Title 52, Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 52-325c. Appeal. (a) Any order entered as provided in subsection (b) of section 52-325b shall be deemed a final judgment for the purpose of appeal. (b) No appeal shall be taken from such order except within seven days thereof. The effect of such order shall be automatically …

Sec. 52-325d. Motion for discharge of invalid notice of lis pendens. In any action in which (1) a notice of lis pendens was recorded which is not intended to affect real property, or (2) the recorded notice does not contain the information required by subsection (a) of section 52…

Sec. 52-325e. Duration of notice of lis pendens. Rerecording. (a) No notice of lis pendens recorded against any real property shall continue in force for a longer period than fifteen years after the date such notice was recorded unless within the five years prior to the expiratio…

Sec. 52-326. Discharge of lis pendens and invalid liens. The provisions of sections 52-322 and 52-324 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any lis pendens recorded according to the provisions of section 52-325 or any invalid lien sought to be discharged under section 49-51. (1949 Re…

Sec. 52-327. Duration of attachment lien on real estate. Discharge upon expiration. No attachment of real estate shall continue in force as a lien for a longer period than fifteen years after the date thereof unless within said period the action in which such attachment was made …

Sec. 52-328. Duration of attachment liens after judgment. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no personal estate which has been attached may be held to respond to the judgment obtained in the suit, either against the debtor or any other creditor, unless the …

Sec. 52-329. Process of foreign attachment. When the effects of the defendant in any proposed or pending civil action in which a judgment or decree for the payment of money may be rendered are concealed in the hands of his agent or trustee so that they cannot be found or attached…

Sec. 52-330. Citing garnishee to disclose. The plaintiff may insert in the writ a direction to the garnishee, except if he is described as an executor, administrator or trustee in insolvency, in which case he shall not be so cited in, to appear before the court to which the proce…

Sec. 52-331. Disclosure by garnishee to officer. The officer serving process upon any person or corporation named as garnishee shall, at the time of service, make inquiry as to the amount then owed by such garnishee to the defendant in such action; and, if such garnishee thereupo…

Sec. 52-332. Corporation as garnishee; disclosure; nonappearance. If any corporation made a garnishee and cited in to disclose was not indebted to, and had no effects of, the defendant in its possession when the complaint was served upon it, it need not appear before the court to…

Sec. 52-333. Liability of garnishee for not appearing. If any garnishee, cited in to disclose before a court held in a town other than that in which he resides, was not indebted to the defendant and had no effects of the defendant in his possession when the writ was served upon h…

Sec. 52-334. Disclosure by garnishee. The court may examine upon oath any garnishee cited in to disclose as to whether, at the time of the service of the foreign attachment, he had effects of the defendant in his hands or was indebted to him, and may hear any other proper evidenc…

Sec. 52-335. Service of garnishee process on corporation. When any corporation, engaged in transacting business in any other town than that in which its secretary or clerk resides, is named as agent, trustee or debtor of the defendant, in any action commenced by process of foreig…

Sec. 52-336. Service on disbursing agent or paymaster of garnishee. When any corporation having a disbursing agent or paymaster, with an office or place of business in this state, is named as garnishee, service may be made on it by leaving with such agent or paymaster, or at his …

Sec. 52-337. Service on bank or trust company as garnishee. Whenever a bank, savings bank, trust company or industrial bank is named as garnishee, process shall be served by leaving a copy thereof with any officer or teller at the garnishee's principal office during its regular h…

Sec. 52-337a. Garnishment of checking account. Section 52-337a is repealed. (1963, P.A. 580; P.A. 76-401, S. 6, 7.)

Sec. 52-338. Service on nonresident garnishee. When the garnishee does not reside in this state, but is engaged in the transaction of business therein by an agent or agents, process may be served on such garnishee by leaving a true and attested copy thereof with such agent or age…

Sec. 52-339. Service on partnership garnishees. When a partnership, the business of which is transacted by one or more of the partners exclusively, or by an agent or agents, is named as garnishee, service may be made upon such partnership by leaving a true and attested copy of th…

Sec. 52-340. Subrogation of factorizing creditor. In actions by foreign attachment, the plaintiff shall be entitled to all the security which his debtor had for the debt or property attached. (1949 Rev., S. 8085.) Equity will allow the creditor to maintain a bill for a disclosure…

Sec. 52-341. Attachment of debt evidenced by negotiable note. When a debt evidenced by a negotiable promissory note has been attached by process of foreign attachment and the defendant has had actual notice thereof, he shall not negotiate or transfer such note during the continua…

Sec. 52-342. Presentation of debt by attaching creditor to decedent's or insolvent estate. When any debt due or to become due any person from an estate of a deceased person in settlement as a solvent estate is attached, the attaching creditor may, within the time limited for pres…

Sec. 52-343. Death of garnishee pending attachment. If any executor, administrator or trustee, in whose hands any debt, legacy or distributive share has been so attached, dies or is removed pending the proceedings either on the original writ or on the scire facias, upon proper su…

Sec. 52-344. Levy of execution as a discharge of garnishee. The taking of any effects or debt by judgment of law out of the hands of an agent, trustee or debtor of the owner thereof, by process of foreign attachment, shall forever discharge such garnishee. (1949 Rev., S. 8089.) W…

