R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-12
§ 10-16-12. Manner of payment of judgment  Stay of execution.
Status: in_force

The court may order that the judgment shall be paid to the prevailing party at such time, or by such instalments, as it shall deem proper, and may stay the issue of execution and other supplementary process during compliance with the courts order. The stay shall at all times be subject to being modified or vacated by the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-1
§ 10-6-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-26 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-26
§ 10-13-26. Adjournment of hearings.
Status: in_force

Any judge of the district court, who shall be present at the time and place to which any citation in behalf of any poor prisoner, issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall be duly returned, may, in the absence of another magistrate, adjourn the hearing thereon to any other time or place, as he or she may think proper, with the same effect as if another judge were present.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-9
§ 10-16-9. Filing of defense  Counterclaim.
Status: in_force

Prior to or upon the date set for answering the defendant shall in writing file in court his or her answer or defense to the plaintiffs claim and may claim any counterclaim he or she may have against the plaintiffs claim, as he or she might plead the claim in an action begun by complaint and summons, and shall file a statement in writing of his or her counterclaim with the court, and the court shall determine which of the parties is entitled to decision against the other, and in what amount, and enter decision accordingly, but not exceeding the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). If the defendants counterclaim shall exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), and in the opinion of the court there shall be due the defendant thereon an amount greater than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), the court shall enter decision against the plaintiff as in case of nonsuit, and for the defendant for his or her costs only, and shall not further adjudicate upon the claim of the defendant, whose right to sue for the claim shall remain in the same manner as before the commencement of the action. The court may continue the hearing from time to time as may be necessary.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-19.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-19.1
§ 10-21-19.1. Interim report of temporary non-liquidating receiver.
Status: in_force

In addition to the any interim report required by § 10-21-19, unless the court orders otherwise, a temporary non-liquidating receiver shall file a monthly report that includes:

(1) Development and implementation of the operating plan; and

(2) The owners compliance with the operating plan and with this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-6
§ 10-10-6. Exemption of persons on military duty.
Status: in_force

No officer, noncommissioned officer, or private shall be arrested on civil process while going to, or coming from, or remaining at any place which he or she shall have been ordered to attend for the election of any military officer or the performance of any military duty.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-8
§ 10-4-8. Demands for and protection of property by assignee.
Status: in_force

The assignee shall demand, sue for, and receive from all persons all the estate in their possession conveyed by the deed of assignment; and the assignee may intervene in any action, suit, or proceeding relating to the property conveyed by the assignment and take upon himself or herself the prosecution or defense thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-7
§ 10-20-7. Remand for administrative or licensing proceedings.
Status: in_force

(a) If administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings are required to determine the legality of the defendants conduct, the court shall remand the parties to such proceedings. If administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings are available to determine the legality of the defendants conduct, the court may remand the parties to such proceedings. In so remanding the parties the court may grant temporary equitable relief where appropriate as set forth in § 10-20-6. In so remanding the parties the court shall retain jurisdiction of the cause pending completion thereof.

(b) Upon completion of the proceedings, the court shall adjudicate the impact of the defendants conduct, program or product on the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state in accordance with §§ 10-20-2  10-20-6. In such adjudication, the court may order that additional evidence be taken to the extent necessary.

(c) Where, as to any administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings referred to in subsection (a), judicial review thereof is available, notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the court originally taking jurisdiction shall maintain jurisdiction for purposes of judicial review.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be applicable to any action maintained under § 10-20-9 or to any appropriate administrative proceeding required thereunder.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-19
§ 10-13-19. Application for oath after judgment and before commitment.
Status: in_force

Every defendant in any execution, who would, if committed to a correctional institution thereon, and every person against whom final judgment has been rendered in any civil action, who would, if committed to a correctional institution on execution to be issued thereon, be entitled to be admitted to take the oath as provided in this chapter, may apply in the manner as provided in this chapter, for a citation to his or her creditor to show cause why he or she should not be admitted to take the debtors oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-25 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-25
§ 10-13-25. Party deemed creditor  Effect of executions subsequent to oath.
Status: in_force

The person to whom the debt appears, by the process, to belong at the time complaint is made, shall be deemed the creditor within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter. Neither the commitment of the prisoner, nor his or her discharge, shall be a satisfaction of the debt for which he or she was committed. If committed on execution, the plaintiff may take out another execution, which shall not, however, run against the body of the defendant. If suit is brought on the judgment, execution in the suit shall not run against the body of the defendant, nor shall the defendant be held to bail on the writ in such case. If the defendant is committed on mesne process, when he or she receives a certificate as provided in § 10-13-23, if that fact is shown by plea to the court before which the action is pending, then execution shall not issue against the body of the defendant, but in all such cases execution shall issue against the goods and chattels and real estate of the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-5
§ 10-11-5. Bail in Providence county at any time before judgment.
Status: in_force

Every person committed to a correctional institution in the county of Providence, on any writ or process in any civil action or by surrender of former bail in the same action, may be let to bail, or to new bail as the case may be, by the warden of the institution or by the officer who served the writ or process, at any time before final judgment shall be rendered on the writ on which the arrest was made, upon his or her giving sufficient surety for his or her appearance at the court to which such writ is returnable, and to abide the final judgment which shall be rendered thereon.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-13
§ 10-10-13. Discharge of prisoner on default in board payments.
Status: in_force

In case of default made in payment of the prisoners board, as required in § 10-10-12, the warden shall discharge such prisoner from the institution, stating in his or her formal discharge on the records of the institution the reason for the discharge.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-2
§ 10-7-2. Persons who may bring actions  Limitation of actions  Minimum recovery period.
Status: in_force

(a) Every action under this chapter, other than one brought under § 10-7-1.2, shall be brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator of the deceased person, whether appointed or qualified within or without the state, and of the amount recovered in every action under this chapter one-half (Â½) shall go to the husband or widow, and one-half (Â½) shall go to the children of the deceased, and if there are no children, the whole shall go to the husband or widow, and, if there is no husband or widow, to the next of kin, in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate; except that no person who is adjudged to be in willful contempt of being in excess of six (6) months in arrears of an order to pay child support for the deceased individual shall be allowed recovery pursuant to this chapter and a person so adjudged shall be deemed to have predeceased the child for the purpose of determining distribution under the intestacy statute.

(b) Every action brought under § 10-7-1.2 shall be brought by and in the name of the person or persons sustaining the loss of society, companionship and/or consortium and the amount recovered shall go to the person or persons who sustained the loss.

