Title 52, Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 52-506. Receiver to give bond. All receivers, before assuming to act as such, shall file with the clerk of the court by which, or by a judge of which, they were appointed, a bond with such surety or sureties, and for such an amount as such court or judge may order and approv…

Sec. 52-507. Authority of receiver of corporation. (a) Receivers of a corporation, appointed by judicial authority, shall have the following rights and powers: (1) The right to the possession of all the corporation's books, papers and property; (2) the power in their own names, o…

Sec. 52-508. Receiver to file semiannual statements. Each such receiver shall, during the first week in April and in October in each year, sign, swear to and file with the clerk of the court by which he was appointed a full and detailed account of his actions as receiver for the …

Sec. 52-509. Appointment of receiver of partnership. (a) When any partnership is dissolved and the partners cannot agree upon the disposition of the partnership property and the settlement of the affairs of the partnership, any of them may apply to the superior court for the judi…

Sec. 52-510. Power of court over partnership property. The Superior Court, and when court is not in session any judge thereof, may make such orders relative to the management or closing up of the business of such partnership, and to the sale, division or other disposal of its rea…

Sec. 52-511. Receiver entitled to control of partnership property. Upon the appointment of a receiver for a partnership, he shall be entitled to the immediate possession and control of all its property, both real and personal, subject to the order of the Superior Court; but any s…

Sec. 52-512. Preference in receivership proceedings to claims for wages and deposits for consumer goods and services. (a) Every debt due to any laborer or mechanic for personal wages, from any corporation or partnership for which a receiver is appointed, for any labor performed f…

Sec. 52-513. Court may remove receiver at pleasure and fill vacancy. Receivers may be removed at any time, at the pleasure of the court by which they were appointed or, if such court is not in session, by a judge thereof; and, if any receiver is removed or declines to act or dies…

Sec. 52-514. Receivership; dissolution of attachment and levy of execution; costs. (a) The commencement of proceedings for the appointment of a receiver of a corporation or a partnership shall dissolve all attachments and all levies of executions not completed, made within the pr…

Sec. 52-515. When action of replevin maintainable. The action of replevin may be maintained to recover any goods or chattels in which the plaintiff has a general or special property interest with a right to immediate possession and which are wrongfully detained from him in any ma…

Sec. 52-516. Commencement of action of replevin. Prejudgment remedy. (a) An action of replevin shall be commenced by a writ of summons or attachment, describing the parties, the court to which it is returnable and the time and place of appearance. The writ shall be signed as in o…

Sec. 52-517. Replevin for property attached. When any property is held by an officer by virtue of a writ of attachment, any person other than the defendant having a general or special property interest therein with a right to the immediate possession thereof, and, when the proper…

Sec. 52-518. Replevin writ; affidavit as to value of goods and recognizance required. A writ of replevin shall not be issued: (1) Until the plaintiff, or some other credible person, subscribes an affidavit annexed to the writ stating the true and just value of the goods which it …

Sec. 52-519. Form of writ, affidavit and bond. The writ in an action of replevin, and the accompanying affidavit and recognizance, may be in the following form: To any proper officer: By authority of the state of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded, without delay, to cause to b…

Sec. 52-520. Determination of jurisdiction of court. Section 52-520 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8256; P.A. 76-436, S. 670, 681.)

Sec. 52-521. Replevin; service; new bond; voiding of process. (a) The officer who replevies property shall leave a true and attested copy of the process with the defendant, or at his usual place of abode, within three days after the replevy, and shall retain the property replevie…

Sec. 52-522. Pleadings. In an action of replevin, no cause of action, except of replevin or for a conversion of the goods described in the writ of replevin, may be stated. The pleadings in such action shall conform to the requirements of pleadings in civil actions so far as such …

Sec. 52-523. Complaint. If the complaint in an action of replevin contains a sufficient statement of the plaintiff's title and right of possession, a general allegation that the defendant wrongfully took the goods shall be sufficient without setting forth the facts showing that t…

Sec. 52-524. Defenses. All defenses to an action of replevin, other than those to the jurisdiction or in abatement, including avowry, alleging the defendant's right to take and hold the goods, and disclaimer, renouncing any interest in the goods, shall be made by answer or demurr…

Sec. 52-525. Statement of title. (a) An allegation by either party that the party pleading or a third person was, at the time when the action of replevin was commenced, or at the time the goods were replevied, the owner of the goods, or that they were then his property, is a suff…

Sec. 52-526. Judgment. No judgment for a return of the goods or for damages may be given to a defendant under a mere denial of the acts complained of, nor may a judgment of return be rendered in favor of a defendant who has either filed a disclaimer of interest in the goods or no…

Sec. 52-527. Transfer of cause to higher court. Section 52-527 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8263; P.A. 82-160, S. 259.)