Sec. 52-345. Judgment debt attached. Stay of execution. If any judgment debt is taken by foreign attachment, the issue of the execution on such judgment, or its levy, if already issued, shall be stayed during the continuance of the lien of such attachment; and the time during whi…

Sec. 52-346. Garnishments of mortgages. The plaintiff in any civil action in which garnishee process is served upon any person in any way obligated or liable under any mortgage or lien upon real estate, garnisheeing a debt or any part thereof secured by such mortgage or lien, sha…

Secs. 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. 8092–8095; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 185, 204; 196…

Sec. 52-350a. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter and section 49-51, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Conspicuous” means conspicuous as defined in section 42a-1-201. (2) “Consumer debt or obligation” means a debt or obligation incurred primarily for personal,…

Sec. 52-350b. Applicability. (a) Sections 49-51, 52-350a, 52-350c to 52-350f, inclusive, 52-351a, 52-351b, 52-352a, 52-352b, 52-353, 52-355a, 52-356a to 52-356d, inclusive, 52-361a, 52-361b, 52-380a, 52-380d to 52-380g, inclusive, and 52-400a to 52-400d, inclusive, as amended or …

Sec. 52-350c. Rules of court. Forms. The judges of the Superior Court may adopt any rules they deem necessary to implement the provisions of sections 49-51, 52-350a, 52-350c to 52-350f, inclusive, 52-351a, 52-351b, 52-352a, 52-352b, 52-353, 52-355a, 52-356a to 52-356d, inclusive,…

Sec. 52-350d. Jurisdiction of Superior Court. (a) For the purposes of postjudgment procedures, the Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over all parties of record in an action until satisfaction of the judgment or, if sooner, until the statute limiting execution has run, except…

Sec. 52-350e. Service of process. (a) Unless otherwise provided by section 52-351a, 52-351b, 52-356a, 52-356b or 52-361a, service of process concerning a postjudgment procedure, or concerning a determination of interest in property pursuant to section 52-356c, may be made (1) by …

Sec. 52-350f. Enforcement of money judgment. Costs, fees and interest. A money judgment may be enforced against any property of the judgment debtor unless the property is exempt from application to the satisfaction of the judgment under section 52-352a, 52-352b, 52-352d or 52-361…

Sec. 52-351. New judgment to include unsatisfied costs of execution. Any court issuing an execution on which the costs thereon are not wholly satisfied, upon written motion of the plaintiff and such notice to the judgment debtor as the court rendering the original judgment deems …

Sec. 52-351a. Notice of enforcement action to be given judgment debtor. When a lien is placed on any property or when any postjudgment paper, other than a wage execution or property execution levied against property of a natural person, is served on a third person, the judgment c…

Sec. 52-351b. Discovery by judgment creditor. (a) A judgment creditor may obtain discovery from the judgment debtor, or from any third person the judgment creditor reasonably believes, in good faith, may have assets of the judgment debtor, or from any financial institution to the…

Sec. 52-352. Property exempt from attachment and execution. Section 52-352 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8104; P.A. 74-64; P.A. 77-466, S. 4.)

Sec. 52-352a. Definitions for exempt property provisions. As used in this section and sections 52-352b and 52-353: (1) “Value” means fair market value of the exemptioner's equity or unencumbered interest in the property; (2) “Necessary” means reasonably required to meet the needs…

Sec. 52-352b. Exempt property. The following property of any natural person shall be exempt: (1) Necessary apparel, bedding, foodstuffs, household furniture and appliances; (2) Tools, books, instruments, farm animals and livestock feed, which are necessary to the exemptioner in t…

Sec. 52-352c. Additional exempt property. Section 52-352c is repealed. (P.A. 77-466, S. 3; P.A. 78-331, S. 26, 58; P.A. 83-581, S. 39, 40; P.A. 84-546, S. 127, 173.)

Sec. 52-352d. Exempt property of farm partnership. (a) As used in this section, “exempt” has the same meaning as provided in section 52-352a, and “farm partnership” means any partnership primarily engaged in the occupation of farming in which at least fifty per cent of the partne…

Sec. 52-353. Levy on and sale of personal property exempt to a certain amount. When an execution debtor owns any personal property which, if not exceeding a certain amount in value, is exempt from execution, and the officer levying the execution believes that its value exceeds th…

Secs. 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, 8114; 1955, S. 3205d; P.A. 81-410, S. 14; P.A. 83-581, S. 39, 40; P.A. 84-546, S. 127, 173.)

Sec. 52-355a. Judgment lien on personal property. (a) Except in the case of a consumer judgment, a judgment lien, securing the unpaid amount of any money judgment, including interest and costs, may be placed on any nonexempt personal property in which, by a filing in the office o…

Sec. 52-356. Levy on personal estate. Section 52-356 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8097; P.A. 81-410, S. 10; P.A. 83-581, S. 39, 40; P.A. 84-546, S. 127, 173.)

Sec. 52-356a. Execution against certain nonexempt personal property. Fees. (a) Procedure. Levying officer's responsibilities. (1) On application of a judgment creditor or a judgment creditor's attorney, stating that a judgment remains unsatisfied and the amount due thereon, and s…

Sec. 52-356b. Court order for transfer of specified property or evidence. (a) If a judgment is unsatisfied, the judgment creditor may apply to the court for an execution and an order in aid of the execution directing the judgment debtor, or any third person, to transfer to the le…