to another person or...

Section 52-146j. - Judicial relief. - (a) Any person aggrieved by a violation of sections 52-146d...

Section 52-146k. - Privileged communications between victim and domestic violence counselor or sexual assault counselor. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Domestic violence agency”...

Section 52-146l. - Disclosure of privileged communication by interpreter prohibited. - Any confidential communication which is deemed to be privileged under...

Section 52-146m. - Communication made by or to person who is deaf or hard of hearing with assistance of operator of special telecommunications equipment deemed privileged. - Any communication made by or to a person who is...

Section 52-146n. - Disclosure of confidential communications between Judicial Department employee and employee assistance program counselor prohibited. Information re participation in employee assistance program. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Employee assistance program...

Section 52-146o. - Disclosure of patient communication or information by physician, surgeon or health care provider prohibited. - (a) Except as provided in sections 52-146c to 52-146j, inclusive,...

Section 52-146p. - Disclosure of privileged communications between marital and family therapist and person consulting such therapist prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 52-146q. - Disclosure of confidential communications between social worker and person consulting such social worker prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 52-146r. - Disclosure of confidential communications between government attorney and public official or employee of public agency prohibited. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Authorized representative” means...

Section 52-146s. - Disclosure of confidential information between professional counselor and person consulting such professional counselor prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 52-146t. - Protection from compelled disclosure of information obtained by news media. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Information” has its...

Section 52-146u. - Disclosure of confidential communication between public defender and represented person prohibited. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 52-146v. - Disclosure of confidential communications between peer support team member and first responder prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Peer support team...

Section 52-146w. - Disclosure of patient communication or information relating to reproductive health care services by covered entity prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) Except as provided in sections 52-146c to 52-146k, inclusive,...

Section 52-146x. - Disclosure of patient communication or information relating to gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services by covered entity prohibited. Exceptions. - (a) Except as provided in sections 52-146c to 52-146k, inclusive,...

Section 52-147. - Written statements in actions to recover damages for personal injuries. - In any action to recover damages for personal injuries no...

Section 52-148. - Depositions in civil actions and probate proceedings. - Section 52-148 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7871; 1955, S....

Section 52-148a. - Taking of depositions. When court order necessary. - (a) Any party in a civil action or probate proceeding...

Section 52-148b. - Notice of taking of deposition. - (a) No party may take the deposition of any person...

Section 52-148c. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Before whom depositions may be taken. - (a) Within this state, depositions shall be taken before a...

Section 52-148d. - Requirements for taking of depositions. Party subject to taking of deposition. - (a) All witnesses or parties giving depositions shall be cautioned...

Section 52-148e. - Issuance of subpoena for taking of deposition. Deposition to be used in federal court or court of other state or foreign country. Objection to subpoena. - (a) Each judge or clerk of any court, justice of...

Section 52-149. - Depositions of persons sixty years old. - Section 52-149 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7872; 1955, S....

Section 52-149a. - Depositions of medical witnesses. - (a) The deposition of any physician, psychologist, chiropractor, naturopathic physician...

Section 52-150. - Interested persons not to write depositions. - Any deposition written, drawn up or dictated by the party,...

Section 52-151. - Custody and opening of depositions. - Depositions returned to the court shall remain in the custody...

Section 52-152. - Depositions of persons in armed forces. - (a) The court in which any civil action or probate...

Section 52-153 and 52-154. - Subpoena to deponent; commitment. Commission to take deposition of nonresident; notice where whereabouts of adverse party unknown. - Sections 52-153 and 52-154 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7876,...

Section 52-155. - (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2023.) Depositions before commissioner appointed by other jurisdiction. Compulsory process for witnesses. - (a) Each commissioner, appointed according to the laws or usages...

Section 52-155a. - Limitations on issuance of out-of-state subpoena request relating to reproductive health care services. - Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 52-155 and 52-657, a judge,...

Section 52-155b. - Limitations on issuance of out-of-state subpoena request relating to gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services. - Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 52-155 and 52-657, a judge,...

Section 52-156. - Preservation of the testimony of a witness. - (a) Any person who desires to preserve the testimony of...

Section 52-156a. - Deposition to perpetuate testimony before action or pending appeal. - (a)(1) A person who desires to perpetuate testimony regarding any...

Section 52-157. - Taking of deposition may be adjourned. - The authority before whom a deposition is taken may adjourn...

Section 52-158. - Deposition may be used in Appellate Court. - Section 52-158 is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (1949 Rev.,...

Section 52-159. - Deposition may be used in another action. - The testimony of any witness, taken by deposition, in any...

Section 52-159a. - Disclosure of names or reports of plaintiff's expert witnesses in malpractice action. - Section 52-159a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 702; 1969, P.A. 362;...

Section 52-160. - Admissibility in subsequent trial of testimony of witness recorded in former trial. - If any witness in a civil action is beyond the...

Section 52-161. - Transcript of stenographer's or court reporter's record part of official record. - An exemplified transcript of the record of any official stenographer...

Section 52-161a. - Subpoenaing of court reporter as witness. - No court reporter may be subpoenaed to testify as a...

Section 52-161b. - Subpoenaing of crime victim by pro se litigant. Court authorization required. - (a) A pro se litigant in any civil matter, including...

Section 52-162. - Exemplification of laws of other states. - Section 52-162 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7885; P.A. 90-19,...

Section 52-163. - Judicial notice of special acts, regulations of state and municipal agencies and municipal ordinances. - The court shall take judicial notice of: (1) Private or...