Sec. 52-528. Procedure on withdrawal or nonsuit of plaintiff. If the plaintiff, in any action of replevin, fails to appear or withdraws or is nonsuited, before or after issue is joined, the defendant may file an answer in the nature of an avowry alleging his right to take and hol…

Sec. 52-529. Burden of proof. Evidence. Damages and costs. If the plaintiff's right to the possession of the property described in the writ of replevin is put in issue, without any disclaimer of title by the defendant, the plaintiff shall be bound to prove his right to possession…

Sec. 52-530. Damages for property not replevied. No costs against common carrier. If any of the property described in the writ of replevin is not replevied, but the plaintiff proves a general or special property interest therein with a right to its immediate possession, and that …

Sec. 52-531. Nonresident defendant; security for costs. In an action of replevin brought against any person not an inhabitant of this state, the court before which the action is pending may make such order as to security to be given by the defendant for costs that may be recovere…

Secs. 52-532 to 52-549. Transferred to Chapter 832, Secs. 47a-23 to 47a-42, inclusive.

Sec. 52-549a. Application for hearing before a commissioner of the Superior Court. (a) In any small claims action, the parties may, by agreement, submit such matter to a commissioner of the Superior Court chosen on a rotating basis by the clerk of the court to which such small cl…

Sec. 52-549aa. Setting aside award. Trial de novo. In addition to the absolute right to a trial de novo as provided under section 52-549z, the court in which such award is filed may set aside an award of arbitrators and order a trial de novo in the Superior Court upon proof that …

Sec. 52-549b. Where hearing may be held. Upon the filing of the statement provided for in section 52-549a, the clerk of the court shall notify the commissioner so appointed, who shall forthwith proceed to hear such controversy. Such hearing shall be heard in a courtroom unless no…

Sec. 52-549c. Hearing before commissioner. Procedure. Counsel. Withdrawal. Award and judgment. (a) A commissioner of the Superior Court appointed to hear a small claim shall not be bound by the rules regarding the admissibility of evidence, but all testimony shall be given under …

Sec. 52-549d. List of names of commissioners to conduct hearings. Compensation. (a) Any commissioner of the Superior Court, admitted to practice in this state for at least two years, who is able and willing to hear small claims, may submit his or her name to the clerk of the supe…

Sec. 52-549n. Certain contract actions referred to fact-finders. Rules of procedure. In accordance with the provisions of section 51-14, the judges of the Superior Court may make such rules as they deem necessary to provide a procedure in accordance with which the court, in its d…

Sec. 52-549o. Assignment of fact-finders. Hearings. The Chief Court Administrator may assign to each judicial district such number of fact-finders as he deems advisable. The Chief Court Administrator, or his designee, shall designate the holding of fact-finding hearings at such t…

Sec. 52-549p. Appointment of fact-finders. Compensation. Powers. (a) Upon publication of a notice in the Connecticut Law Journal, any commissioner of the Superior Court admitted to practice in this state for at least five years, who is willing and able to act as a fact-finder, ma…

Sec. 52-549q. Adjournment of meeting of arbitrators. Meeting of arbitrators. Absence of arbitrator. Section 52-549q is repealed. (P.A. 81-462, S. 10, 13; P.A. 82-441, S. 13, 21, 23.)

Sec. 52-549r. Rules of evidence to apply to fact-finding proceedings. Finding of fact. Award. In matters submitted to fact-finding a record shall be made of the proceedings and the rules of evidence in civil cases in this state shall apply. The fact-finders shall proceed to deter…

Sec. 52-549s. Consideration of finding by court. Objections. Authority of court re finding. (a) Not less than fourteen days after the filing of the finding, the clerk shall schedule the matter for consideration by the court. The parties may file objections to the acceptance of th…

Sec. 52-549t. Failure to appear. Payment of fees of fact-finder. Dismissal of action. (a) Where a party fails to appear at the hearing, the fact-finder shall nonetheless proceed with the hearing and shall make a finding of fact, as may be just and proper under the facts and circu…

Sec. 52-549u. Arbitration of certain civil actions. Rules of procedure. In accordance with the provisions of section 51-14, the judges of the Superior Court may make such rules as they deem necessary to provide a procedure in accordance with which the court, in its discretion, ma…

Sec. 52-549v. Assignment of arbitrators. Arbitration proceedings. The Chief Court Administrator may assign to each judicial district such number of arbitrators as he deems advisable. The Chief Court Administrator, or his designee, shall designate the holding of arbitration procee…

Sec. 52-549w. Appointment of arbitrators. Compensation. Powers. (a) Upon publication of a notice in the Connecticut Law Journal, any commissioner of the Superior Court admitted to practice in this state for at least five years, who has civil litigation experience and who is willi…

Sec. 52-549x. Decision of arbitrator. Within one hundred twenty days of the completion of the arbitration hearing the arbitrator shall file his decision with the clerk of the court together with sufficient copies thereof for the parties or their counsel. In his decision the arbit…

Sec. 52-549y. Failure to appear. Judgment. Motion to open or set aside judgment. Dismissal of action. Payment of arbitration fee. (a) Where a party fails to appear at the hearing, the arbitrator shall nonetheless proceed with the hearing and shall make a decision, as may be just …

Sec. 52-549z. Appeal. Trial de novo. (a) A decision of the arbitrator shall become a judgment of the court if no appeal from the arbitrator's decision by way of a demand for a trial de novo is filed in accordance with subsection (d) of this section. (b) A decision of the arbitrat…

Sec. 52-550. Statute of frauds; written agreement or memorandum. (a) No civil action may be maintained in the following cases unless the agreement, or a memorandum of the agreement, is made in writing and signed by the party, or the agent of the party, to be charged: (1) Upon any…