(c) Except as otherwise provided, every action brought pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within three (3) years after the death of the person. With respect to any death caused by any wrongful act, neglect, or default that is not known at the time of death, the action shall be commenced within three (3) years of the time that the wrongful act, neglect, or default is discovered or, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, should have been discovered. Whenever any person or corporation is found liable under §§ 10-7-1  10-7-4 the person or corporation shall be liable in damages in the sum of not less than three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-20
§ 10-3-20. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, the unconstitutionality or invalidity shall in no way affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given reasonable effect without the part so declared unconstitutional or invalid.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-7
§ 10-7-7. Pain and suffering recoverable  Limitation of action.
Status: in_force

In an action under § 10-7-5, recovery may be had for pain and suffering. Except as otherwise provided, every action under § 10-7-5 shall be commenced within three (3) years after the death of the person. With respect to any death caused by any wrongful act, neglect or default which is not known at the time of death, the action shall be commenced within three (3) years of the time that the wrongful act, neglect or default is discovered or, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, should have been discovered.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-33 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-33
§ 10-5-33. Inventory included in return of writ.
Status: in_force

If the defendant in the writ shall not, within the forty-eight (48) hours as provided in § 10-5-13, either give a bond as provided in § 10-5-13 or a bond for the value of the goods and chattels attached, in the manner by law provided, the officer shall make an inventory of the goods and chattels by him or her attached upon the writ, and return the inventory as a part of his or her doings in his or her return upon the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-18
§ 10-13-18. Effect of execution after debtors oath.
Status: in_force

If the debtors oath be administered, the execution which may be issued against the defendant in the action shall run against the goods and chattels or real estate of the defendant and not against his or her body.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-11
§ 10-4-11. Record of proceedings.
Status: in_force

The proceedings in all cases under this chapter shall be deemed matters of record; but the proceedings shall not be required to be recorded at large, but shall be filed and numbered in the office of the clerk of the superior court, and a docket only, or short memorandum thereof, shall be kept by the clerk of the supreme court, in books provided for that purpose.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-18
§ 10-18-18. Subpoenas  Costs.
Status: in_force

The court may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses at hearings held under this chapter. Any costs in connection with such hearings may be assessed against any of the parties in such manner as the court may deem just.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-10
§ 10-4-10. Dividends to creditors  Assignees report  Discharge of surety on bond.
Status: in_force

No assignee under this chapter at common law for the benefit of creditors shall, except by consent in writing of all the creditors of the assignor, pay any dividend until the expiration of the period of four (4) months from the making of the assignment. In case no petition in bankruptcy or insolvency has been filed within the four (4) month period, the assignee shall complete the administration of the assigned estate as soon as may be, and upon the payment of final dividend shall make itemized sworn report in writing to the superior court of all his or her proceedings under his or her trust; and the court, after at least ten (10) days notice by the assignee by mail postpaid, directed to the creditors of the assignor at the respective addresses as they appear in the schedule made by the assignor and filed with the assignee, of the time and place for hearing upon the assignees report, shall examine the assignees report and hear any parties interested, and upon the expiration of thirty (30) days after the approval of the assignees report, or upon a decision approving the assignees report by the supreme court upon appeal, or upon certification by the superior court as provided in this chapter, the surety upon any bond of the assignee shall be thereupon discharged.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-12
§ 10-11-12. Death of principal discharging bail.
Status: in_force

The death of the principal before the return day of the execution against him or her shall discharge the bail.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-6
§ 10-5-6. Writ in tort action against nonresident.
Status: in_force

At the commencement of a civil action sounding in tort against a nonresident having property within the state, a writ of attachment may be issued from the superior court or any district court wherever the plaintiff in the action, his or her agent or attorney, shall make affidavit, to be endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, that the defendant is a nonresident, and that the plaintiff has a just cause of action against the defendant, upon which the plaintiff expects to recover a sum sufficient to give jurisdiction to the court to which the writ is returnable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-2
§ 10-6-2. Joint tortfeasors defined.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term joint tortfeasors means two (2) or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort for the same injury to person or property, whether or not judgment has been recovered against all or some of them; provided, however, that a master and servant or principal and agent shall be considered a single tortfeasor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-16
§ 10-13-16. Service of citation.
Status: in_force

The citation shall be served by any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, or constable, at least four (4) days before the time therein appointed for taking the oath, by reading the citation to the plaintiff or by leaving an attested copy thereof at his or her last and usual place of abode in this state, with some person living there, and the citation shall be returned to the court in which the action is pending. If the plaintiff does not reside in this state, service of the citation may be made in like manner upon the agent or attorney of record of the plaintiff in this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-4
§ 10-11-4. Bail at any time before judgment  Counties other than Providence.
Status: in_force

Every person committed to a correctional institution in any county, except the county of Providence, by virtue of an arrest on any writ or process in any civil action, or by surrender of former bail in the same action, shall be let to bail or to new bail, as the case may be, in manner before provided, at any time before the rendering of final judgment on the original writ on which the arrest was made.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-10
§ 10-1-10. Proceedings and punishment for contempt.
Status: in_force

In case any person fails to comply with any order of the court or is otherwise in contempt of court under the provisions of this chapter, the court may try and punish the offender. Contempt proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court a complaint under oath, setting forth the facts, and the court shall thereupon cite the offender to appear and answer to the complaint. Any person found guilty of contempt of court under the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and by imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions for not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-4
§ 10-9-4. Issuance of writ  Forms.
Status: in_force

(a) The court or justice to whom the complaint shall be made shall, without delay, award and issue a writ of habeas corpus; if against any sheriff or deputy sheriff of this state, or against the warden of any correctional institution in this state, or against any marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, it shall be substantially in the following form:

(b) And if not against an officer as described in subsection (a), it shall be substantially in the following form:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-4
§ 10-10-4. Exemption of females from arrest on contract.
Status: in_force

No female shall be arrested on original writ in any action founded on contract.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-8
§ 10-17-8. Suits against separate trustees.
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall appear that several persons, partnerships, or corporations have property of the defendant as trustees, the plaintiff may sue each separately and recover the amount in his or her hands, until the plaintiff shall receive full payment of his or her judgment or decree against the original defendant, with interest and costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-9
§ 10-9-9. Signature and oath to return or statement.
Status: in_force

The return or statement shall be signed by the person making it, and it shall also be sworn to by him or her, unless he or she be a sworn public officer and shall make the return in his or her official capacity.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-14-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-14 / Section 10-14-3
§ 10-14-3. Enforcement of judgments  Order of new elections.
Status: in_force

In all proceedings under this chapter, the court shall enforce its judgment by appropriate process; and whenever it shall find that no election was made, it may order a new election in all cases where new elections are required by law to be held upon failure to elect in the first instance.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-21
§ 10-9-21. Remand to custody.
Status: in_force

If the party is lawfully imprisoned or restrained and is not entitled to be enlarged on giving bail, he or she shall be remanded to the person from whose custody he or she was taken or to such other person or officer as is by law authorized to detain him or her.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-5
§ 10-1-5. Evidence of reputation  Conviction of offenses against decency.
Status: in_force

In any hearing in proceedings under this chapter, evidence of the general reputation of the place, or the conviction, whether by trial or plea, including a plea of nolo, of any person of the violation of statutes against prostitution, lewdness, or assignation committed in any such place shall be admissible for the purposes of proving the existence of the nuisance.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-14
§ 10-5-14. Reduction of damages before bond.
Status: in_force

If the defendant in the writ shall deem the damages laid in the writ excessive, he or she may, before giving bond under the provisions of this chapter, complain in writing to any justice of the court to which the writ is returnable, requesting their reduction; and the justice may, after due notice to the plaintiff in the writ, or to his or her attorney, and upon cause shown, reduce the damages, and the amount so fixed shall be the penal sum in the bond.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-17
§ 10-13-17. Examination of defendant and administration of oath.
Status: in_force

If it shall appear to the court in which the action is pending that notice has been given as provided in § 10-13-16, the court shall examine the defendant on his or her oath concerning his or her estate and effects and the disposal thereof and may also receive any other evidence offered by the defendant or by the plaintiff, and upon the examination the court may, in its discretion, administer to the defendant the oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-4
§ 10-7-4. Cause surviving death of person liable.
Status: in_force

Any cause of action arising under §§ 10-7-1  10-7-4 and any action authorized by this chapter shall survive the death of any person liable for damages under this chapter, and may be originally brought against his or her executor or administrator or, if brought against the liable person in his or her lifetime, may in the event of his or her death be defended by his or her executor or administrator.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-24 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-24
§ 10-3-24. Material breach of agreement  Remedies.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) In an employment or consumer arbitration that requires, either expressly or through application of state or federal law or the rules of the arbitration provider, that the drafting party pay certain fees and costs during the pendency of an arbitration proceeding, if the fees or costs required to continue the arbitration proceeding are not paid within thirty (30) days after the due date, the drafting party is in material breach of the arbitration agreement, is in default of the arbitration, and waives its right to compel the employee or consumer to proceed with that arbitration as a result of the material breach.