Section 52-163a. - Determination of the law of jurisdictions outside this state. - (a) In determining the law of any jurisdiction or governmental...

Section 52-164. - Reports of judicial decisions of other states. - The reports of the judicial decisions of other states and...

Section 52-165. - Records of corporations and public offices. - The entries or records of all corporations and all public...

Section 52-166. - Orders of state officials. - Any order made by any state official in the performance...

Section 52-167. - Corporation certificates; copies as prima facie evidence. - A copy of any certificate filed by any corporation for...

Section 52-168. - U.S. revenue stamps on recorded documents. - Certified copies of any memorandum made by a recording officer,...

Section 52-169. - Protests of bills and notes. - Protests of inland bills of exchange and promissory notes, protested...

Section 52-170. - Records of directors of health and religious societies. - The records of the proceedings of directors of health of...

Section 52-171. - Sworn copies of files and records. - The files, records, votes and proceedings of any court, community,...

Section 52-172. - Declarations and memoranda of deceased persons. - In actions by or against the representatives of deceased persons,...

Section 52-173. - Entries admissible for those claiming title from decedent. - Whenever the entries and written memoranda of a deceased person...

Section 52-174. - Admissibility of records and reports of certain expert witnesses as business entries. - (a) In all actions for the recovery of damages for...

Section 52-174a. - Admissibility of reports or bills re pregnancy, childbirth or genetic or blood testing as business record. - In any action, petition or proceeding under chapters 815j, 815y...

Section 52-175. - Entries and memoranda of mentally ill and incapable persons. - (a) In the trial of any civil action in which...

Section 52-175a. - Negligence action, construction of acts of blind person. - The failure of a blind person to use a guide...

Section 52-176. - Promise to pay barred debt to be in writing. - In any action against the representatives of a deceased person,...

Section 52-177. - Action on bond. Burden of proving value of principal's interest. - Whenever, in any action brought upon a bond given in...

Section 52-178. - Adverse party or officer, agent or employee thereof may be compelled to testify. - A party to a civil action or probate proceeding: (1)...

Section 52-178a. - Physical examination of plaintiff, when. - In any action to recover damages for personal injuries, the...

Section 52-179. - Seal and its equivalent. - All instruments in writing executed by any person or corporation...

Section 52-180. - Admissibility of business entries and photographic copies. - (a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of...

Section 52-180a. - Admissibility of out-of-state hospital record or bill for treatment. - Any and all parts of any hospital record or bill...

Section 52-180b. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Presumption against admission of evidence of prior criminal conviction of applicant or employee. - There shall be a rebuttable presumption against admission of evidence...

Section 52-180c. - Admissibility of evidence of sexual misconduct. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Sexual misconduct” means...

Section 52-181. - Evidence of death or capture. - An official written report or record, or certified copy thereof,...

Section 52-182. - Presumption of family car or motorboat in operation by certain person. - Proof that the operator of a motor vehicle or a...

Section 52-183. - Presumption of agency in motor vehicle operation. - In any civil action brought against the owner of a...

Section 52-184a. - Evidence obtained illegally by electronic device inadmissible. - No evidence obtained illegally by the use of any electronic...

Section 52-184b. - Failure to bill and advance payments inadmissible in malpractice cases. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “health care provider”...

Section 52-184c. - Standard of care in negligence action against health care provider. Qualifications of expert witness. - (a) In any civil action to recover damages resulting from...

Section 52-184d. - Inadmissibility of apology made by health care provider to alleged victim of unanticipated outcome of medical care. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Health care...

Section 52-184e. - Admissibility of amount of damages awarded to plaintiff in separate action against different health care provider. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Licensed health...

Chapter 900 - Court Practice and Procedure

Section 52-185. - Bond or recognizance for prosecution. - (a) No bond or recognizance for prosecution is required from...

Section 52-186 to 52-188. - Court may order bond. Member of community defending to give bond. Court may order bond by nonresident defendant in realty action. - Sections 52-186 to 52-188, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1,...

Section 52-189. - Surety company bond acceptable. - Any surety company chartered by this state or authorized to...

Section 52-190. - Action on probate bond. Endorsement of writ. - Section 52-190 is repealed, effective October 1, 2015. (1949 Rev.,...

Section 52-190a. - Prior reasonable inquiry and certificate of good faith required in negligence action against a health care provider. Ninety-day extension of statute of limitations. - (a) No civil action or apportionment complaint shall be filed...

Section 52-190b. - Designation of negligence action against health care provider as complex litigation case. - Not later than six months after the filing of an...

Section 52-190c. - Mandatory mediation for negligence action against health care provider. Stipulation by mediator and parties. Rules. - (a) There shall be mandatory mediation for all civil actions...

Section 52-191. - Precedence of actions in favor of the state. - All civil actions brought by or on behalf of the...

Section 52-191a. - Precedence of certain actions involving zoning ordinances and regulations. - Any civil action wherein one of the issues is the...

Section 52-191b. - Precedence of proceedings involving planning commissions. - Any legal proceeding to which any municipal planning commission is...

Section 52-191c. - Precedence of actions involving terminally ill persons. - (a) Any civil action to which a terminally ill person...

Section 52-192. - Precedence of other cases in order of trial. - Any objections made to the acceptance of the report of...

Section 52-192a. - Offer of compromise by plaintiff. Acceptance by defendant. Amount and computation of interest. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 52-192b. - Offers of judgment. Applicability. - Sections 52-192a to 52-195, inclusive, of the general statutes, revision...

Section 52-193. - Offer of compromise by defendant. - In any action on contract, or seeking the recovery of...

