R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-9
§ 10-5-9. Method of attaching real estate.
Status: in_force

The officer commanded by any writ to attach real estate, or the right, title, and interest of any defendant in real estate, shall attach the real estate by leaving an attested copy of the writ, with a copy of his or her doings thereon, with the town clerk of the town in which the real estate shall be situated, unless there be a recorder of deeds of the town, in which case he or she shall leave the copy with the recorder of deeds; and the town clerk or recorder of deeds, as the case may be, shall note upon the copy the time, as near as may be, when the copy was left with him or her, and shall also enter in a book, to be kept by him or her for that purpose, the names of the parties in the writ, including the name of any partnership set forth in the writ where any real property of a defendant being attached is held in a partnership name the amount of the damages claimed, the time when the copy was left with him or her, and the court to which the writ is returnable, and shall be entitled to demand and receive from the officer a fee of twenty-five cents ($0.25) in each case, and the officer shall in all cases, in accordance with applicable procedural rules, serve the defendant with a copy of the writ and his or her doings thereon.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-20
§ 10-18-20. Notices  Employment changes.
Status: in_force

(a) All notices provided for in this chapter may be given by registered or certified mail with return receipt requested, and if the return receipt is not received, the court may order the notice served as process is served in the court, and the cost thereof shall be paid by the person giving notice.

(b) The period of notice for all court hearings for which notice is required shall be at least five (5) days, unless the court by rule or special order shall prescribe a different period of time.

(c) If the debtor changes his or her employer or acquires an additional employer, he or she shall notify the receiver and execute and deliver to the receiver a new assignment of his or her wages if required and the receiver shall give written notice thereof to the new employer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-8
§ 10-10-8. Notation of cause of action on execution and commitment.
Status: in_force

Every clerk of any court, issuing an execution against any person, shall note on the margin of the execution the cause of action on which the execution issued, to the end that the warden of the adult correctional institutions may ascertain whether the person, if committed, is entitled to the liberty of the jail yard, and every officer committing any person to correctional institutions on such execution shall note in his or her commitment the cause of action on which the execution is founded, according to the note or memorandum of the clerk.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-2
§ 10-4-2. Filing of schedules and lists  Certificate of deed of assignment.
Status: in_force

Every person making an assignment at common law for the benefit of creditors shall file with his or her assignee a sworn itemized schedule of all his or her assets, showing the amount and kind of his or her property, where located and the cash value thereof, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, and a list of his or her creditors, stating their names, residences, and the amounts due each of them, and the evidences thereof and securities therefor, if any, held by them. The sworn itemized schedule and the bond required in § 10-4-1 shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court who shall certify on the deed of assignment that the assignee named in the deed of assignment has complied with the provisions of § 10-4-1 and this section. No city or town clerk shall accept any deed of assignment for record unless it shall bear the certificate of the clerk of the superior court showing compliance with § 10-4-1 and this section, and any deed of assignment which does not bear the certificate showing compliance with § 10-4-1 and this section shall be null and void.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-5
§ 10-9-5. Court to which writ returnable.
Status: in_force

Any justice issuing a writ under this chapter shall make the writ returnable to the court of which he or she is a justice.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-11
§ 10-18-11. Subsequent creditors.
Status: in_force

(a) All subsequent creditors who have obtained the receivers approval prior to their extension of credit may be included in the plan upon application to the court by the creditor, the receiver, or the debtor.

(b) The court, upon application by a creditor to be included in the plan, may include such creditors in the plan if it determines that the extension of credit to the debtor was reasonable. The courts criteria in the process of determining the reasonableness of a creditors extension of credit shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) Amount of credit extended;

(2) Purpose for which the credit was extended;

(3) Terms upon which the credit was extended;

(4) Debtors ability to meet this extra financial obligation in light of his or her financial position under the plan.