(2) The arbitration provider shall provide an invoice for any fees and costs required for the arbitration proceeding to continue to all of the parties to the arbitration. The invoice shall be provided in its entirety, shall state the full amount owed and the date that payment is due, and shall be sent to all parties by the same means on the same day. To avoid delay, absent an express provision in the arbitration agreement stating the number of days in which the parties to the arbitration must pay any required fees or costs, the arbitration provider shall issue all invoices to the parties as due upon receipt. Any extension of time for the due date shall be agreed upon by all parties.

(b) If the drafting party materially breaches the arbitration agreement and is in default under subsection (a) of this section, the employee or consumer may unilaterally elect to do any of the following:

(1) Withdraw the claim from arbitration and proceed in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. If the employee or consumer withdraws the claim from arbitration and proceeds with an action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the statute of limitations, with regard to all claims brought or that relate back to any claim brought in arbitration, shall be tolled as of the date of the first filing of a claim in any court, arbitration forum, or other dispute resolution forum;

(2) Continue the arbitration proceeding, if the arbitration provider agrees to continue administering the proceeding, notwithstanding the drafting partys failure to pay fees or costs. The neutral arbitrator or arbitration provider may institute a collection action at the conclusion of the arbitration proceeding against the drafting party that is in default of the arbitration for payment of all fees associated with the employment or consumer arbitration proceeding, including the cost of administering any proceedings after the default;

(3) Petition the court for an order compelling the drafting party to pay all arbitration fees that the drafting party is obligated to pay under the arbitration agreement or the rules of the arbitration provider; or

(4) Pay the drafting partys fees and proceed with the arbitration proceeding. As part of the award, the employee or consumer shall recover all arbitration fees paid on behalf of the drafting party without regard to any findings on the merits in the underlying arbitration.

(c) If the employee or consumer withdraws the claim from arbitration and proceeds in a court of appropriate jurisdiction pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section, both of the following apply:

(1) The employee or consumer may bring a motion, or a separate action, to recover all attorneys fees and all costs associated with the abandoned arbitration proceeding. The recovery of arbitration fees, interest, and related attorneys fees shall be without regard to any findings on the merits in the underlying action or arbitration; and

(2) The court shall impose sanctions on the drafting party in accordance with § 10-3-25.

(d) If the employee or consumer continues in arbitration pursuant to subsections (b)(2) through (4) of this section, inclusive, the arbitrator shall impose appropriate sanctions on the drafting party, including monetary sanctions, issue sanctions, evidence sanctions, or terminating sanctions.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-29 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-29
§ 10-13-29. Costs paid by debtor.
Status: in_force

The cost of the service of citation and the writ of habeas corpus issued under the provisions of §§ 10-13-27 and 10-13-28 shall be paid by the petitioner for relief hereunder.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-16
§ 10-9-16. Notice to attorney general or complainant in criminal cases.
Status: in_force

Whenever it appears from the return of the writ, or otherwise, that the party is imprisoned on any criminal accusation, he or she shall not be discharged until sufficient notice shall have been given to the attorney general, or to the complainant in the matter, that he or she may appear and object to the discharge, if he or she think fit, which notice shall be given by the party imprisoned, in the manner prescribed by the court, or, in default thereof, he or she shall be remanded to the custody of the person against whom the writ of habeas corpus issued.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-3
§ 10-17-3. Oath to account  Certified copy.
Status: in_force

The disclosure made by virtue of § 10-17-2 shall be sworn to before any person authorized to administer oaths and shall be filed with the clerk of the court to which the writ shall be returnable, and if the name and address of plaintiffs attorney appears on the writ, a copy of the disclosure shall be mailed to the attorney at that address. The party filing the disclosure shall be entitled, on tendering a copy thereof and a fee of twenty-five cents ($.25) to the clerk, to have the copy certified by the clerk with whom the original is filed, and a certificate indorsed on such copy of the fact and date of filing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-3
§ 10-18-3. Filing of petition.
Status: in_force

(a) Any individual debtor whose income from all sources is not greater than the maximum wage earner income, as defined in subsection (b), and who is unable to pay his or her current debts as they mature but is able to make regular future payments on account sufficient to amortize the debts over a period of not more than five (5) years, may file a petition for receivership under this section with the clerk of the superior court in the county of his or her residence.

(b) The maximum wage earner income as used in subsection (a) is hereby defined to mean the greater of the following:

(1) Twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum, or

(2) An amount which, considering the fluctuations in the general price level, is equivalent to twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum in calendar year 1968.

(c) Changes in the price level shall be computed by the state controller using the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor. The foregoing computation shall be made annually, or more frequently at the discretion of the state controller.

(d) The petition shall be under oath and shall set forth the following:

(1) That the debtor is unable to meet his or her current debts as they mature;

(2) The names and addresses of his or her employer or employers, the income received from each, the periods for which received and when payable;

(3) Whether the petitioner is married, the name, age, and relationship of each person depending upon him or her for support and the approximate amount required for the petitioners and his or her dependents support;

(4) A list of all his or her creditors, with the names and addresses of and the amount owing to each, the nature of the claim, whether the indebtedness is secured or unsecured, the nature of the security, if any, and whether any listed claim is disputed, together with the amount claimed by the creditor and the amount claimed by the debtor;

(5) A description of all actions, suits or proceedings which are, to the best of his or her knowledge, in effect against him or her.

(e) Upon filing the petition, the debtor shall pay to the clerk of the court the sum of five dollars ($5.00) as a filing fee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-19
§ 10-17-19. Intervention by other claimant of estate.
Status: in_force

Whenever the personal estate of any defendant is attached on trustee process, any person claiming the personal estate, under an assignment or otherwise, may on his or her own motion become a party to the action or suit so far as respects the title to the personal estate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-22
§ 10-21-22. Removal of receiver  Replacement  Termination of receivership.
Status: in_force

(a) The court may remove a receiver for cause.

(b) The court shall replace a receiver that dies, resigns, or is removed.

(c) If the court finds that a receiver that resigns or is removed, or the representative of a receiver that is deceased, has accounted fully for and turned over to the successor receiver all receivership property and has filed a report of all receipts and disbursements during the service of the replaced receiver, the replaced receiver is discharged.