Section 52-194. - Acceptance of defendant's offer of compromise. - In any action, the plaintiff may, within sixty days after...

Section 52-195. - Effect of failure to accept defendant's offer of compromise. - (a) If the plaintiff does not, within the time allowed...

Section 52-195a. (Formerly Sec. 52-256). - Unliquidated damages; tender. - Any party upon whom a claim for unliquidated damages is...

Section 52-195b. - Referral of civil action involving motor vehicle to alternative dispute resolution program. Expedited process case. Privileged case. - Section 52-195b is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (P.A. 93-297,...

Section 52-195c. - Time period for payment of settlement amount. - (a) When an action to recover damages has been settled,...

Section 52-196. - Motion to continue or postpone. - Whenever in any action pending in the Superior Court a...

Section 52-196a. - Filing of special motion to dismiss based on exercise of certain state or federal constitutional rights in connection with matter of public concern. Court procedure. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Matter of public...

Section 52-197. - Motion for disclosure. Rules. - (a) In any civil action, the court, upon motion of...

Section 52-197b. - Discovery outside country to be in accordance with treaty or convention or court order. - (a) If an applicable treaty or convention including, but not...

Section 52-198. - Disclosure; examination of officer of corporation. - If a corporation is party to an action, the opposite...

Section 52-199. - Questions which need not be answered. Self-incrimination. - (a) In any hearing or trial, a party interrogated shall...

Section 52-200. - Disclosure not conclusive. - When either party in any action has obtained from the...

Section 52-200a. - Defendant's insurance liability policy limits and insurer's duty to indemnify subject to discovery. - In any civil action founded upon negligence, both the defendant's...

Section 52-201. - Action on nonnegotiable instruments; defense. Assignment. - Section 52-201 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7953; 1959, P.A....

Section 52-203. - Demand for receipt not to vitiate a legal tender. - The requirement or demand for a receipt for such amount...

Section 52-204. - Recovery of expenditures by husband or parent. - In any civil action arising out of personal injury or...

Section 52-205. - Court may determine order in which issues shall be tried. - In all cases, whether entered upon the docket as jury...

Section 52-206. - Writings; admission of their execution. - (a) Either party to a civil action may, by a...

Section 52-207. - Defense based on Sunday contract. - No person who has received a valuable consideration for a...

Section 52-208. - Reception of evidence objected to as inadmissible. - Whenever evidence offered upon the trial of any civil action...

Section 52-209. - Argument of counsel; time limit. - In a trial before the Superior Court, counsel shall not...

Section 52-210. - Motion for nonsuit. - If, on the trial of any issue of fact in...

Section 52-211. - Refusal to set aside nonsuit; appeal. - If a nonsuit has been so granted in the Superior...

Section 52-212. - Opening judgment upon default or nonsuit. - (a) Any judgment rendered or decree passed upon a default...

Section 52-212a. - Civil judgment or decree opened or set aside within four months only. - Unless otherwise provided by law and except in such cases...

Section 52-213 and 52-214. - Justice of the peace to keep docket, entry fee. Jury in suit before justice of the peace. - Sections 52-213 and 52-214 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7552,...

Section 52-215. - Dockets. Jury cases. Court cases. - In the Superior Court a docket shall be kept of...

Section 52-215a. - Jury of six in civil actions. - On the trial of any civil action to a jury,...

Section 52-216. - Deciding questions of law and of fact. - The court shall decide all issues of law and all...

Section 52-216a. - Reading of agreements or releases to jury prohibited. Adjustments for excessive and inadequate verdicts permitted. - An agreement with any tortfeasor not to bring legal action...

Section 52-216b. - Articulation to trier of fact of amount of damages claimed to be recoverable permitted. - (a) In any civil action to recover damages resulting from...

Section 52-216c. - Failure to call a witness. Jury instruction prohibited; argument by counsel permitted. - No court in the trial of a civil action may...

Section 52-217. - Violation of statute by minor. - In all actions for recovery of damages for injury to...

Section 52-218. - Jury may try issues of fact in equitable action. - Upon the application of either party, the court may order...

Section 52-219. - Claim for damages and equitable relief; separate trials. - Whenever an action brought to recover damages and also to...

Section 52-220. - Hearing in damages: When to jury. - In any action at law in which the defendant suffers...

Section 52-221. - Hearing in damages: Evidence. Notice. - (a) In any hearing in damages upon default suffered or...

Section 52-221a. - Hearing in damages: Proof of damages on defendant's failure to appear. - In any hearing in damages at which the defendant fails...

Section 52-222. - Verdict by nine jurors. - Section 52-222 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7971; 1971, P.A....

Section 52-223. - Jury may be three times returned to consider verdict. - The court may, if it judges the jury has mistaken...

Section 52-224. - Special verdicts. Jury to assess damages. - (a) The court shall determine questions of law referred to...

Section 52-225. - Judgment on verdict; assessment of damages when judgment rendered other than on verdict. - The court shall render judgment on all verdicts of the...

Section 52-225a. - Reduction in economic damages in personal injury and wrongful death actions for collateral source payments. - (a) In any civil action, whether in tort or in...

Section 52-225b. - “Collateral sources” defined. - For purposes of sections 52-225a to 52-225c, inclusive: “Collateral sources”...

Section 52-225c. - Recovery of collateral source benefits prohibited. - Unless otherwise provided by law, no insurer or any other...

Section 52-225d. - Payment of damages in lump sum and periodic installments in personal injury, wrongful death and property damage actions. - (a) In any civil action wherein the claimant seeks to...