(c) If a subsequent secured creditor extends credit without the receivers approval, the secured creditor may reclaim or repossess the collateral sold on security if the debtor defaults upon the contract of sale unless the retention of such collateral by the debtor is essential to the continuance of his or her employment upon reasonable terms and conditions. In such case, § 10-18-10(e) shall apply.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-1
§ 10-3-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be referred to as The Arbitration Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-22
§ 10-9-22. Appeals and exceptions barred  Subsequent application to supreme court allowed.
Status: in_force

No appeal or exception shall lie to the judgment of the superior court in habeas corpus; but if the superior court shall remand the person imprisoned or restrained, the superior courts judgment shall not bar an application to the supreme court, or a justice thereof, for another writ upon the same facts.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-7
§ 10-13-7. Administration of oath  Assignment of estate.
Status: in_force

The justice of any district court in the county where the prisoner is committed may at the time and place appointed examine the return of the citation, and if it shall appear to have been duly served, may administer the oath prescribed in § 10-13-8 to the party imprisoned as provided in § 10-13-5, if, after fully examining the prisoner under oath and hearing the parties, the justice shall think it proper so to do; provided, the applicant shall then and there first make and execute a deed of assignment of all his or her estate of every kind and wherever the estate may be, except what is exempted from attachment by law, other than debts secured by bills of exchange or negotiable promissory notes, to the warden and his or her successor in his or her office and his or her heirs and assigns, in trust for the benefit of all his or her creditors in proportion to their respective demands.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-19
§ 10-5-19. Attachment of corporate stock or trust estate.
Status: in_force

Whenever a writ shall command the attachment of the shares of the defendant in any corporation, or of his or her personal estate in the hands of any person, co-partnership or corporation, as trustee, it shall be served by leaving an attested copy of the writ, having endorsed on the writ the date and time of day of the service, with the person or some member of the co-partnership named in the writ as trustee, or at the usual place of business of the person or co-partnership with some person there employed; or if the trustee, or the corporation whose shares shall be directed to be attached, shall be a bank, with the cashier, treasurer or secretary of the bank; if an insurance company, with the president or secretary of the company; and if any other corporation, it shall be served by leaving an attested copy of the writ, having endorsed on the writ the date and time of day of the service, with the treasurer of the corporation, or the person executing the duties of treasurer of the corporation, or with the attorney of the corporation appointed with authority to accept service of process against the corporation in this state, or with any other officer of the corporation, or with the agent or superintendent of the corporation, or at the office of the corporation with some person there employed, and shall tender to the person upon whom service is made the sum of two dollars ($2.00) and his or her traveling fee as witness in the superior court, and the sum of one dollar ($1.00) and like traveling fee if the writ is returnable in any other court; and the officer shall also serve the defendant in accordance with applicable procedural rules.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-5
§ 10-6-5. Separate settlement with injured person.
Status: in_force

A joint tortfeasor who enters into a settlement with the injured person is not entitled to recover contribution from another joint tortfeasor whose liability to the injured person is not extinguished by the settlement.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-8
§ 10-11-8. Discharge of bail before judgment.
Status: in_force

A person may also, at any time before final judgment against him or her as bail, discharge himself or herself as bail in either of the two following modes:

(1) By committing his or her principal to a correctional institution in the county in which he or she became bail or in which the writ of arrest was returnable, paying or tendering to the creditor or his or her attorney the costs, if any, which shall have accrued on the action against him or her as bail, and leaving with the warden of the institution a certified copy of the writ of arrest and the return of the officer thereon, and a certified copy of the bond given to the officer serving the writ or given to the warden of the adult correctional institutions, if either of the bonds have been given, and giving to the plaintiff, if in this state, or his or her agent or his or her attorney of record, notice in writing of the time and place of the commitment within six (6) days after making the commitment; or,

(2) By bringing his or her principal into the court where the action against him or her as bail shall be pending, before final judgment shall be rendered thereon, after notice to the plaintiff or his or her attorney of record, paying the costs on the action against him or her as bail, the costs of the commitment of the principal and one weeks board at the institution and delivering his or her principal into the custody of court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-5
§ 10-12-5. Assignment of property by person committed on execution.
Status: in_force

No person committed on execution shall have the liberty of the prison yard for more than thirty (30) days after his or her commitment, unless he or she shall within the thirty (30) days execute an assignment of all his or her estate of every kind not exempted from attachment by law, and wherever the same may be, to the warden of the institution and his or her successor in the office, and his or her heirs and assigns, in trust for the equal benefit of all his or her creditors in proportion to their demands.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-9
§ 10-3-9. Taking of depositions.
Status: in_force

Upon petition, approved by the arbitrators or by a majority of them, the superior court may direct the taking of depositions to be used as evidence before the arbitrators, in the same manner and for the same reasons as provided by law for the taking of depositions in suits or proceedings pending in superior court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-20
§ 10-17-20. Questions of fact on additional allegations.
Status: in_force

Any question of fact arising upon additional allegations may be tried and determined in the manner that the court shall direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-28.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-28.1
§ 10-21-28.1. Emergency declaration temporary non-liquidating receivership transition provisions.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding § 10-21-28, the court may for cause apply this chapter to a receivership for which a receiver was appointed before June 20, 2022, if the owner would otherwise be eligible for a temporary non-liquidating receivership.