(d) The court may discharge a receiver and terminate the courts administration of the receivership property if the court finds that appointment of the receiver was improvident or that the circumstances no longer warrant continuation of the receivership. If the court finds that the appointment was sought wrongfully or in bad faith, the court may assess against the person that sought the appointment:

(1) The fees and expenses of the receivership, including reasonable attorneys fees and costs; and

(2) Actual damages caused by the appointment, including reasonable attorneys fees and costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-4
§ 10-12-4. Entry into places within yard.
Status: in_force

Any person confined in any correctional institution who shall give bond as provided in § 10-12-2 may go into any building or place within the exterior limits of the yard, complying with the bond and conforming to law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-10
§ 10-6-10. Uniformity of construction.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-9
§ 10-10-9. Privileges allowed person committed in absence of memorandum.
Status: in_force

If no memorandum as described in § 10-10-8 is made by the clerk on any execution, or if the officer shall not note the cause of action as provided in § 10-10-8 in his or her commitment, the warden of the adult correctional institutions shall be held harmless if he or she permits the person committed to have the liberty of the jail yard, or discharge him or her, on his or her producing a certificate of having taken the oath prescribed by law for poor debtors.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-20
§ 10-13-20. Service of citation.
Status: in_force

The citation as described in § 10-13-19 shall be served in the same manner as is provided in § 10-13-16.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-12
§ 10-5-12. Custody of attached goods.
Status: in_force

The officer shall keep the goods and chattels so attached in his or her custody, as security to satisfy the judgment or decree as the plaintiff may obtain, until by due process of law either he or she shall sell the goods and chattels or they shall be withdrawn from his or her custody.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-11
§ 10-21-11. Collection and turnover of receivership property.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless the court orders otherwise, on demand by a receiver:

(1) A person that owes a debt that is receivership property and is matured or payable on demand or on order shall pay the debt to or on the order of the receiver, except to the extent the debt is subject to setoff or recoupment; and

(2) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a person that has possession, custody, or control of receivership property shall turn the property over to the receiver.

(b) A person that has notice of the appointment of a receiver and owes a debt that is receivership property may not satisfy the debt by payment to the owner.

(c) If a creditor has possession, custody, or control of receivership property and the validity, perfection, or priority of the creditors lien on the property depends on the creditors possession, custody, or control, the creditor may retain possession, custody, or control until the court orders adequate protection of the creditors lien.

(d) Unless a bona fide dispute exists about a receivers right to possession, custody, or control of receivership property, the court may sanction as civil contempt a persons failure to turn the property over when required by this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-1
§ 10-4-1. Residence of assignee  Bond.
Status: in_force

Every assignee at common law for the benefit of creditors shall be a resident of the state and shall give bond to the clerk of the superior court, with some surety company authorized to do business in this state, as surety, in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000), conditioned on the faithful performance of his or her duties. All such bonds shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court and may be sued upon in the proper court at the relation of any party interested or aggrieved, upon surety for costs being given to the court in which the suit is brought. Joint assignees may give joint or several bonds.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-1
§ 10-17-1. Trustee defined.
Status: in_force

The word trustee, wherever occurring in this chapter, shall be deemed to include the words attorney, agent, factor, or debtor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-15
§ 10-5-15. Filing of bond and delivery of property to defendant.
Status: in_force

Upon accepting a bond given to satisfy a judgment or decree as required in this chapter, the officer shall lodge the bond with the clerk of the court to which the writ in the action shall be returnable and shall immediately surrender the goods and chattels attached by him or her to the person whose interest in the goods and chattel shall have been attached, or from whose possession the goods and chattel were taken, by virtue of the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-44 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-44
§ 10-5-44. Dissolution of attachment of real property for want of action.
Status: in_force

The lien of any attachment of real property filed on or before May 5, 1955, in which a decision has not been entered, shall be dissolved whenever the cause shall hereafter remain without action for a period of six (6) years, as shown by the court docket. The lien of any attachment of real property filed after May 5, 1955, in which a decision shall not have been entered, shall be dissolved whenever the cause shall remain without action for a period of six (6) years, as shown by the court docket. A certificate of the clerk of the court in which a cause is pending, to the effect that the cause has remained without action for a period of six (6) years, shall be entitled to be recorded, upon payment of the fee for the recording, in the records of land evidence wherever any such attachment may have been filed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-12
§ 10-17-12. Discharge of trustee by surrender or delivery.
Status: in_force

The surrender or delivery shall be a good discharge to the trustee for the articles or money, as to both plaintiff and defendant in the action.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-1.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-1.1
§ 10-7-1.1. Pecuniary damages  How determined.
Status: in_force

Pecuniary damages to the beneficiaries described under § 10-7-2 and recoverable by the beneficiaries shall be ascertained as follows:

(1) Determine the gross amount of the decedents prospective income or earnings over the remainder of his or her life expectancy, including all estimated income he or she would probably have earned by his or her own exertions, both physical and mental. Pecuniary damages shall include the value of homemaker services lost as a result of the death of a homemaker. The fair value of homemaker services shall not be limited to moneys actually expended to replace the services usually provided by the homemaker. In such a suit, the value of homemaker services may be shown by expert testimony, but expert testimony is not required.

(2) Deduct from the amount determined in subdivision (1) the estimated personal expenses that the decedent would probably have incurred for himself or herself, exclusive of any of his dependents, over the course of his or her life expectancy.

(3) Reduce the remainder thus ascertained to its present value as of the date of the award. In determining the award, evidence shall be admissible concerning economic trends, including but not limited to projected purchasing power of money, inflation, and projected increase or decrease in the costs of living.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-16
§ 10-3-16. Judgment on award.
Status: in_force

Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment shall be entered in conformity with the award in the court within thirty (30) days, unless an appeal is taken as provided in this chapter, in which last case the order of the superior court shall pursue the mandate of the supreme court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-6
§ 10-4-6. Effect of assignment on liens.
Status: in_force

Every assignment at common law for the benefit of creditors shall be effectual to dissolve any attachment, levy, or lien placed upon the property of the assignor not more than four (4) months prior to the making of the assignment, and the costs in full of the attachment, levy, or lien shall constitute a preferred claim against the assigned estate as part of the costs of administering the trust. The property affected by the attachment, levy, or lien shall be deemed wholly discharged and released from the attachment, levy, or lien and shall pass to the assignee as part of the assigned estate, and the superior court may order such conveyance as may be necessary to carry the purposes of this section into effect; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall have the effect to destroy or impair any title obtained by the attachment, levy, or lien by a bona fide purchaser for value, who shall have acquired the attachment, levy, or lien without notice or reasonable cause of inquiry, or to dissolve, vacate, destroy or impair any lien which exists at common law or any lien for which provision is made in chapter 9 of title 6A, chapter 3 of title 9, chapters 28, 29, 30, 34, or 35 of title 34, or chapter 15 of title 39.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-20
§ 10-21-20. Notice of appointment  Claim against receivership  Distribution to creditors.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f) of this section, a receiver shall give notice of appointment of the receiver to creditors of the owner by:

(1) Deposit for delivery through first-class mail or other commercially reasonable delivery method to the last known address of each creditor; and

(2) Publication as directed by the court.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f) of this section, the notice required by subsection (a) of this section must specify the date by which each creditor holding a claim against the owner which arose before appointment of the receiver must submit the claim to the receiver. The date specified must be at least four (4) months after the later of notice under subsection (a)(1) of this section or last publication under subsection (a)(2) of this section. The court may extend the period for submitting the claim. Unless the court orders otherwise, a claim that is not submitted timely is not entitled to a distribution from the receivership.