Section 52-225e. - Notice of settlement in excess of ten thousand dollars by insurer to claimant. - (a) Upon the payment in settlement of any third-party liability...

Section 52-225f. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights prior to October 1, 2003. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Annuity issuer” means...

Section 52-225g. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: Definitions. - For the purposes of sections 52-225g to 52-225l inclusive: (1)...

Section 52-225h. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: Required disclosures to payee. - Not less than three days prior to the date on...

Section 52-225i. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: Approval. - No direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights...

Section 52-225j. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: Effect. - Following a transfer of structured settlement payment rights under sections...

Section 52-225k. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: Procedure for approval. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 52-225l. - Transfer of structured settlement payment rights: General provisions. - (a) The provisions of sections 52-225g to 52-225l, inclusive, may...

Section 52-226. - Trial to the court. Special finding. - In any action for legal relief, when the parties join...

Section 52-226a. - Special finding that action or defense without merit and not in good faith. - In any civil action tried to a jury, after the...

Section 52-227. - Judgment for or against some of the parties only. - In any civil action in which a cause of action...

Section 52-228. - Judgment too large; remittitur; correction. - If any judgment is rendered, by mistake or clerical error,...

Section 52-228a. - Appeal from order of remittitur or additur. - In any jury case where the court orders a decrease...

Section 52-228b. - Setting aside of verdict in action claiming money damages. - No verdict in any civil action involving a claim for...

Section 52-228c. - Remittitur when noneconomic damages in negligence action against health care provider determined to be excessive. - Whenever in a civil action to recover damages resulting from...

Section 52-229 and 52-230. - Continuance of cases on docket of Superior Court or Court of Common Pleas. Discontinuance of cases in Circuit Court. - Sections 52-229 and 52-230 are repealed. (1953, S. 3184d; 1955,...

Section 52-231. - Facts on which judgments found to appear on record. - Each court shall keep a record of its proceedings and...

Section 52-231a. - Filing of affidavit re other custody proceedings; visitation rights. - Before any court enters any decree in a matter pending...

Section 52-231b. - Entry of order or judgment or approval of settlement that prohibits or restricts disclosure of sexual abuse of minor prohibited. - In any action to recover damages for personal injury to...

Section 52-232. - Judge to file memorandum of decision on demurrer. - Section 52-232 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7981; P.A. 78-379,...

Section 52-233. - Certification of statutory appeals taken to a judge. - Whenever any statutory appeal from the doings of any administrative...

Section 52-234. - Time for entering of justice appeals. - Section 52-234 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7966; 1959, P.A....

Section 52-235. - Reservation of questions of law. - (a) The Superior Court, or any judge of the court,...

Section 52-235a. - Declaratory judgment to determine orders of priorities. - In any action in which order of priorities could be...

Section 52-235b. - Proceedings stayed if attorney unable to appear. - If, prior to judgment, an attorney for any reason ceases...

Section 52-235c. - Referral to alternative dispute resolution program. Stay of proceedings in court. - The court may, upon stipulation of the parties, refer a...

Section 52-235d. - Mediation. Disclosure. - (a) As used in this section, “mediation” means a process,...

Section 52-235e. - Stay of proceedings in action against crime victim during pendency of criminal proceeding. - Any civil action brought against a crime victim, as defined...

Section 52-235f. - Referral to arbitration of civil action involving claim for bodily injury arising out of motor vehicle accident. - In any civil action where the party who brought the...

Chapter 901 - Damages, Costs and Fees

Section 52-236. - Actions on contract; evidence of damages since suit. - In any action founded on contract, for the recovery of...

Section 52-237. - Damages in actions for libel. - In any action for a libel, the defendant may give...

Section 52-238. - Damages in actions on penal bonds. - (a) In any action on a penal bond, containing any...

Section 52-239. - When broadcasting stations, networks, CATV systems liable for defamation. - The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound...

Section 52-240. - Effect of damages on costs. - (a) In any action founded on tort tried in the...

Section 52-240a. - Award of attorney's fees in product liability action. - If the court determines that the claim or defense is...

Section 52-240b. - Punitive damages in product liability actions. - Punitive damages may be awarded if the claimant proves that...

Section 52-241 and 52-242. - Municipal courts; costs in contract actions. Costs on appeal from justice or municipal court. - Sections 52-241 and 52-242 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7986,...

Section 52-243. - Costs when plaintiff is partly successful. - If a verdict is found on any issue joined in...

Section 52-244. - When plaintiff not to recover costs. - Costs shall not be recovered by the plaintiff in any...

Section 52-245. - False statement concerning defense. Costs. - In any case in which an affidavit has been filed...

Section 52-246. - Costs for service by indifferent person. - Costs shall not be taxed, without the written consent of...

Section 52-247. - Officer's fees on foreign attachment when garnishee not cited in. - In any action commenced by process of foreign attachment or...

Section 52-248. - Costs when there are more civil actions than necessary. - When two or more civil actions are pending in the...

Section 52-249. - Costs and attorney's fees in actions for foreclosure and substitution of bond. - (a) The plaintiff in any action of foreclosure of a...

Section 52-249a. - Costs and attorney's fee in action upon a bond substituted for a mechanic's lien. - A plaintiff who prevails in any action upon a bond...

Section 52-250. - Costs of application to dissolve injunction. - The costs of an application to dissolve an injunction may...

Section 52-251. - Expenses and counsel fees in action to construe will or for advice concerning will or trust. - In any action brought to a court of equitable jurisdiction...