(b) Unless extended by the general assembly, the emergency declaration provisions apply only to a receivership in which the court first appoints a receiver:

(1) If because of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the period beginning on the effective date of this chapter [June 20, 2022] and ending on June 30, 2022; or

(2) If because of any other emergency, during the period beginning on the date the emergency declaration is issued and ending ninety (90) days after the end of the emergency.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-2-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / Section 10-2-5
§ 10-2-5. Majority report of auditors  Quorum.
Status: in_force

If a major part of the auditors appointed in any case agree to and assign such report or award, the report or award shall be equally binding and conclusive as if agreed to and signed by all of them; provided, that it shall be necessary, in order to give validity to the report or award, that all the auditors shall accept of their appointment and meet on the subject matter thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-6
§ 10-6-6. Effect of judgment against one tortfeasor.
Status: in_force

The recovery of a judgment by the injured person against one joint tortfeasor does not discharge the other joint tortfeasors.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-6
§ 10-20-6. Relief.
Status: in_force

The court may grant declaratory relief, temporary and permanent equitable relief, or may impose such conditions upon a party as are necessary or appropriate to protect the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction, considering the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and the availability of feasible, prudent, and economically viable alternatives.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-1
§ 10-18-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Wage Earner Receivership Statute.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-17.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-17.1
§ 10-5-17.1. Discharge of sheriffs bond for want of action.
Status: in_force

The prejudgment lien against the real estate described in a sheriffs bond, created by the recording of the sheriffs bond with the land evidence records of any city or town shall be discharged and dissolved and no longer a lien upon the real estate described in the lien if no action has been taken to enforce the bond for a period of ten (10) years from the date of the recording.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-23 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-23
§ 10-3-23. Fees and costs of arbitration initiation  Invoice  Breach of agreement  Sanctions.
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, unless there is a mutually agreed upon provision to split costs equally, the drafting party, unless otherwise specified, is to pay certain fees and costs before the arbitration can proceed. If the fees or costs to initiate an 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 arbitration under § 10-3-4.

(2) After an employee or consumer meets the filing requirements necessary to initiate an arbitration, the arbitration provider shall immediately provide an invoice for any fees and costs required before the arbitration can proceed 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.

(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 do either of the following:

(1) Withdraw the claim from arbitration and proceed in a court of appropriate jurisdiction; or

(2) Compel arbitration in which the drafting party shall pay reasonable attorneys fees and costs related to the arbitration.

(c) If the employee, consumer, or other involved party withdraws the claim from arbitration and proceeds with an action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction under subsection (b)(1) of this section, 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 a court, arbitration forum, or other dispute resolution forum.

(d) If the employee or consumer proceeds with an action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the court shall impose sanctions on the drafting party in accordance with § 10-3-25.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-2
§ 10-17-2. Account by trustee as to attached property.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever any person, partnership, or corporation shall be served with a judicial writ, original or mesne process, with purpose of attaching the wages or personal estate of the defendant in the hands or possession of the person, partnership, or corporation, the person, partnership, or corporation shall render an account in writing, upon oath, to the court to which the writ is returnable. The original account shall state what wages or personal estate, if any, up to the amount of the demands set forth in the writ, the trustee had in his, her, or its hands or possession at the time the writ was served, except as provided in § 6A-4-303; or if none shall exist, the trustee shall state that fact in writing, to the court. The trustee is not required to account to the court for property in his, her, or its hands or possession in excess of the demand set forth in the writ.

(b) Whenever a supplemental accounting is required by § 10-17-4, the trustee shall set forth the amount of wages garnished, if any, in the reporting period and shall also state the total amount of defendants wages held by the trustee to date. Upon the entire amount of demand as set forth in the writ being collected, or if the defendant permanently leaves the trustees employment, final account shall be filed with the court issuing the writ, setting forth that fact.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-42 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-42
§ 10-5-42. Appointment of receiver  Effect on attachment.
Status: in_force