(c) A claim submitted by a creditor under this section must:

(1) State the name and address of the creditor;

(2) State the amount and basis of the claim;

(3) Identify any property securing the claim;

(4) Be signed by the creditor under penalty of perjury; and

(5) Include a copy of any record on which the claim is based.

(d) An assignment by a creditor of a claim against the owner is effective against the receiver only if the assignee gives timely notice of the assignment to the receiver in a signed record.

(e) At any time before entry of an order approving a receivers final report, the receiver may file with the court an objection to a claim of a creditor, stating the basis for the objection. The court shall allow or disallow the claim according to law of this state other than this chapter.

(f) If the court concludes that receivership property is likely to be insufficient to satisfy claims of each creditor holding a perfected lien on the property, the court may order that:

(1) The receiver need not give notice under subsection (a) of this section of the appointment to all creditors of the owner, but only such creditors as the court directs; and

(2) Unsecured creditors need not submit claims under this section.

(g) Subject to § 10-21-21:

(1) A distribution of receivership property to a creditor holding a perfected lien on the property must be made in accordance with the creditors priority under law of this state other than this chapter; and

(2) A distribution of receivership property to a creditor with an allowed unsecured claim must be made as the court directs according to law of this state other than this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-28 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-28
§ 10-13-28. Examination of tort debtor  Assignment of property  Administration of oath.
Status: in_force

Upon the receipt of any petition of any poor tort debtor under the provisions of § 10-13-27, the justice to whom the petition shall be addressed shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition, and shall issue a citation, directed to the committing creditor or to his or her attorney of record in the suit, or if the committing creditor be deceased, to the legal representative of the deceased creditor, which citation shall be served upon one of the persons to whom it is directed at least six (6) days before the return day thereof. Upon the return of the citation duly served, the justice shall cause the petitioner to be brought before him or her upon habeas corpus at the time and place named in the citation, and either then or at such other time as the justice shall appoint, shall proceed to examine the petitioner and to hear the evidence which may be properly adduced in favor of and against the granting of the prayer of the petition, and if it shall be made to appear that the petitioner has no property, rights, or credits with which to pay prison charges, or which is not exempt by law from attachment, and that the debtor has made an assignment to the warden in the manner prescribed in § 10-13-7, if the justice shall be of the opinion that the petitioner can truly take the oath prescribed in § 10-13-8, the justice may administer to the petitioner the oath, and the like certificate shall be issued thereof, and the certificate shall have the like effect in all respects with reference to the discharge of the petitioner from the correctional institution, and the issue of execution, or of alias or pluries execution, upon the judgment shall be in the form and with the like effect, as if the petitioner had been entitled to and admitted to take the poor debtors oath under the provisions of §§ 10-13-1  10-13-26.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-5
§ 10-5-5. Writ of attachment after filing of equitable complaint.
Status: in_force

In any civil action of an equitable character, at or after the filing of the complaint, the complainant may move the superior court, ex parte, to issue a writ of attachment, to run against the property of the defendants or any defendant in the cause; and the court, in its discretion, if the cause is of such a nature that an attachment of property is for the proper security of the complainant, shall on the motion, properly supported by affidavits to be filed in the cause, enter an order granting a writ of attachment, which writ may command the attachment of the real and personal estate of the defendant, including his or her personal estate in the hands or possession of any person, co-partnership or corporation, as the trustee of the defendant and his or her stock or shares in any banking association or other incorporated company, like a writ of attachment at the commencement of a civil action in conformity to the specific directions in the courts order; except as provided in § 6A-7-602, and shall be served in like manner and be subject to like incidents as a writ of attachment issued at the commencement of a civil action, and for such ad damnum, as shall be directed in the courts order and stated in the writ. And all property so attached shall be held for the security of any final judgment which the complainant may obtain in his or her favor in the cause, in pursuance of the directions of the order granting the writ of attachment. If a writ of attachment runs against real property and title to the real property is held in the name of a partnership, the writ shall include the name of the partnership.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-11
§ 10-9-11. Illness of person confined.
Status: in_force

Whenever, from the sickness or infirmity of the party, he or she cannot, without danger, be brought to the place appointed for the return of the writ, that fact shall be stated in the return, and if it is proved to the satisfaction of the court, the court may proceed to the institution or other place where the party is confined and there make the examination, or may adjourn the court to another time or may make such other order in the case as law and justice shall require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-14
§ 10-7-14. Homemaker defined.
Status: in_force

A homemaker as used in this chapter is a person who has primary responsibility for the care of a home and family and who receives no direct monetary compensation for their duties.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-26 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-26
§ 10-21-26. Uniformity of application and construction.
Status: in_force

In applying and construing this uniform 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.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-7.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-7.1
§ 10-7-7.1. Punitive damages.
Status: in_force

In an action commenced under § 10-7-5, recovery may be had for punitive damages if such damages would have been recoverable had the decedent survived.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-10
§ 10-20-10. Rights and remedies nonexclusive.
Status: in_force

No existing civil or criminal remedy for any wrongful action shall be excluded or impaired by § 10-20-3. The rights and remedies provided herein shall be in addition to any administrative, regulatory, statutory, or common law rights and remedies now or hereafter available.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-5
§ 10-17-5. Surrender of property to officer.
Status: in_force

When the personal estate of a defendant other than money or credits shall be attached in the hands of a person as trustee, if that person shall surrender the personal estate to the officer making the attachment, the officer shall take possession of the personal estate and make due return thereof upon the writ of attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-7
§ 10-9-7. Receipt and return of writ.
Status: in_force

Any person to whom the writ is directed shall receive it, and upon payment or tender of charges, if any be demandable for the execution of it, he or she shall make due return of the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-9
§ 10-20-9. Actions against state  Challenge to environmental quality standard  Remand to state agency  Intervention  Venue.
Status: in_force

(a) Civil actions. As hereinafter provided in this section, any city or town residing within the state or the environmental advocate may maintain a civil action in the superior court for declaratory or equitable relief against the state or any agency or instrumentality thereof where the nature of the action is a challenge to an environmental quality standard for which the applicable statutory appeal period has elapsed.

(b) Burden of proof. In any action maintained under this section, the plaintiff shall have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the environmental quality standard is substantially inadequate to protect the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction.

(c) Remand; judicial review. In any action maintained under this section, the superior court, upon showing by the plaintiff of those matters specified in subsection (b), may remand the parties to the state agency or instrumentality that promulgated the environmental quality standard which is the subject of the action, requiring the agency or instrumentality to institute the appropriate administrative proceedings to consider and make findings and an order on those matters specified in subsection (b). In so remanding the parties, the court may grant temporary equitable relief where appropriate to prevent irreparable injury to the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state. In so remanding the parties, the court shall retain jurisdiction for purposes of judicial review to determine whether the order of the agency is supported by a preponderance of the evidence. If plaintiff fails to establish a prima facie showing, the court shall dismiss the action.

(d) Intervention. In any action maintained under this section, any person residing within the state or the environmental advocate may intervene as a party, provided that the person makes timely application to the superior court prior to the courts remand of the action as specified in subsection (c).

