Title 52 — Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 52-407pp. Representation by lawyer. A party to an arbitration proceeding may be represented by a lawyer. (P.A. 18-94, S. 16.)

Sec. 52-407qq. Witnesses; subpoenas; depositions; discovery. (a) An arbitrator may issue a subpoena for the attendance of a witness and for the production of records and other evidence at any hearing and may administer oaths. A subpoena must be served in the manner for service of…

Sec. 52-407rr. Judicial enforcement of preaward ruling by arbitrator. If an arbitrator makes a preaward ruling in favor of a party to the arbitration proceeding, the party may request the arbitrator to incorporate the ruling into an award under section 52-407ss. A prevailing part…

Sec. 52-407ss. Record and notice of award. (a) An arbitrator shall make a record of an award. The record must be signed or otherwise authenticated by any arbitrator who concurs with the award. The arbitrator or the arbitration organization shall give notice of the award, includin…

Sec. 52-407tt. Modification or correction of award by arbitrator. (a) On motion to an arbitrator by a party to an arbitration proceeding, the arbitrator may modify or correct an award: (1) Upon a ground stated in subdivision (1) or (3) of subsection (a) of section 52-407xx; (2) B…

Sec. 52-407uu. Remedies, fees and expenses of arbitration proceeding. (a) An arbitrator may award punitive damages or other exemplary relief if such an award is authorized by law in a civil action involving the same claim and the evidence produced at the hearing justifies the awa…

Sec. 52-407vv. Court order confirming award. After a party to an arbitration proceeding receives notice of an award, the party may make a motion to the court for an order confirming the award at which time the court shall issue a confirming order unless the award is modified or c…

Sec. 52-407ww. Vacating of award by court. (a) Upon motion to the court by a party to an arbitration proceeding, the court shall vacate an award made in the arbitration proceeding if: (1) The award was procured by corruption, fraud or other undue means; (2) There was: (A) Evident…

Sec. 52-407xx. Grounds for modifying or correcting an award. (a) Upon motion made within ninety days after the movant receives notice of the award pursuant to section 52-407ss or within ninety days after the movant receives notice of a modified or corrected award pursuant to sect…

Sec. 52-407yy. Judgment on award. Litigation expenses. (a) Upon granting an order confirming an award, vacating an award without directing a rehearing, modifying an award or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment in conformity therewith. The judgment may be recorde…

Sec. 52-407zz. Jurisdiction. (a) A court of this state having jurisdiction over the controversy and the parties may enforce an agreement to arbitrate. (b) An agreement to arbitrate providing for arbitration in this state confers exclusive jurisdiction on the court to enter judgme…

Sec. 52-408. Agreements to arbitrate. An agreement in any written contract, or in a separate writing executed by the parties to any written contract, to settle by arbitration any controversy thereafter arising out of such contract, or out of the failure or refusal to perform the …

Sec. 52-409. Stay of proceedings in court. If any action for legal or equitable relief or other proceeding is brought by any party to a written agreement to arbitrate, the court in which the action or proceeding is pending, upon being satisfied that any issue involved in the acti…

Sec. 52-410. Application for court order to proceed with arbitration. (a) A party to a written agreement for arbitration claiming the neglect or refusal of another to proceed with an arbitration thereunder may make application to the superior court for the judicial district in wh…

Sec. 52-411. Appointment of arbitrator or umpire. (a) If, in a written agreement to arbitrate, a method of appointing an arbitrator or arbitrators or an umpire has been provided, the method shall be followed. (b) If no method is provided therein, or if a method is provided and an…

Sec. 52-412. Subpoenas and depositions. (a) Any arbitrator or umpire and any other persons qualified by law to issue subpoenas in civil actions shall have power to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and for the production of books, papers and other evidence at arbitr…

Sec. 52-413. Hearing; time and place; adjournment. The arbitrators to an arbitration matter shall appoint a time and place for the hearing and notify the parties thereof. Upon application of either party and for good cause shown, the arbitrators shall postpone the time of the hea…

Sec. 52-414. Additional arbitrator. Rehearing. Oath. (a) All the arbitrators to an arbitration matter shall meet and act together during the hearing. A majority may determine any question. (b) If any party fails to appear before the arbitrators or an umpire after reasonable notic…

Sec. 52-415. Arbitrators may ask advice of courts. At any time during an arbitration, upon request of all the parties to the arbitration, the arbitrators or an umpire shall make application to any designated court, or to any designated judge, for a decision on any question arisin…

Sec. 52-416. Time within which award shall be rendered. Notice. (a) If the time within which an award is rendered has not been fixed in the arbitration agreement, the arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire shall render the award within thirty days from the date the hearing or hearin…

Sec. 52-417. Application for order confirming award. At any time within one year after an award has been rendered and the parties to the arbitration notified thereof, any party to the arbitration may make application to the superior court for the judicial district in which one of…

Sec. 52-418. Vacating award. (a) Upon the application of any party to an arbitration, the superior court for the judicial district in which one of the parties resides or, in a controversy concerning land, for the judicial district in which the land is situated or, when the court …

Sec. 52-419. Modification or correction of award. (a) Upon the application of any party to an arbitration, the superior court for the judicial district in which one of the parties resides or, in a controversy concerning land, for the judicial district in which the land is situate…