An attachment of property, on any original writ or writ of mesne process hereafter issued, shall be dissolved by the appointment by the superior court of a permanent receiver to take possession of the property to be attached, if the complaint praying for the appointment of the receiver is filed in the superior court within four (4) months after the attachment was made, unless the court, in its discretion, and on due notice, shall order that the right under the attachment shall be preserved by the receiver for the benefit of the estate in receivership. In such case, the court may authorize the receiver to prosecute the action upon which the attachment was made for the benefit of the estate in receivership and may make all such other orders as may be necessary to enable the receiver to recover for the benefit of the estate in receivership the interest of the defendant in the attached property, as of the time of the attachment, and the right and lien of the creditor under the attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-2
§ 10-3-2. Agreements to arbitrate subject to chapter  Notice.
Status: in_force

(a) When clearly written and expressed, a provision in a written contract to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising out of such contract, or out of the refusal to perform the whole or any part thereof, or an agreement in writing between two (2) or more persons to submit to arbitration any controversy existing between them at the time of the agreement to submit shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract; provided, however, that the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to collective contracts between employers and employees, or between employers and associations of employees, in respect to terms or conditions of employment; and provided further, that in all contracts of primary insurance, wherein the provision for arbitration is not placed immediately before the testimonium clause or the signature of the parties, the arbitration procedure may be enforced at the option of the insured, and in the event the insured exercises the option to arbitrate, then the provisions of this chapter shall apply and be the exclusive remedy available to the insured.

(b) Notice of intention to arbitrate. A party may serve upon another party a demand for arbitration or a notice of intention to arbitrate, specifying the agreement pursuant to which arbitration is sought and the name and address of the party serving the notice, or of an officer or agent thereof if such party is an association or corporation, and stating that unless the party served applies to stay the arbitration within twenty (20) days after such service they shall thereafter be precluded from objecting that a valid agreement was not made or has not been complied with and from asserting in court the bar of a limitation of time. Such notice or demand shall be served in the same manner as a summons or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. An application to stay arbitration shall be made by the party served within twenty (20) days after service upon the party of the notice or demand, or they shall be so precluded. Notice of such application shall be served in the same manner as a summons or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. Service of the application may be made upon the adverse party, or upon their attorney if the attorneys name appears on the demand for arbitration or the notice of intention to arbitrate. Service of the application by mail shall be timely if such application is posted within the prescribed period. Any provision in an arbitration agreement or arbitration rules that waives the right to apply for a stay of arbitration or prescribes a manner of notifying a party of an intention to commence arbitration that is more burdensome than that described in this section is hereby declared null and void.

(c) The party required to send notice pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall affirmatively include in the notice the rights being waived by failure to apply for the stay of arbitration. Said notice shall be done in bold print and highlighted.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-13
§ 10-13-13. Second citation to creditor by debtor not admitted to oath.
Status: in_force

If a debtor take out a citation to his or her committing creditor and have the citation served and subsequently withdraw the citation, or if upon trial he or she shall not be admitted to take the oath prescribed in § 10-13-8, he or she shall not be entitled to another citation to the same creditor unless on proof of some change of circumstances after the taking out of the first citation, a statement of which change of circumstances shall be annexed to, or cited in, the second citation and form a part thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-14
§ 10-18-14. Contents and payments of plan.
Status: in_force

(a) The plan, giving due regard to the reasonable requirements of the debtor and his or her dependents, shall provide for periodic payments by or on behalf of the debtor to the receiver by virtue of the wage assignment and court order, or otherwise; and the debtor may make additional payments to the receiver. If the debtor is required by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction to pay money for the support and maintenance of dependents, then, upon the filing with the court of a certified copy of the order, the plan shall be modified to the extent required to comply with the order.

(b) In no case shall the plan provide for receipt by the debtor from the receiver or otherwise of an amount less than the minimum amount of the income of the debtor that is exempt from garnishment under the laws of this state or federal law.

(c) Subject both to § 10-18-10(e) on minimum amounts to be paid to certain secured creditors and to this section, the plan shall provide for the receiver to pay, to the extent of funds received by him or her, a pro rata share of the balance to each creditor on the basis of the amount of the claim of each creditor; provided, however, that claims of ten dollars ($10.00) or less may be paid in full.

(d) The plan shall provide that if the total amount available to be distributed is less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), the receiver may deposit the undistributed amount in a special trust account until the next distribution date that the total amount is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or more.

(e) Any money which is not called for by any creditor, or, if sent to a creditor, is returned undelivered and which remains in the possession of the receiver for more than six (6) months after these proceedings are dismissed, must be paid by the receiver to the other creditors in proportion to their unpaid obligations under the plan on the date these proceedings were dismissed, provided that no creditor is paid in excess of the full amount of his or her claim as of the date payment is made. If no such creditors exist, then the money shall be paid to the debtor.

