Title 14, Title 14

Whenever a party or the Department of Health and Human Services, if it is subrogated to a party under Title 19‑A, chapter 65, subchapter II, article 3, complains in writing and under oath that the process, decree or order of court, which is not, except as provided in Title 19‑A, …

A person is not liable to any other person in a civil action for the cause of alienation of affections.

A married person may bring a civil action in that person's own name for loss of consortium of that person's spouse.

The parents of a minor child jointly may maintain an action for loss of the services or earnings of that child when that loss is caused by the negligent or wrongful act of another. If one parent refuses to sue, the other may sue alone. This section does not limit, amend, supersed…

If a minor who is between 7 and 17 years of age willfully or maliciously causes damage to property or injury to a person and the minor would have been liable for the damage or injury if the minor were an adult and the minor lives with that minor's parents or legal guardians, the …

This chapter may be known and cited as "the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act."

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 2019, c. 109, §1 (NEW).] 1. Foreign jurisdiction. "Foreign jurisdiction" means a state other than this State. 2. Foreign subpoena. "Foreign subpoena" means a subp…

The issuance of a subpoena is governed by this section. [PL 2019, c. 109, §1 (NEW).] 1. Request issuance. To request issuance of a subpoena under this section, a party must submit a foreign subpoena to the clerk of a District Court in the district or to the clerk of the Superior …

A subpoena issued by a clerk of court under section 403 must be served in compliance with the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 45.

The Maine Rules of Civil Procedure and the provisions of Title 16, sections 101, 102 and 251 apply to depositions and discovery carried out under this Act and subpoenas issued under section 403.

An application to the court for a protective order or to enforce, quash or modify a subpoena issued by a clerk of court under section 403 must comply with the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure and be submitted to the District Court in the district or to the Superior Court of the cou…

In applying and construing this Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

Notwithstanding Title 1, section 302, this Act applies to requests for discovery in cases pending on the effective date of this Act.

Personal and transitory actions, except process of foreign attachment and except as provided in this chapter, shall be brought, when the parties live in the State, in the county where any plaintiff or defendant lives; and when no plaintiff lives in the State, in the county where …

Actions on bonds given by sheriffs to the Treasurer of State shall be brought in the county for which such sheriff is commissioned.

Civil actions founded on judgment rendered by any court of record in the State may be brought in the county where it was rendered or in the county in which either party thereto or his executor or administrator resides at the time of bringing the action.

In all actions commenced in any court proper to try them jurisdiction shall be sustained if goods, estate, effects or credits of any defendant are found within the State and attached.

Local and transitory actions shall be commenced and tried as follows: When both parties are counties, in any county adjoining either; when a county is plaintiff, if the defendant lives therein, in an adjoining county; if he does not live therein, in the county in which he does li…

When a forfeiture is recoverable in a civil action, such action shall be brought in the county in which the offense was committed unless a different provision is made by statute. If on trial it does not appear that such offense was committed in the county where the action was bro…

An action in behalf of the State to enforce the collection of state taxes upon any corporation or to recover of any person or corporation moneys due the State, public funds or property belonging to the State, or the value thereof, may be brought in any county. On motion of the de…

A presiding Justice of the Superior Court may, in the interests of justice and to secure the speedy trial of an action, or for other good cause, transfer any civil action or proceeding from the Superior Court in one county to another county. The Chief Justice of the Superior Cour…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an action brought against a consumer arising from a consumer credit transaction or a rental-purchase agreement must be brought in accordance with Title 9‑A, section 5‑113, except that an action brought pursuant to Title 32, sec…

Except as otherwise provided in section 509, an action for replevin must be brought either in the division or county where a plaintiff or defendant resides, where the underlying transaction involving the personal property was made or where any of the personal property is located.