Sec. 52-420. Motion to confirm, vacate or modify award. (a) Any application under section 52-417, 52-418 or 52-419 shall be heard in the manner provided by law for hearing written motions at a short calendar session, or otherwise as the court or judge may direct, in order to disp…

Sec. 52-421. Record to be filed with clerk of court. Effect and enforcement of judgment or decree. (a) Any party applying for an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award shall, at the time the order is filed with the clerk for the entry of judgment thereon, file the fol…

Sec. 52-422. Order pendente lite. At any time before an award is rendered pursuant to an arbitration under this chapter, the superior court for the judicial district in which one of the parties resides or, in a controversy concerning land, for the judicial district in which the l…

Sec. 52-423. Appeal. An appeal may be taken from an order confirming, vacating, modifying or correcting an award, or from a judgment or decree upon an award, as in ordinary civil actions. (1949 Rev., S. 8166.) Cited. 197 C. 26; 200 C. 91; Id., 376; 201 C. 50; 206 C. 113; 208 C. 3…

Sec. 52-424. Reference of pending actions to arbitration. When the parties to any action pending in court desire to refer it to arbitration, each may choose one arbitrator and the court may appoint a third; and the award of such arbitrators, returned to and accepted by the court,…

Sec. 52-425. Appointment of a committee in civil actions. (a) In any civil action pending in the Superior Court in which an issue of fact has been closed to the court, the court may, upon motion of any party to the record, appoint a committee of one, two or three disinterested pe…

Sec. 52-426. Compensation of committee and stenographer. When any civil action is pending in the Superior Court and has been ordered by the court to be tried before a committee appointed by the court, without a motion or written request for such committee, and no provision is mad…

Sec. 52-427. Auditors or committee may be appointed when court not in session. Any judge of the Superior Court may, when the court is not in session, in any action pending before the court in which a reference is proper, upon the written application of either party, with notice o…

Sec. 52-428. Auditors in actions involving matters of accounting. When in any action it is necessary, by reason of its being brought upon a bond with conditions, or of any special plea or claim of set-off, to settle any matter which might be the subject of an action for an accoun…

Sec. 52-429. Powers of auditors and committees over witnesses. Auditors and committees appointed by any court, while engaged in the trial of the cases which they are appointed to hear, shall have the same power and authority over witnesses as the appointing court and may commit a…

Sec. 52-430. Filling of auditor or committee vacancies when court not in session. If any auditor, committee or member of a committee, appointed by any court, dies or declines or is unable to act, at any time when the court is not in session, the parties, or their attorneys, may a…

Sec. 52-431. Recommittal of incomplete report. When a finding of facts made and returned to any court by an auditor or a committee, in the judgment of the court or of the Supreme Court, is incomplete or insufficient, the court may thereupon, unless objection is made by all the pa…

Sec. 52-432. Judge not to be auditor or committee. No judge whose salary is paid by the state may be appointed as an auditor or committee in any civil action. (1949 Rev., S. 8175; P.A. 82-160, S. 166.) History: P.A. 82-160 substituted “may” for “shall”.

Sec. 52-433. Auditor or committee appointed judge may finish case. Any auditor or committee who is appointed judge of any court shall complete his duties as such auditor or committee in the same manner and with the same effect as if he had not been so appointed. (1949 Rev., S. 81…

Sec. 52-434. State referees. (a) Appointment of retired judges and members of the bar. Cases referred. (1) Each judge of the Supreme Court, each judge of the Appellate Court, each judge of the Superior Court and each judge of the Court of Common Pleas who ceases or has ceased to …

Sec. 52-434a. Powers of referees. (a) In addition to the powers and jurisdiction granted to state referees under the provisions of section 52-434, a Chief Justice or judge of the Supreme Court, a judge of the Appellate Court, a judge of the Superior Court or a judge of the Court …

Sec. 52-434b. Referrals to senior judges; their powers and compensation. (a) In each case, matter or proceeding which may be referred to a state referee or a committee of three state referees, or to a committee of one, or to a committee of three, or to an auditor, the Chief Court…

Sec. 52-434c. Certain referees assigned to Appellate Court. Eligibility. Powers and jurisdiction. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction granted to state referees under sections 52-434 and 52-434a, a Chief Justice or a judge of the Supreme Court or Appellate Court, who has ce…

Sec. 52-434d. Special education administrative contested cases pilot program. Section 52-434d is repealed, effective October 1, 2014. (P.A. 00-204, S. 6, 13; P.A. 01-173, S. 47, 67; P.A. 14-207, S. 17.)

Sec. 52-435. Bastardy complaint by mother. Section 52-435 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8178, 8321; 1951, S. 3208d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 128; 639, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 602, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)

Sec. 52-435a. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Sec. 46b-160.

Secs. 52-435b and 52-435c. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Secs. 46b-165 and 46b-166, respectively.

Sec. 52-436. Continuance of case; evidence. Section 52-436 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8179; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)

Sec. 52-437. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Sec. 46b-167.

Sec. 52-438. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Sec. 46b-164.

Sec. 52-438a. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Sec. 46b-161.

Sec. 52-438b. Transferred to Chapter 815y, Sec. 46b-163.