(f) The court may, upon application of the debtor, the receiver, or any creditor, upon notice to all other parties, at any time or times during the pendency of these proceedings, increase or reduce the amount of the installment payments provided by the plan, or extend or shorten the time for any payments, or otherwise alter the provisions of the plan, where it shall be made to appear, after hearing, that the circumstances of the debtor so warrant or require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-14.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-14.1
§ 10-21-14.1. Stay in a temporary non-liquidating receivership.
Status: in_force

On appointment of a temporary non-liquidating receiver, the stay under § 10-21-14(a) is effective for the period that the court considers necessary, but not more than ninety (90) days. The court may extend the stay in increments of not more than thirty (30) days.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-2_10-5-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-2_10-5-2
§ 10-5-2. Procedure. [Effective until January 1, 2026.]10-5-2. Procedure. [Effective January 1, 2026.]
Status: in_force

(a) A court having jurisdiction over a defendant or his or her assets, including his or her personal estate or real estate, may authorize a plaintiff to attach the defendants assets, or any part thereof, after hearing on a motion to attach, notice of which has been given to the defendant as provided in this section. At the time of the commencement of the action, or at any time thereafter, a plaintiff must file a motion in the court having jurisdiction for authority to attach the defendants assets, including his or her personal or real estate, and the attachment motion must state the day, time and place of hearing and a copy must be served by the process server on the defendant or by leaving it at his or her last and usual place of abode with some person there at least five (5) days before the fixed date of hearing.

(b) If the defendant does not reside in the state, service of the attachment motion shall be made upon him or her by mailing a copy of the motion to attach, by certified mail, to his or her last known address and, if service is made in this manner, the plaintiff or his or her attorney must attach the senders receipt to an affidavit of compliance with this section by the plaintiff or his or her attorney and filing it with the case in the court.

(c) If the plaintiff after diligent search and by affidavit avers that he or she does not know of the defendants address, service on the defendant of the motion to attach may after order of the court be made by publication in some public newspaper, once, published in the town, city or county where the defendants assets are situated. If there is no public newspaper published in the town, city or county where the defendants assets are situated, then in some public newspaper published in the city of Providence. Provided, however, that in all actions where the plaintiffs claim against the defendant has been reduced to a judgment, the defendants assets, including his or her personal estate and real estate, may be attached and may be subject to trustee process as set out in chapter 17 of this title in the same action in which the judgment has been entered.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-5
§ 10-16-5. Rules of procedure.
Status: in_force

(a) The judges of the district court shall make such orders and rules as they deem necessary concerning the hearing and determination of small claims, including suitable forms of procedure in such cases.

(b) The chief judge of the district court shall be authorized to establish a system of mandatory mediation for all small claims actions other than actions relating to book accounts for a sum certain. The judges of the district court shall be authorized to make such rules as may be necessary for the establishment of said mandatory mediation system.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-29 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-29
§ 10-9-29. Rearrest of discharged person.
Status: in_force

No person who has been discharged upon a writ of habeas corpus shall be again imprisoned or restrained for the same cause, unless he or she is indicted or charged by information therefor or convicted thereof, or committed for want of bail, by some court of record having jurisdiction of the cause, or unless, after a discharge for defect of proof or for some material in the commitment in a criminal case, he or she shall be again arrested on sufficient proof, and committed by legal process, for the same offense.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-12
§ 10-4-12. Appeal to supreme court  Certification of questions.
Status: in_force

Any party aggrieved by a decision or order of the superior court upon any question arising in any proceedings under this chapter may appeal to the supreme court by claiming the appeal in writing filed with the clerk at any time within thirty (30) days after the entry of the decision or order; and also the court may at once certify any question to the supreme court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-3
§ 10-6-3. Right of contribution declared.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in § 10-6-7, the right of contribution exists among joint tortfeasors; provided however, that when there is a disproportion of fault among joint tortfeasors, the relative degree of fault of the joint tortfeasors shall be considered in determining their pro rata shares.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-17
§ 10-21-17. Executory contract.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, timeshare interest means a time share as defined in § 34-41-1.02.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (h) of this section, with court approval, a receiver may adopt or reject an executory contract of the owner relating to receivership property. The court may condition the receivers adoption and continued performance of the contract on terms appropriate under the circumstances. If the receiver does not request court approval to adopt or reject the contract within a reasonable time after the receivers appointment, the receiver is deemed to have rejected the contract.