(e) Venue. Any action maintained under this section shall be brought in the superior court of Providence county.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-28 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-28
§ 10-21-28. Transition.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to a receivership for which the receiver was appointed before June 20, 2022.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-13
§ 10-5-13. Defendants bond.
Status: in_force

The defendant in any writ upon which goods and chattels shall have been attached may, at any time within forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, after the attachment, deliver to the officer a bond in the penal sum of the amount of damages laid in the writ, signed by the defendant or someone in his or her behalf, with surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the officer, with a condition in the surety that the surety shall be null and void if the final judgment or decree in the action or cause in which the writ was served shall be immediately paid and satisfied after the rendition thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-7
§ 10-10-7. Custody of person arrested.
Status: in_force

Every officer who shall arrest any person by virtue of any writ of arrest, in a civil action, shall keep the person in safe custody until he or she is discharged pursuant to law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-2
§ 10-10-2. Form of writ from superior court.
Status: in_force

An original writ of arrest issued from the superior court shall be substantially in the following form:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-23 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-23
§ 10-21-23. Final report of receiver  Discharge.
Status: in_force

(a) On completion of a receivers duties, the receiver shall file a final report including:

(1) A description of the activities of the receiver in the conduct of the receivership;

(2) A list of receivership property at the commencement of the receivership and any receivership property received during the receivership;

(3) A list of disbursements, including payments to professionals engaged by the receiver;

(4) A list of dispositions of receivership property;

(5) A list of distributions made or proposed to be made from the receivership for creditor claims;

(6) If not filed separately, a request for approval of the payment of fees and expenses of the receiver; and

(7) Any other information required by the court.

(b) If the court approves a final report filed under subsection (a) of this section and the receiver distributes all receivership property, the receiver is discharged.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-2
§ 10-16-2. Jurisdiction of district court.
Status: in_force

The district court shall have full jurisdiction of actions brought under the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-15
§ 10-11-15. Period after judgment allowed for action against bail.
Status: in_force

No action against the bail shall be commenced unless it is within two (2) years next after the entering up of final judgment against the principal; provided, that if by reason of the absence of the bail from the state, service of process could not have been made within the time before mentioned, the action may be commenced at any time within two (2) years next after the return of the bail into the state. In computing the periods of time provided in this section, time during which execution is stayed shall not be included.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-3
§ 10-16-3. Venue of actions  Rules of practice.
Status: in_force

The venue of actions under this chapter shall be the same as in ordinary civil actions, except cases wherein the plaintiff is a corporation, in which event the action must be brought in the division of the district court wherein the defendant resides. If the defendant resides outside the state, then the venue shall be the same as in other civil actions. The laws relating to practice in ordinary civil actions in the district court, which are applicable to this procedure, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall apply to cases under this procedure.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-11
§ 10-7-11. Applicability to pending actions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all actions for death by wrongful act pending on May 26, 1971.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-5
§ 10-3-5. Determination as to whether issue is subject to arbitration.
Status: in_force

If the making of the arbitration agreement or the failure, neglect, or refusal to perform the arbitration agreement is in issue, the court shall proceed summarily to the trial thereof. If no jury trial be demanded, the court shall hear and determine the issue. Where such an issue is raised, either party may, on or before the return day of the notice of application, demand a jury trial of the issue, and upon the demand of a jury trial the court shall make an order referring the issue or issues to a jury as in equity causes. If the jury finds that no agreement in writing for arbitration was made, or that there is no default in proceeding thereunder, the proceeding shall be dismissed. If the jury finds that an agreement for arbitration was made in writing and that there is a default in proceeding thereunder, the court shall make an order summarily directing the parties to proceed with the arbitration in accordance with the terms thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-13
§ 10-9-13. Failure of officer to deliver copy of process by which prisoner held.
Status: in_force

Every officer who shall refuse or neglect, for six (6) hours, to deliver a true copy of the warrant or process, by which he or she detains any prisoner, to any person who shall demand such copy and tender the fees therefor, shall forfeit and pay to the prisoner the sum of one hundred dollars ($100).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-6
§ 10-18-6. Compensation of receiver.
Status: in_force

The receiver shall be compensated in an amount as determined by the superior court at such times as the court shall in its discretion determine. The receiver shall also be reimbursed for any costs incurred during the receivership. The amounts accrued as costs may be charged by the receiver to the debtor or deducted from distributions to be made by the receiver. Allocations of the amounts to particular distributions shall be within the discretion of the receiver.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-17
§ 10-9-17. Denial of facts in return or statement  Hearing of evidence.
Status: in_force

The party imprisoned or restrained may deny any of the facts set forth in the return or statement and may allege any other facts that may be material in the case, and the court shall proceed in a summary way to examine the causes of imprisonment or restraint and to hear the evidence that may be produced by any person interested and authorized to appear, both in support of the imprisonment or restraint and against it, and thereupon to dispose of the party as law and justice shall require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-17
§ 10-5-17. Release of real estate on bond.
Status: in_force

The director of the department of public safety or his or her designee wherein any officer commanded by any original writ or writ of mesne process to attach the real estate or right, title, and interest in the real estate of any defendant has attached the real estate or defendants right, title, and interest therein, by himself or herself release and discharge the attachment upon the public records at any time after the attachment and before final judgment or decree:

(1) Upon being tendered a bond, running to the division of sheriffs, by the defendant or someone in his or her behalf with sufficient surety, which surety shall be a surety corporation authorized so to act in this state, in the penal sum of the amount of damages stated in the writ, with condition that the bond shall be null and void if there is a settlement or discontinuance of the action or cause, or if the final judgment or decree in the action or cause in which the writ of attachment was served shall be immediately paid and satisfied after the rendition of the final judgment or decree, or if the execution issued in the writ be returned satisfied, or if final judgment or decree in the action or cause is for the defendant, or upon the happening of any event which, ipso facto, would have resulted in the extinguishment of the lien of the attachment had the attachment not been released and discharged pursuant to the provisions of this section; or

(2) Upon payment by a defendant, or by someone in his or her behalf, of the amount of damages stated in the writ, into the registry of the court in which the action or cause is then pending, and the clerk thereof shall immediately notify the sheriff of the fact of the payment and thereafter shall pay from the amount so deposited to the plaintiff, if final judgment or decree is in his or her favor, so much thereof as may be required to satisfy his or her execution, and shall pay the balance, if any, of the amount so deposited, with actual accrued interest, if any, to the defendant, and if judgment or decree in the action or cause is for defendant, in the event upon presentation of execution in his or her favor, the amount so deposited, with actual accrued interest, if any, shall be immediately paid to the defendant, but such amount may at any time be paid by the clerk as the parties may by their agreement stipulate, or as the court upon motion of any party in interest may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-3
§ 10-12-3. Limits of jail yard.
Status: in_force

The limits of each county shall be the limits of the jail yard of the county.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-2
§ 10-18-2. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) A prior creditor is any creditor who had extended credit prior to the filing of the petition with the court.

(b) A subsequent creditor is any creditor who extends credit subsequent to the filing of the petition with the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-14
§ 10-9-14. Examination of cause of restraint  Adjournment.
Status: in_force

When the writ of habeas corpus is returned, the court shall, without delay, proceed to examine the causes of the imprisonment or restraint, but the examination may be adjourned from time to time, as circumstances may require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-24 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-24
§ 10-21-24. Receivership in another state  Ancillary proceeding.
Status: in_force

(a) The court may appoint a receiver appointed in another state, or that persons nominee, as an ancillary receiver with respect to property located in this state or subject to the jurisdiction of the court for which a receiver could be appointed under this chapter, if:

(1) The person or nominee would be eligible to serve as receiver under this chapter; and

(2) The appointment furthers the persons possession, custody, control, or disposition of property subject to the receivership in the other state.

