Title 52, Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 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 special acts of this state, (2) regulations of any agency of this state, as defined in section 4-166, (3) or…

Sec. 52-163a. Determination of the law of jurisdictions outside this state. (a) In determining the law of any jurisdiction or governmental unit thereof outside this state, the court may consider any relevant material or source, including testimony, whether or not submitted by a p…

Sec. 52-164. Reports of judicial decisions of other states. The reports of the judicial decisions of other states and countries may be judicially noticed by the courts of this state as evidence of the common law of such states or countries and of the judicial construction of the …

Sec. 52-165. Records of corporations and public offices. The entries or records of all corporations and all public offices, where entries or records are made of their acts, votes and proceedings, by some officer appointed for that purpose, may be proved by a copy certified under …

Sec. 52-166. Orders of state officials. Any order made by any state official in the performance of his duties may be proved in any court by a copy of such order certified by the person having the legal custody of the same. (1949 Rev., S. 7889; P.A. 90-19, S. 3.) History: P.A. 90-…

Sec. 52-167. Corporation certificates; copies as prima facie evidence. A copy of any certificate filed by any corporation for record in the office of the Secretary of the State in compliance with the requirements of law shall, when attested by said secretary under his hand and th…

Sec. 52-168. U.S. revenue stamps on recorded documents. Certified copies of any memorandum made by a recording officer, showing the amount of the United States internal revenue stamps affixed to any document lodged for record in his office, and of their cancellation, shall be adm…

Sec. 52-169. Protests of bills and notes. Protests of inland bills of exchange and promissory notes, protested without this state, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. (1949 Rev., S. 7892.) If protest states that due notice was given to the endorser in a par…

Sec. 52-170. Records of directors of health and religious societies. The records of the proceedings of directors of health of towns or of any ecclesiastical society or religious congregation, or copies thereof, certified by its clerk, shall be admissible evidence of such proceedi…

Sec. 52-171. Sworn copies of files and records. The files, records, votes and proceedings of any court, community, corporation, society or public board, having a clerk, may, when he is absent or unable to perform the duties of his office, be proved in any court by copies examined…

Sec. 52-172. Declarations and memoranda of deceased persons. In actions by or against the representatives of deceased persons, and by or against the beneficiaries of any life or accident insurance policy insuring a person who is deceased at the time of the trial, the entries, mem…

Sec. 52-173. Entries admissible for those claiming title from decedent. Whenever the entries and written memoranda of a deceased person would be admissible in favor of his representatives, such entries and memoranda may be admitted in favor of any person claiming title under or f…

Sec. 52-174. Admissibility of records and reports of certain expert witnesses as business entries. (a) In all actions for the recovery of damages for personal injuries or death, (1) if a physician, dentist, chiropractor, naturopath, physical therapist, podiatrist, psychologist, s…

Sec. 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 and 816, any reports or bills related to pregnancy, childbirth or genetic or blood testing, sha…

Sec. 52-175. Entries and memoranda of mentally ill and incapable persons. (a) In the trial of any civil action in which any party is, at the time of the trial, mentally ill or unable to testify by reason of incurable sickness, failing mind, old age, infirmity or senility, the ent…

Sec. 52-175a. Negligence action, construction of acts of blind person. The failure of a blind person to use a service animal or to carry a cane or walking stick which is predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without red tip, shall not be construed as evidence of compa…

Sec. 52-176. Promise to pay barred debt to be in writing. In any action against the representatives of a deceased person, an acknowledgment or promise shall not be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract to take the case out of the statute of limitations, unless it is…

Sec. 52-177. Action on bond. Burden of proving value of principal's interest. Whenever, in any action brought upon a bond given in accordance with the provisions of section 52-308, the defendant sets up in his answer, or claims, that the interest of the principal in the bond in t…

Sec. 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) May compel any adverse party, any person for whose benefit the action or proceeding is instituted, prosecuted or defended, or any off…

Sec. 52-178a. Physical examination of plaintiff, when. In any action to recover damages for personal injuries, the court or judge may order the plaintiff to submit to a physical examination by one or more physicians or surgeons. No party may be compelled to undergo a physical exa…

Sec. 52-179. Seal and its equivalent. All instruments in writing executed by any person or corporation not having an official or corporate seal, purporting and intended to be a specialty or under seal, and not otherwise sealed than by the addition of the word “seal” or the letter…

Sec. 52-180. Admissibility of business entries and photographic copies. (a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, tran…

Sec. 52-180a. Admissibility of out-of-state hospital record or bill for treatment. Any and all parts of any hospital record or bill for treatment, or copy thereof, made by a hospital located without this state in connection with the treatment of a patient, if not otherwise inadmi…

Sec. 52-180b. Presumption against admission of evidence of prior criminal conviction of applicant or employee. There shall be a rebuttable presumption against admission of evidence of the prior criminal conviction of an applicant or employee in an action alleging that an employer…

Sec. 52-180c. Admissibility of evidence of sexual misconduct. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Sexual misconduct” means any act that is prohibited by section 53a-70b of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2019, section 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-70c, 53a-71, …

Sec. 52-181. Evidence of death or capture. An official written report or record, or certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer or…

Sec. 52-182. Presumption of family car or motorboat in operation by certain person. Proof that the operator of a motor vehicle or a motorboat, as defined in section 15-127, was the husband, wife, father, mother, son or daughter of the owner shall raise a presumption that such mot…

Sec. 52-183. Presumption of agency in motor vehicle operation. In any civil action brought against the owner of a motor vehicle to recover damages for the negligent or reckless operation of the motor vehicle, the operator, if he is other than the owner of the motor vehicle, shall…

Sec. 52-184a. Evidence obtained illegally by electronic device inadmissible. No evidence obtained illegally by the use of any electronic device is admissible in any court of this state. (1967, P.A. 871.) See Sec. 53a-187 et seq re tampering with private communications and eavesdr…

Sec. 52-184b. Failure to bill and advance payments inadmissible in malpractice cases. (a) For the purposes of this section, “health care provider” means any person, corporation, facility or institution licensed by this state to provide health care or professional services, or an …

Sec. 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 personal injury or wrongful death occurring on or after October 1, 1987, in which it is alleged that such …

Sec. 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 provider” means a provider, as defined in subsection (b) of section 20-7b, or an institution, a…

Sec. 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 care provider” means any health care institution licensed pursuant to the provisions of chap…