Clerks of judicial courts, judges and registers of the probate courts, judges and clerks of the District Court shall not sell or deliver any blank writs or precepts bearing the seal of said courts and the signature of said judges and registers to any person, except one who has be…

Writs of seizin or execution and all other processes appropriate to civil actions in which equitable relief is sought may be issued by the court to enforce its decrees.

An action is commenced when the summons and complaint are served or when the complaint is filed with the court, whichever occurs first.

When in an action pending, the loss or destruction of a writ, complaint or other process after service is proved by affidavit or otherwise, the court may allow a new one to be filed, corresponding thereto as nearly as may be, with the same effect as the one lost or destroyed.

Every officer, plaintiff or his attorney, having in his possession a writ on which an attachment has been made, shall make and deliver to the debtor or his attorney, if requested and the legal fee tendered, an attested copy thereof, and if he unreasonably refuses or neglects to d…

When the plaintiff, petitioner or complainant in any judicial proceeding is not an inhabitant of the State, every original summons, writ, petition or complaint shall, upon motion of an adverse party made within 20 days of service upon him, be indorsed by a sufficient inhabitant o…

In case of avoidance or inability of the plaintiff or petitioner, the indorser is liable, in a civil action brought within one year after the original judgment in the court in which it was rendered, to pay all costs recovered against the plaintiff. A return upon the execution by …

If, pending such action, petition or process, any such indorser or deposit becomes insufficient or such indorser removes from the State, the court may require a new and sufficient indorser or additional deposit, and by consent of the defendant the name of the original indorser ma…

When the name of a defendant is not known to the plaintiff, the summons may issue against him by an assumed name. If duly served, it shall not be dismissed for that reason but may be amended on such terms as the court orders.

Verification by the oath of a party for whose benefit the complaint sets forth that it is prosecuted is equivalent to such verification by the plaintiff.

No person shall send, deliver, mail or in any manner cause to be sent, delivered or mailed to any person, firm or corporation any paper or document simulating or intended to simulate a summons, complaint, writ or court process of any kind. Whoever violates this section commits a …

Service of process shall be as prescribed by rule of court.

Every sheriff and each of the sheriff's deputies and civil deputies, as defined in Title 30‑A, section 351, subsection 5, shall serve and execute, within the sheriff's county, all writs and precepts issued by lawful authority directed and committed to the sheriff, including those…

A constable may serve, execute and return upon any person in his town or in an adjoining plantation any writ of forcible entry and detainer, or any precept in a personal action, including those in which a town, plantation, parish, religious society or school district of which he …

1. Declaration of purpose. It is declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the public interest demands that the State provide its citizens with an effective means of redress against nonresident persons who, through certain significant minimal contacts with this Sta…

If any officer who has commenced the service or execution of a precept becomes disqualified, it may be completed by any other qualified officer with the same legal effect. If any officer aforesaid has made, in fact, any service, attachment or levy by virtue of any process placed …

Sheriffs and their deputies have the same authority and their deputies are under the same obligation to serve, execute and return all processes in their hands, when for any cause they cease to hold such office, as before. Official neglects or misdoings of a deputy after his princ…

All writs and precepts in which the sheriff of any county is a party may, unless served or executed by a constable, be served or executed by the sheriff of any county adjoining that of which he is sheriff.

Any writ or precept in which the deputy or civil deputy, as defined in Title 30‑A, section 351, subsection 5, of a sheriff is a party may be served by any other deputy or civil deputy of the same sheriff.

An officer of any county qualified to serve precepts in criminal cases in the county where he resides may serve any precept required by the laws providing for work-jails, whether such service is performed in whole or in part in one or more counties, and processes shall be issued …

In actions against sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables for breach of official duty where the principal defendant is out of the State, service may be made on such defendant by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to each of the sureties on his official bond 1…

The constables of the Town of Bristol may serve all precepts on Muscongus and Harbor Islands, in the County of Lincoln, the same as in their own town, until and unless said islands can legally elect constables.

This subchapter may be known and cited as "the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act."