(b) The court may issue an order that gives effect to an order entered in another state appointing or directing a receiver.

(c) Unless the court orders otherwise, an ancillary receiver appointed under subsection (a) of this section has the rights, powers, and duties of a receiver appointed under this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-10
§ 10-11-10. Commitment of principal after judgment.
Status: in_force

If the principal shall be committed by the bail to a correctional institution after the final judgment, or if, being surrendered by his or her bail to the court before which the action is pending against bail, he or she shall be committed by the court to a correctional institution, he or she shall there remain for the space of thirty (30) days, unless sooner discharged by order of law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-11
§ 10-20-11. Short title.
Status: in_force

Chapter 20 of this title may be cited as the Rhode Island Environmental Rights Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-27 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-27
§ 10-13-27. Petition for discharge by prisoner unable to pay tort judgment.
Status: in_force

Whenever any person shall have been imprisoned for six (6) months upon a writ of arrest, mesne process, execution, or upon surrender or commitment by bail in any action on any penal statute, actions sounding in tort, including actions for possession of land or trespass to land in which title to the land is not in dispute, or other civil action in which such person is not now entitled to his or her discharge, upon being admitted to take the poor debtors oath, the person so imprisoned may petition the justice of the district court in the county in which he or she is imprisoned, setting forth that he or she is detained in prison, the term of his or her imprisonment, the cause of his or her committal, and the name and residence of the person at whose suit he or she was committed, and that he or she is unable to pay the judgment upon which he or she is committed, and to pay his or her prison charges: provided, however, that any person who shall have been imprisoned as provided in this chapter upon a writ issued out of a district court or upon execution wherein the debt or damages and costs shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) may petition as provided in this chapter after ninety (90) days of imprisonment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-18
§ 10-9-18. Discharge on failure to show cause for restraint.
Status: in_force

If no legal cause be shown for the imprisonment or restraint, the court shall discharge the party therefrom.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-13
§ 10-21-13. Duties of owner.
Status: in_force

(a) An owner shall:

(1) Assist and cooperate with the receiver in the administration of the receivership and the discharge of the receivers duties;

(2) Preserve and turn over to the receiver all receivership property in the owners possession, custody, or control;

(3) Identify all records and other information relating to the receivership property, including a password, authorization, or other information needed to obtain or maintain access to or control of the receivership property, and make available to the receiver the records and information in the owners possession, custody, or control;

(4) On subpoena, submit to examination under oath by the receiver concerning the acts, conduct, property, liabilities, and financial condition of the owner or any matter relating to the receivership property or the receivership; and

(5) Perform any duty imposed by court order, this chapter, or law of this state other than this chapter.

(b) If an owner is a person other than an individual, this section applies to each officer, director, manager, member, partner, trustee, or other person exercising or having the power to exercise control over the affairs of the owner.

(c) If a person knowingly fails to perform a duty imposed by this section, the court may:

(1) Award the receiver actual damages caused by the persons failure, reasonable attorneys fees, and costs; and

(2) Sanction the failure as civil contempt.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-16
§ 10-17-16. Joint action against trustees failing to account.
Status: in_force

If several trustees shall neglect or refuse to render an account upon oath in the same case, then the plaintiff shall bring his or her action against all the trustees jointly, and in no other manner.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-1
§ 10-1-1. Action to abate nuisance  Contents.
Status: in_force

Whenever a nuisance is alleged to exist, the attorney general or any citizen of the state may bring an action in the name of the state, upon the relation of the attorney general or of an individual citizen, to abate the nuisance and to perpetually enjoin the person or persons maintaining the nuisance and any or all persons owning any legal or equitable interest in the place from further maintaining or permitting the nuisance either directly or indirectly. The complaint shall be duly sworn to by the complaining party, unless brought by the attorney general, and shall set forth the names of the parties, the object of the action, a description of the place complained of, and a statement of the facts constituting the alleged nuisance.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-29 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-29
§ 10-5-29. Redemption of mortgage by plaintiff in attachment.
Status: in_force

The plaintiff in any attachment under § 10-5-26 may redeem the mortgaged estate in the same manner as the mortgagor might have done; and in case of redemption by the plaintiff, the plaintiff shall have the same lien on the property for the amount paid by him or her, with interest, as the mortgagee had.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-3
§ 10-7-3. Action by beneficiaries.
Status: in_force

If there is no executor or administrator, or if, there being one, no action is brought in his or her name within six (6) months after the death, one action may be brought in the names of all the beneficiaries, either by all, or by part stating that they sue for the benefit of all, and stating their respective relations to the deceased; provided, that if all do not bring suit, only those bringing it shall be responsible for costs; but judgment shall be for the benefit of all and shall be entered as several judgments for each in his or her proportion, and executions thereon shall issue in favor of each respectively; provided, further, that if action is brought by the beneficiaries, no action shall thereafter be brought by the executor or administrator. There shall be but one bill of costs in favor of the plaintiffs, which shall enure equally for the benefit of those bringing the suit, and of them only.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-3.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-3.1
§ 10-16-3.1. Corporations  Representatives.
Status: in_force

(a) Any corporation with total assets of less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) organized under the laws of this state or licensed to do business under the laws of this state, which is a corporation incorporated as a close corporation pursuant to § 7-1.2-1701, or if the corporation is a close corporation or which is a corporation whose majority stockholders are family members related by blood or marriage, may designate a representative thereof to prosecute claims under this chapter; provided, however, that no representative may be designated to prosecute claims for more than one corporation. The designation authorized by an officer of the corporation shall be filed with the clerk of the district court in which any claim is filed.

(b) No representative under this section, if not licensed to practice law, shall be deemed to be practicing law without a license.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-30 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-30
§ 10-5-30. Defeat of attachment by failure to sell or redeem from mortgage.
Status: in_force

If the mortgage is not redeemed by the plaintiff, or the mortgaged property sold as provided in § 10-5-27, before the time of redemption expires, the attachment shall become void.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-41 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-41
§ 10-5-41. Time of attachment shown in return.
Status: in_force

The officer who shall make any attachment shall, in his or her return, set forth the time of the day when the attachment was made, to the end that the priority of attachment may be known.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-21
§ 10-13-21. Administration of oath.
Status: in_force

Upon the return of the citation, the magistrate authorized to administer the oath by § 10-13-7, in the county in which the defendant is liable to be imprisoned, may administer the oath to the defendant, if upon examination of the defendant on oath, and of such other evidence as either party may produce, he or she shall think proper.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-20
§ 10-9-20. Order as to bail when person held on civil mesne process.
Status: in_force

If the party is committed on mesne process in any civil action for want of bail and if it shall appear that the sum for which bail is required is excessive and unreasonable, the court shall decide what bail is reasonable and shall order that on giving reasonable bail the party shall be discharged.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-11
§ 10-13-11. Detainment for fees prohibited.
Status: in_force

No person who has been admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-8 shall be retained in a correctional institution for the prison fees or for the fees of the justice before whom he or she may have taken such oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-24 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-24
§ 10-5-24. Release of stock or trust estate by plaintiff.
Status: in_force