Section 52-251a. - Costs, attorney's fees on small claims matter transferred to regular docket. - Whenever the plaintiff prevails in a small claims matter which...

Section 52-251b. - Costs and attorney's fees in action for deprivation of civil rights. - (a) In any civil action to recover damages for injury...

Section 52-251c. - Limitation on attorney contingency fees in personal injury, wrongful death and property damage actions. Waiver of limitation by claimant. - (a) In any claim or civil action to recover damages...

Section 52-251d. - Attorney's fees in action to establish parentage or establish, modify or enforce child support orders in temporary family assistance cases. - (a) In any civil action to establish parentage or to...

Section 52-252. - Costs for nonappearance of party giving notice of deposition. - When a notice is given to an adverse party or...

Section 52-253. - Costs in suit against manufacturers for nuisance. - Costs upon a complaint against a manufacturer under section 52-481,...

Section 52-254. - Costs in amicable suit. - All costs incurred in any amicable suit, under chapter 908,...

Section 52-255. - Costs on motion to expunge. - Section 52-255 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8001; P.A. 82-160,...

Section 52-256a. (Formerly Sec. 46-27). - Award of attorney's and officer's fees in contempt action. - Section 52-256a is repealed. (1957, P.A. 23; 1959, P.A. 159;...

Section 52-256b. - Award of attorney's and officer's fees in contempt action. - (a) When any person is found in contempt of any...

Section 52-257. - Fees of parties in civil actions. - (a) The fees of parties in civil actions in which...

Section 52-257a. - Fees in Circuit Court. - Section 52-257a is repealed. (1959, P.A. 28, S. 37; 1963,...

Section 52-258. - Jury fees. - The jury fee in civil actions shall be four hundred...

Section 52-259. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Court fees. - (a) There shall be paid to the clerks for entering...

Section 52-259a. - Exemptions from certain fee requirements. - (a) Any member of the Division of Criminal Justice or...

Section 52-259b. - Waiver of fees and payment of the cost of service of process for indigent party. - (a) In any civil or criminal matter, if the court...

Section 52-259c. - Fee to open, set aside, modify, extend or reargue judgment. - (a) There shall be paid to the clerk of the...

Section 52-259d. - Additional fee for civil causes. - Section 52-259d is repealed, effective July 1, 2004. (June Sp....

Section 52-260. - Witness fees. - (a) The fees of a witness for attendance before any...

Section 52-261. - Fees and expenses of officers and persons serving process or performing other duties. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section...

Section 52-261a. - Fees and expenses of officers and persons serving process or performing other duties for the Judicial Department or Division of Criminal Justice. - (a) Any process served by any officer or person for...

Section 52-262. - Fees for signing process, administering oaths, acknowledgments. - Any person legally authorized, except when otherwise provided and except...

Chapter 902 - Appeals to the Supreme Court

Section 52-263. - Appeals from Superior Court. Exceptions. - Upon the trial of all matters of fact in any...

Section 52-264. - Judges of Supreme Court to make rules for appeals and writs of error. - The judges of the Supreme Court shall make such orders...

Section 52-265. - Action of Supreme Court on appeals and writs of error. Costs. - (a) On an appeal or writ of error, if the...

Section 52-265a. - Direct appeal on questions involving the public interest. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 52-264 and 52-265, any...

Section 52-266. - Several issues; new trial to be limited to issue in error. - If several issues are presented by the pleadings and, on...

Section 52-267. - Judge dying or ceasing to hold office at the time of decision; cause remanded to court rendering decision. - If, at the time of the decision upon an appeal...

Section 52-268. - New trial when judge, stenographer or court reporter dies or becomes incapacitated and review of errors not possible. - (a) Any party who intends to appeal or has appealed...

Section 52-269. - Record fee in Supreme Court. - Section 52-269 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8011; 1959, P.A....

Chapter 903 - New Trials

Section 52-270. - Causes for which new trials may be granted. - (a) The Superior Court may grant a new trial of...

Section 52-270a and 52-271. - Period in which new trial may be brought; affidavit evidence of want of notice. New trial in justice suit where judgment rendered prior to January 1, 1961. - Sections 52-270a and 52-271 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8014;...

Section 52-272 and 52-273. - Writs of error in matters of law only; return days. Writ of error; limitations. - Sections 52-272 and 52-273 are repealed, effective June 26, 2003....

Section 52-274. - Writs of error from summary process judgments. - Section 52-274 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8017; March, 1958,...

Section 52-275 to 52-278. - Allowance and signing of writs of error. Service and return of writs of error. Judgment on affirmance or withdrawal of writ of error. Execution on judgment while writ of error pending. - Sections 52-275 to 52-278, inclusive, are repealed, effective June 26,...

Chapter 903a - Prejudgment Remedies

Section 52-278a. - Definitions. - The following terms, as used in sections 52-278a to 52-278g,...

Section 52-278b. - Availability of prejudgment remedy. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary,...

Section 52-278c. - Documents required. Forms. Scheduling a hearing. Service on defendant. Notice and claim form. Request for hearing by defendant. - (a) Except as provided in sections 52-278e and 52-278f, any...

Section 52-278d. - Hearing on prejudgment remedy application. Determination by the court. Service of process. Stay of order. Posting of bond by plaintiff. - (a) The defendant shall have the right to appear and...

Section 52-278e. - Allowance of prejudgment remedy without hearing. Notice to defendant. Claim form. Subsequent hearing and order. Attachment of real property of municipal officers. - (a) The court or a judge of the court may...