(c) A receivers performance of an executory contract before court approval of its adoption or rejection under subsection (b) of this section is not an adoption of the contract and does not preclude the receiver from seeking approval to reject the contract.

(d) A provision in an executory contract which requires or permits a forfeiture, modification, or termination of the contract because of the appointment of a receiver or the financial condition of the owner does not affect a receivers power under subsection (b) of this section to adopt the contract.

(e) A receivers right to possess or use receivership property pursuant to an executory contract terminates on rejection of the contract under subsection (b) of this section. Rejection is a breach of the contract effective immediately before appointment of the receiver. A claim for damages for rejection of the contract must be submitted by the later of:

(1) The time set for submitting a claim in the receivership; or

(2) Thirty (30) days after the court approves the rejection.

(f) If at the time a receiver is appointed, the owner has the right to assign an executory contract relating to receivership property under the law of this state other than this chapter, the receiver may assign the contract with court approval.

(g) If a receiver rejects under subsection (b) of this section an executory contract for the sale of receivership property that is real property in possession of the purchaser or a real-property timeshare interest, the purchaser may:

(1) Treat the rejection as a termination of the contract, and in that case the purchaser has a lien on the property for the recovery of any part of the purchase price the purchaser paid; or

(2) Retain the purchasers right to possession under the contract, and in that case the purchaser shall continue to perform all obligations arising under the contract and may offset any damages caused by nonperformance of an obligation of the owner after the date of the rejection, but the purchaser has no right or claim against other receivership property or the receiver on account of the damages.

(h) A receiver may not reject an unexpired lease of real property under which the owner is the landlord if:

(1) The tenant occupies the leased premises as the tenants primary residence;

(2) The receiver was appointed at the request of a person other than a mortgagee; or

(3) The receiver was appointed at the request of a mortgagee and:

(i) The lease is superior to the lien of the mortgage;

(ii) The tenant has an enforceable agreement with the mortgagee or the holder of a senior lien under which the tenants occupancy will not be disturbed as long as the tenant performs its obligations under the lease;

(iii) The mortgagee has consented to the lease, either in a signed record or by its failure timely to object that the lease violated the mortgage; or

(iv) The terms of the lease were commercially reasonable at the time the lease was agreed to and the tenant did not know or have reason to know that the lease violated the mortgage.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-39 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-39
§ 10-5-39. Charges for attested copies restricted to charge for one person.
Status: in_force

The officer to whom a writ of attachment shall be directed, commanding the attachment of different kinds of property, shall be entitled to charge for only one attested copy of the writ for any one person with whom the copy is required to be left.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-9
§ 10-11-9. Commitment of principal surrendered before judgment.
Status: in_force

If the principal shall be so surrendered by his or her bail to the court in which the original action is pending, he or she shall be by such court committed to a correctional institution, and there remain to be taken in execution or to be discharged in the same manner as though committed for want of bail in the first instance, and he or she shall remain in the institution in like manner if committed by his or her bail before final judgment be rendered in the action.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-14-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-14 / Section 10-14-2
§ 10-14-2. Issues determinable in proceedings in nature of quo warranto  Parties.
Status: in_force

In any proceeding upon writ of quo warranto, or by information or by petition in the nature of quo warranto, the court may determine the title of the relator or petitioner as well as that of the respondent; and in any such proceeding, all or any persons claiming the same office by whatever title, or claiming different offices depending upon the same election or appointment, may be made parties, and their respective rights may be ascertained and determined; and the court may consolidate for the purposes of healing and adjudication all such proceedings if brought separately.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-6
§ 10-7-6. Executor or administrator to bring § 10-7-5 action  Amount recovered to estate.
Status: in_force

Every action under § 10-7-5 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 the amount recovered in every action under § 10-7-5 shall go to the decedents estate and become part of the estate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-4
§ 10-3-4. Petition for arbitration  Service, hearing, and reference.
Status: in_force

The party aggrieved by the alleged failure, neglect, or refusal of another to perform under a written agreement for arbitration may petition the superior court for the county in which any of the parties reside or has their place of business for an order directing that the arbitration proceed in the manner provided for in the agreement. If there are multiple parties seeking arbitration against the same party or parties, the proceeding may be brought in any court and county where any of the parties seeking arbitration resides or is doing business or where the arbitration was held or is pending. Five (5) days notice in writing of the application shall be served upon the party in default. Service thereof shall be made in the manner provided by law for the service of a writ of summons. The court shall hear the parties, and upon being satisfied that the making of the agreement for arbitration or the failure to comply therewith is not in issue, the court shall make an order directing the parties to proceed to arbitration in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-13.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-13.1
§ 10-21-13.1. Owners duties in temporary non-liquidating receivership.
Status: in_force