In case the writ shall have been returned to the court to which it is made returnable, and duly entered in the court, or in case the officer who served the writ shall, from any cause, be unable to accept the bond and release the shares or personal estate in the hands or possession of the trustee from the attachment, then the bond given to release the attachment shall be delivered to the plaintiff, or his or her attorney named on the writ, the bond running to the plaintiff, and with surety to the satisfaction of the plaintiff or the plaintiffs attorney; and upon the acceptance of the bond by the plaintiff or the plaintiffs attorney, the plaintiff or his or her attorney shall upon receipt of the bond give to the defendant a certificate, signed by the plaintiff or his or her attorney, that he or she has accepted the bond and released the shares or personal estate from attachment. In the case of the refusal of the plaintiff or his or her attorney to act upon the bond or to receive a proper bond and give such certification, the defendant may petition the court to which the writ is returnable, or if appellate proceedings have been taken may petition the court to which the proceedings have been taken, to accept a bond running to the plaintiff and satisfactory to the court and release the shares or personal estate from attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-17
§ 10-3-17. Papers filed for judgment.
Status: in_force

Any party to a proceeding for an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award shall, when the order is entered, file with the clerk, for the entry of judgment thereon, the following papers:

(1) The agreement, the selection or appointment, if any, of an additional arbitrator or umpire, and each written extension of the time, if any, within which to make the award.

(2) The award.

(3) Each notice, affidavit or other paper used upon an application to confirm, modify or correct the award, and a copy of each order of the court upon such an application.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-7
§ 10-12-7. Failure to report or assign to warden deemed an escape.
Status: in_force

If any person so committed shall neglect to render himself or herself to the warden of the institution, in the institution, within thirty (30) days, or make an assignment as provided in § 10-12-5, he or she shall be deemed to have committed an escape under his or her bond for the liberty of the jail yard.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-13
§ 10-11-13. Judgment against bail.
Status: in_force

Whenever the principal shall avoid, so that his or her goods and chattels, real estate or other property subject to levy on execution, cannot be found to satisfy the execution, nor his or her body be found to be taken thereby, the plaintiff in the writ of arrest may bring a civil action against the bail in the same court wherein final judgment was rendered against the principal, and, in case no legal cause be shown to the contrary, judgment shall be given against the bail for the debt or damages and costs recovered against the principal, with interest and costs, and execution shall be awarded accordingly.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-5
§ 10-7-5. Liability for medical expense and diminution of earning power.
Status: in_force

Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, in addition to the one provided for under §§ 10-7-1  10-7-4 for the hospital, medical, and other expenses incurred, including diminution of earning power until time of death, by or in behalf of the party injured by reason of the wrongful act, neglect or default, notwithstanding the death of the person injured and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to a felony.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-8
§ 10-1-8. Dissolution of order to keep closed.
Status: in_force

(a) The owner or lessor of any place ordered closed pursuant to § 10-1-7 may, at any time, have the order to keep the place closed dissolved upon the payment of all costs incurred and upon the filing of a bond in such sum and with such surety as shall be fixed and approved by the court, conditioned upon the immediate abatement of the nuisance and against any further maintenance thereof, provided the owner or lessor shall prove to the satisfaction of the court that he or she had no knowledge and by the exercise of reasonable diligence could not have learned of the existence of the nuisance before the commencement of the action.

(b) The dissolution of the order to keep the place closed shall not release the place from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability, to which it may be subject by law. If any person shall break and enter or use a place ordered closed pursuant to § 10-1-7, he or she shall be punished for contempt as provided in § 10-1-10.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-12.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-12.1
§ 10-21-12.1. Powers and duties of temporary non-liquidating receiver  Operating plan.
Status: in_force

(a) A temporary non-liquidating receiver shall:

(1) Assist the owner in developing an operating plan in consultation;

(2) Present the operating plan to the court for approval; and

(3) Monitor the owners business operations and the owners compliance with the plan.

(b) An operating plan must:

(1) Except to the extent that a particular creditor has agreed to a different treatment of its claim:

(i) Provide for the payment of any secured obligation of the owner on the terms of the secured obligation;

(ii) Provide for the payment of the owners debts accruing or arising after the appointment of the receiver when such debts become due; and

(iii) Provide for the payment of each of the owners other debts either:

(A) In periodic installments over a term of not more than three (3) years after the court approves the plan; or

(B) As to a particular debt, in such other manner as the owner and the creditor may agree in a record; and

(2) Include such other measures as necessary to justify the termination of the receivership.

(c) The court may modify the operating plan.

(d) A temporary non-liquidating receiver may not exercise any of the powers under §§ 10-21-12(a)(1) through (4) unless:

(1) The court directs otherwise for cause; or

(2) The owner defaults on an approved operating plan after such notice and opportunity to cure the default as the court specifies.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-5
§ 10-18-5. Resignation and removal of receiver  Termination of receivership.
Status: in_force

(a) The receiver may resign only on permission of a justice of the superior court.

(b) The receiver may be removed by any creditor or the debtor at any time by application to the court and upon good cause satisfactory to the court being shown for his or her removal.

(c) Upon resignation or removal of the receiver or termination of the receivership for any other reason:

(1) If such event occurs during the pendency of the plan, the court shall appoint a successor receiver in accordance with the provisions of § 10-18-4; and

(2) The receiver shall render full accounting to the court of the transactions under the plan during his or her service as receiver.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-16
§ 10-11-16. Bails remedy against principal.
Status: in_force

The bail may have remedy by a civil action against his or her principal for all damages sustained by his or her becoming bail.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-13
§ 10-17-13. Determination as to whether trustee is chargeable.
Status: in_force

Whenever any person shall be served with a copy of a writ by which he or she shall be sought to be charged as trustee of the defendant named in the writ, and the person shall appear and answer to the action or suit so commenced, as to whether he or she is or is not a trustee of the defendant, the court in which the action or suit is brought or may be pending shall determine whether the person so served, is properly chargeable as the trustee of the defendant; and if chargeable, to what extent.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-45 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-45
§ 10-5-45. Dissolution of attachment for failure to file complaint.
Status: in_force

An attachment of property on any writ hereafter issued shall be dissolved if the complaint in the action is not filed with the court either before or within thirty (30) days after the attachment is made. A certificate signed by the clerk of the court to which the writ is returnable which states that according to the records of the court the complaint has not been filed shall be sufficient authority to dissolve the attachment and to release any funds or properties attached pursuant to the writ and shall further serve to release the garnishee from any liability that might exist by virtue of the issuance of the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-2-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / Section 10-2-2
§ 10-2-2. Appointment and meeting of auditors.
Status: in_force

Upon rendering final judgment against the defendant in an action under § 10-2-1 that he or she shall account, the court rendering the final judgment shall appoint not more than three (3) auditors who, upon being sworn by the court, or any justice of the peace or notary public, to a faithful and impartial discharge of their duties, shall appoint a time and place to meet the parties in the action and to take the account, as required in the courts judgment, and shall give notice of the meeting to the parties.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-4
§ 10-18-4. Appointment of receiver and assignment.
Status: in_force

(a) After the debtor has filed a petition for a wage earner receivership plan, the court shall select a receiver who shall be an attorney authorized to practice in Rhode Island.

(b) The debtor shall deliver to the receiver a written assignment of all of his or her future wages, salaries, and commissions.

(c) The receiver shall give bond to be approved by the court.