Section 52-278f. - Issuance of prejudgment remedy when defendant in commercial transaction has waived notice and hearing. - In an action upon a commercial transaction, as defined in...

Section 52-278g. - Motion to preserve existing prejudgment remedies. - A plaintiff who has secured a prejudgment remedy prior to...

Section 52-278h. - Application for prejudgment remedy filed by the plaintiff. - The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any application...

Section 52-278i. (Formerly Sec. 52-282). - Order for prejudgment remedy on set-off or counterclaim. - Any defendant in any civil action, upon filing a set-off...

Section 52-278j. - Dismissal or withdrawal of prejudgment remedy. - (a) If an application for a prejudgment remedy is granted...

Section 52-278k. - Modification of prejudgment remedy. - The court may, upon any application for prejudgment remedy under...

Section 52-278l. - Appeal. - (a) An order (1) granting or denying a prejudgment remedy...

Section 52-278m. - When personal service not required. - Whenever a prejudgment remedy is sought under the provisions of...

Section 52-278n. - Motion to disclose property. Order for disclosure. Substitution of surety. - (a) The court may, on motion of a party, order...

Chapter 904 - Attachments

Section 52-279. - When attachments may be granted. - Attachments may be granted upon all complaints containing a money...

Section 52-280. - Service of writ of attachment. - A writ of attachment shall be served by attaching the...

Section 52-281. - Order for attachment on plaintiff's application during pendency of action. - Section 52-281 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8069; 1959, P.A....

Section 52-283. - Certain attachments effective without removal of property. - Attachments of machinery, engines or implements, situated and used in...

Section 52-283a. - Discharge of attachment. - Each person who has filed a notice of attachment as...

Section 52-284. - Attachment against nonresident. - When the defendant is not a resident or inhabitant of...

Section 52-285. - Attachment of real estate. - Real estate shall be attached by the officer by leaving...

Section 52-286. - Attachment of leasehold interests. - Leasehold interests in real estate, oyster lots or beds, franchises...

Section 52-287. - Attachment of fixtures of telephone or electric distribution company or association. - The fixtures of every telephone or electric distribution company, or...

Section 52-288. - Attachment of railroad cars and motor vehicles. - Section 52-288 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8030; 1967, P.A....

Section 52-289. - Attachment of corporate rights or shares. - Rights or shares in the stock of any corporation, together...

Section 52-290 and 52-291. - Attachment of property purchased on condition. Disclosure by vendor of claim on the property. - Sections 52-290 and 52-291 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8032,...

Section 52-292. - Attachment in actions against voluntary associations and their members. - The property of a voluntary association, whether held by it...

Section 52-293. - Sale of attached livestock and perishable property. - When any livestock, or other personal property in its nature...

Section 52-294. - Procedure on sale of attached property. - When the plaintiff intends to make application for a sale...

Section 52-295. - Costs and expenses of appraisal. - The costs of the appraisal shall be paid by the...

Section 52-296. - Disposition of avails of attachment sale. - If the suit upon which such property was attached is...

Section 52-297. - Avails of attachment sale may be attached. - After the money accruing from the sale of the property...

Section 52-298. - Defendant may take avails of sale on giving bond. - The defendant may, at any time during the pendency of...

Section 52-299. - Attachment of partnership property for partner's debt. - When any action is brought to or is pending in...

Section 52-300. - Discontinuance of attachment proceedings; security. - Any court or judge before whom any proceedings relative to...

Section 52-301 to 52-303. - Statement of claim of plaintiff may be required on defendant's application. Discharge of excessive attachment; cost of proceeding. - Sections 52-301 to 52-303, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-304. - Dissolution of attachment by substitution of bond or lien. - When any estate is attached, or any debt or effects...

Section 52-305. - Form of application for dissolution. - The application may be in form substantially as follows: To...

Section 52-306. - Notice of application to dissolve attachment. - No attachment shall be dissolved until reasonable notice of the...

Section 52-307. - Amount of attachment bond or substitute lien; hearing as to sufficiency. - All persons interested may be heard in relation to the...

Section 52-308. - Form of attachment bond. - The bond shall be taken to the plaintiff and be...

Section 52-309. - Return of application, bond or certified copy of lien and proceedings. - The authority dissolving the attachment, if it is other than...

Section 52-310. - Certificate of dissolution of attachment. - The defendant, if the attachment dissolved is of real estate,...

Section 52-311. - Attachment; new bond or lien may be required. - The court before which any action may be pending, in...

Section 52-312 to 52-320. - Discharge from arrest on mesne process. Bail when person arrested on civil process. Special bail required in order to plead. Taking of bail after term or session of court. Liability of surety on bail bond. Actions on bail... - Sections 52-312 to 52-320, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-321. - Liability of income of trust fund to creditors. Expenses of trustee. - Except as provided in sections 52-321a and 52-352b: (a) If...

Section 52-321a. - Trust or retirement income and certain retirement, education and medical savings accounts and group annuity contracts unavailable to creditors. Exceptions for qualified domestic relations order, recovery of costs of incarceration a... - (a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 52-322. - Certificate of plaintiff dissolving attachment and removing lien upon happening of certain events or attachment becoming ineffective. - When the estate of any person has been attached in...

Section 52-323. - Penalty for not filing certificate. - Section 52-323 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8055; 1969, P.A....

Section 52-324. - Certificate of court clerk upon happening of certain events or attachment becoming ineffective. - If an attachment, such as is set forth in section...

Section 52-325. - Notice of lis pendens. - (a) In any action in a court of this state...