Unless the court orders otherwise, the owner shall:

(1) Develop an operating plan and any modifications to the plan that the temporary non-liquidating receiver may propose;

(2) Obtain court approval of the operating plan; and

(3) Timely perform the owners duties under the operating plan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-2-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / Section 10-2-4
§ 10-2-4. Judgment on auditors award.
Status: in_force

Whenever the auditors appointed in any case shall have made their report or award concerning the matter submitted to them to the court from whence they shall have received their appointment, if no legal cause shall be shown for setting aside the auditors award or report, judgment shall be rendered in conformity thereto, and also for costs, including such reasonable allowance to the auditors for their services as the court shall judge proper to make, and the reasonable compensation to the auditors shall be paid by the party in whose favor final judgment shall be rendered before he or she shall have execution on the courts judgment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-10
§ 10-16-10. Amendment of statements  Informality of proceedings  Evidence.
Status: in_force

The court may at any time after such notice and upon such terms as it shall determine allow any claim or answer to be amended. No formal pleadings other than the statement of their respective claims in writing shall be necessary to define the issue between the parties, and the hearing of all such causes shall be informal with the sole object of dispensing speedy and final justice between the parties. The witnesses in the hearings shall be sworn and depositions may be used at the hearing, provided the depositions have been taken according to law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-15
§ 10-21-15. Engagement and compensation of professional.
Status: in_force

(a) With court approval, a receiver may engage an attorney, accountant, appraiser, auctioneer, broker, or other professional to assist the receiver in performing a duty or exercising a power of the receiver. The receiver shall disclose to the court:

(1) The identity and qualifications of the professional;

(2) The scope and nature of the proposed engagement;

(3) Any potential conflict of interest; and

(4) The proposed compensation.

(b) A person is not disqualified from engagement under this section solely because of the persons engagement by, representation of, or other relationship with the receiver, a creditor, or a party. This chapter does not prevent the receiver from serving in the receivership as an attorney, accountant, auctioneer, or broker when authorized by law.

(c) A receiver or professional engaged under subsection (a) of this section shall file with the court an itemized statement of the time spent, work performed, and billing rate of each person that performed the work and an itemized list of expenses. The receiver shall pay the amount approved by the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-16
§ 10-5-16. Surrender of attached goods on defendants bond.
Status: in_force

Every officer having goods and chattels attached by him or her in his or her custody shall surrender the goods and chattel, at any time after the attachment, and before final judgment or decree, to the person whose interest in the goods and chattel has been attached, or from whose possession they have been taken, upon being tendered a bond by the defendant or someone in his or her behalf, with sufficient surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the officer, in double the value of the goods and chattels so attached, the value to be determined by the sworn appraisal of any two (2) or three (3) persons, one chosen by the director of the department of public safety and one by the defendant or his or her attorney, and the third by the creditor or his or her attorney, or in the penal sum of the amount of damages stated in the writ, with condition that the bond shall be null and void if, at any time after final judgment or decree rendered in the action or cause in which the attachment shall have been made, upon request therefor, the appraised value of the goods and chattels shall be paid, or the goods and chattels shall, in as good order and condition as when surrendered, be returned to the officer taking the bond, or to any officer who shall be charged with the service of an execution issued upon the judgment or decree rendered in the action or cause, unless the judgment or decree shall have been paid, or shall be immediately paid, together with the costs upon the execution, upon the making of the request for the return of the goods and chattels or the payment of their appraised value.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-15-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / Section 10-15-4
§ 10-15-4. Termination of receivership on notice by parties.
Status: in_force

A receivership shall terminate upon notice in writing to the receiver by all the parties interested or their duly authorized agents or legal representatives.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-21
§ 10-5-21. Filing of officers account  Certification.
Status: in_force

The disclosure made by virtue of § 10-5-20 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 of the disclosure 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 the copy of the fact and date of filing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-5
§ 10-21-5. Power of court.
Status: in_force

The court that appoints a receiver under this chapter has exclusive jurisdiction to direct the receiver and determine any controversy related to the receivership or receivership property.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-5
§ 10-10-5. Exemption of voters at time of elections.
Status: in_force

