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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 - Sections 52-186 to 52-188, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1,...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 - Section 52-190 is repealed, effective October 1, 2015.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...