Section 52-325a. - Application for discharge. Forms. Hearing. - (a) Whenever a notice of lis pendens is recorded against...

Section 52-325b. - Burden of proof at hearing. Order of court. - (a) Upon the hearing held on the application or motion...

Section 52-325c. - Appeal. - (a) Any order entered as provided in subsection (b) of...

Section 52-325d. - Motion for discharge of invalid notice of lis pendens. - In any action in which (1) a notice of lis...

Section 52-325e. - Duration of notice of lis pendens. Rerecording. - (a) No notice of lis pendens recorded against any real...

Section 52-326. - Discharge of lis pendens and invalid liens. - The provisions of sections 52-322 and 52-324 shall apply, mutatis...

Section 52-327. - Duration of attachment lien on real estate. Discharge upon expiration. - No attachment of real estate shall continue in force as...

Section 52-328. - Duration of attachment liens after judgment. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section,...

Chapter 905 - Foreign Attachments

Section 52-329. - Process of foreign attachment. - When the effects of the defendant in any proposed or...

Section 52-330. - Citing garnishee to disclose. - The plaintiff may insert in the writ a direction to...

Section 52-331. - Disclosure by garnishee to officer. - The officer serving process upon any person or corporation named...

Section 52-332. - Corporation as garnishee; disclosure; nonappearance. - If any corporation made a garnishee and cited in to...

Section 52-333. - Liability of garnishee for not appearing. - If any garnishee, cited in to disclose before a court...

Section 52-334. - Disclosure by garnishee. - The court may examine upon oath any garnishee cited in...

Section 52-335. - Service of garnishee process on corporation. - When any corporation, engaged in transacting business in any other...

Section 52-336. - Service on disbursing agent or paymaster of garnishee. - When any corporation having a disbursing agent or paymaster, with...

Section 52-337. - Service on bank or trust company as garnishee. - Whenever a bank, savings bank, trust company or industrial bank...

Section 52-337a. - Garnishment of checking account. - Section 52-337a is repealed. (1963, P.A. 580; P.A. 76-401, S....

Section 52-338. - Service on nonresident garnishee. - When the garnishee does not reside in this state, but...

Section 52-339. - Service on partnership garnishees. - When a partnership, the business of which is transacted by...

Section 52-340. - Subrogation of factorizing creditor. - In actions by foreign attachment, the plaintiff shall be entitled...

Section 52-341. - Attachment of debt evidenced by negotiable note. - When a debt evidenced by a negotiable promissory note has...

Section 52-342. - Presentation of debt by attaching creditor to decedent's or insolvent estate. - When any debt due or to become due any person...

Section 52-343. - Death of garnishee pending attachment. - If any executor, administrator or trustee, in whose hands any...

Section 52-344. - Levy of execution as a discharge of garnishee. - The taking of any effects or debt by judgment of...

Section 52-345. - Judgment debt attached. Stay of execution. - If any judgment debt is taken by foreign attachment, the...

Section 52-346. - Garnishments of mortgages. - The plaintiff in any civil action in which garnishee process...

Chapter 906 - Postjudgment Procedures

Section 52-347 to 52-350. - Form of execution. Service and return of execution. Interest on judgments collected on executions. Execution upon unsatisfied judgment of justice. - Sections 52-347 to 52-350, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-350a. - Definitions. - For the purposes of this chapter and section 49-51, unless...

Section 52-350b. - Applicability. - (a) Sections 49-51, 52-350a, 52-350c to 52-350f, inclusive, 52-351a, 52-351b,...

Section 52-350c. - Rules of court. Forms. - The judges of the Superior Court may adopt any rules...

Section 52-350d. - Jurisdiction of Superior Court. - (a) For the purposes of postjudgment procedures, the Superior Court...

Section 52-350e. - Service of process. - (a) Unless otherwise provided by section 52-351a, 52-351b, 52-356a, 52-356b...

Section 52-350f. - Enforcement of money judgment. Costs, fees and interest. - A money judgment may be enforced against any property of...

Section 52-351. - New judgment to include unsatisfied costs of execution. - Any court issuing an execution on which the costs thereon...

Section 52-351a. - Notice of enforcement action to be given judgment debtor. - When a lien is placed on any property or when...

Section 52-351b. - Discovery by judgment creditor. - (a) A judgment creditor may obtain discovery from the judgment...

Section 52-352. - Property exempt from attachment and execution. - Section 52-352 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8104; P.A. 74-64;...

Section 52-352a. - Definitions for exempt property provisions. - As used in this section and sections 52-352b and 52-353:...

Section 52-352b. - Exempt property. - The following property of any natural person shall be exempt:...

Section 52-352c. - Additional exempt property. - Section 52-352c is repealed. (P.A. 77-466, S. 3; P.A. 78-331,...

Section 52-352d. - Exempt property of farm partnership. - (a) As used in this section, “exempt” has the same...

Section 52-353. - Levy on and sale of personal property exempt to a certain amount. - When an execution debtor owns any personal property which, if...

Section 52-354 and 52-355. - Exemption of sick benefits and insurance moneys. Exemption of body from execution. - Sections 52-354 and 52-355 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8103,...

Section 52-355a. - Judgment lien on personal property. - (a) Except in the case of a consumer judgment, a...

Section 52-356. - Levy on personal estate. - Section 52-356 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8097; P.A. 81-410,...

Section 52-356a. - Execution against certain nonexempt personal property. Fees. - (a) Procedure. Levying officer's responsibilities. (1) On application of a...

Section 52-356b. - Court order for transfer of specified property or evidence. - (a) If a judgment is unsatisfied, the judgment creditor may...

Section 52-356c. - Determination of interests in disputed property. - (a) Where a dispute exists between the judgment debtor or...

Section 52-356d. - Installment payment order. - (a) When a judgment is rendered against a natural person,...

Section 52-357 to 52-361. - Demand on execution when defendant has left the state. Sale on execution at other place than signpost. Adjournment of execution sale. When indifferent person may conduct execution sale. Execution on wages after judgment. - Sections 52-357 to 52-361, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-361a. - Execution on wages after judgment. - (a) Application. If a judgment debtor fails to comply with...

Section 52-361b. - Notification of judgment debtor's rights. Claim for exemption or modification. - (a) A property execution pursuant to section 52-356a to be...

Section 52-362. - Income withholding and unemployment compensation for support. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Dependent” means...

Section 52-362a. - Welfare support executions. - Section 52-362a is repealed. (1969, P.A. 551, S. 1, 2;...

Section 52-362b. - Priority of voluntary wage deduction authorization for support over wage executions. - A voluntary wage deduction authorization for payment of amounts due...

Section 52-362c. - Voluntary wage deduction authorization for support. - A voluntary wage deduction authorization for payment of amounts due...

Section 52-362d. - Lien against property of obligor for unpaid child support. Securing, releasing or foreclosing lien. Notice of lien and opportunity for hearing. Information re unpaid support reported to participating consumer reporting agency. Offs... - (a) Whenever an order of the Superior Court or a...

Section 52-362e. - Withholding federal income tax refunds in amount equal to support arrearage. Procedures. Eligibility. Regulations. - (a) Subject to the provisions of section 52-362h, whenever an...

Section 52-362f. - Enforcement of child support orders by income withholding. - (a) As used in this section, unless the context requires...

Section 52-362g. - Notice by IV-D agency for collection of current or past due child support payments. - Any written notice sent by or on behalf of the...

Section 52-362h. - Defense re withholding support arrearage from federal and state income tax refunds. - For the purpose only of submission to the Internal Revenue...

Section 52-362i. - Court may require cash deposit of support to be held by Office of Child Support Services or Support Enforcement Services. - If the court or family support magistrate finds that (1)...

Section 52-362j. - “Past-due support”, “overdue support”, defined. - For the purposes of sections 52-362d, 52-362e, 52-362g, and 52-362h:...

Section 52-363. - Levy on machinery, implements and crops. Removal. - Section 52-363 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8106; March, 1958,...

Section 52-364. - Levy against partnership. - No execution upon a judgment rendered against copartners shall be...

Section 52-365. - Demand on execution against voluntary association. - Demand on execution, upon a judgment rendered against a voluntary...

Section 52-366 and 52-367. - Levy of execution against oyster-bed association. Levy on corporate stock. - Sections 52-366 and 52-367 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8109,...

Section 52-367a. - Execution against debts due from financial institution. Judgment debtor other than natural person. - (a) As used in this section and section 52-367b, “financial...

Section 52-367b. - Execution against debts due from financial institution. Natural person as judgment debtor. - (a) Exempt debts. Execution may be granted pursuant to this...

Section 52-367c. - Execution against lottery and pari-mutuel winnings. - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, on...

Section 52-368 to 52-380. - Levy on: Interest of one railroad in property of another railroad; body execution; body for want of bail; real estate; real estate of voluntary association. Return and record of levy on real estate. Levy on: Equity in real... - Sections 52-368 to 52-380, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Section 52-380a. - Judgment lien on real property. - (a) A judgment lien, securing the unpaid amount of any...

Section 52-380b. (Formerly Sec. 49-54). - Judgment lien on property of telephone or electric distribution company or association. - Any property of any telephone or electric distribution company, or...

Section 52-380c. (Formerly Sec. 49-40b). - Judgment liens expired by limitation of time. - Any judgment lien which has expired for failure to comply...

Section 52-380d. (Formerly Sec. 49-46a). - Release of judgment lien on real or personal property. Form. - (a) A judgment lien on real or personal property may...

Section 52-380e. - Discharge of judgment lien on substitution of bond or lien on other property. - When a lien is placed on any real or personal...

Section 52-380f. (Formerly Sec. 49-50). - Discharge of judgment lien from property not needed to secure judgment. - Any person interested, as a subsequent encumbrancer or otherwise, in...

Section 52-380g. - Release of judgment lien on satisfaction of judgment. - On satisfaction of a judgment, the judgment creditor shall release...

Section 52-380h. (Formerly Sec. 49-47). - Form of judgment lien foreclosure certificates. - Certificates of foreclosure of judgment liens shall be, as far...

Section 52-380i. (Formerly Sec. 49-48). - Foreclosure of lien when plaintiff holds mortgage. - Upon proceedings for the foreclosure of any judgment lien, when...

Section 52-381. - Liability of garnishee; scire facias. - If judgment is rendered in favor of the plaintiff in...

Section 52-382. - Levy on nonresident garnishee. - In an action by foreign attachment in which the garnishee...

Section 52-383. - Levy when garnishee has left the state. - When the garnishee in any action of foreign attachment has...

Section 52-384. - Scire facias against garnishee who has left state. - If, after demand made as provided in section 52-383, a...

Section 52-385. - Scire facias founded on justice judgment. - Section 52-385 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8129; 1959, P.A....

Section 52-386. - Stay of execution when debt is not payable. - When it appears on the hearing of any scire facias,...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 52 - Civil Actions

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 52 - Civil Actions