No person entitled to vote shall be liable to arrest upon any civil process on the days of election of city or town officers, of state officers, representatives in congress, or of electors of president and vice-president of the United States, or on the day preceding or on the day following the election.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-28 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-28
§ 10-5-28. Proceeds of sale of mortgaged property.
Status: in_force

Upon any sale as provided in § 10-5-27, the attaching officer shall first apply so much of the proceeds of the sale as may be necessary to pay the amount for which the property was mortgaged, with such deduction for interest for the anticipated payment, or allowance for damages for the anticipated payment, as may be allowed by the justice directing the sale; and the officer shall pay only the balance into the registry of the court for the purposes of the attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-7
§ 10-6-7. Effect of release of one tortfeasor on liability of others.
Status: in_force

(1) A release by the injured person of one joint tortfeasor, whether before or after judgment, does not discharge the other tortfeasors unless the release so provides; but reduces the claim against the other tortfeasors in the amount of the consideration paid for the release.

(2) A release by the injured person of one joint tortfeasor relieves that tortfeasor from liability to make contribution to another joint tortfeasor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-13
§ 10-7-13. Severability.
Status: in_force

If a court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge to be invalid or unconstitutional any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter, the judgment or decree shall not affect, impair, invalidate or nullify the remainder of this chapter, but the effect of the courts adjudication shall be confined to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter so adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-7
§ 10-3-7. Manner of making and hearing applications.
Status: in_force

Any application to the court under this chapter shall be made and heard in the manner provided by law for the making and hearing of motions, except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-22
§ 10-3-22. Right to representation.
Status: in_force

A party has the right to be represented by an attorney and may claim such right at any time as to any part of the arbitration or hearings that have not taken place. This right may not be waived. If a party is represented by an attorney, papers to be served on the party shall be served upon the partys attorney. Any agreement that discriminates against or penalizes a party for retaining the services of counsel in an arbitration is null and void.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-21.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-21.1
§ 10-21-21.1. Emergency declaration receivership program coordinator.
Status: in_force

The presiding justice of the superior court may appoint an individual to serve as program coordinator to identify and coordinate sources for funding, legal services, accounting services, and other appropriate services for temporary non-liquidating receiverships. The individual must have appropriate qualifications for the position and shall serve at the pleasure of the presiding justice. The program coordinator is not a judicial officer, but may be sued personally for an act or omission in performing his or her duties only with the approval of the presiding justice. On application to the presiding justice after notice and opportunity for hearing, the program coordinator may be awarded reasonable compensation through an equitable charge on receivership property in temporary non-liquidating receiverships.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-2
§ 10-1-2. Filing of action  Application for temporary injunction.
Status: in_force

The action shall be filed in the superior court of the county in which the nuisance is alleged to exist. Upon the filing of the action, application for a temporary injunction may be made to any justice of the superior court, and the justice shall order process to issue for a hearing to be held on the application within twenty (20) days thereafter. If the court shall not be in session in the county for which the action is filed on the date for the hearing, the process shall be made returnable to the court at Providence and the hearing shall be held at Providence, unless otherwise agreed by the parties or ordered by the court. Notice of the time and place of the hearing of the application for a temporary injunction shall be served upon the defendants named in the complaint at least three (3) days before the hearing. The hearing shall have precedence over all matters upon the docket.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-7
§ 10-17-7. Amount with which trustee charged  Action against trustee.
Status: in_force

If the accounts filed by any trustee in accordance with § 10-17-2 shall disclose that the trustee is holding any wages or personal estate of the defendant, then the trustee shall be charged to the amount disclosed, if less than the judgment or decree, otherwise to the amount of the judgment or decree. At the discretion of the court, an order may be entered allowing a partial charge of those funds. However, no such order shall be entered in the same case more than once in a three (3) month period of time. The plaintiff, after having recovered judgment or decree against the defendant, may bring his or her action against the trustee to recover the amount for which he or she is charged, with interest and costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-12
§ 10-6-12. Court-approved settlements.
Status: in_force

The following provisions apply solely and exclusively to judicially approved good-faith settlements of claims relating to the Feld Entertainment/Ringling Brothers Circus accident on May 4, 2014.

(a) A release by a claimant of one joint tortfeasor, whether before or after judgment, does not discharge the other joint tortfeasors unless the release so provides, but such release shall reduce the claim against the other joint tortfeasors in the amount of the consideration paid for the release.

(b) A release by a claimant of one joint tortfeasor relieves them from liability to make a contribution to another joint tortfeasor.

(c) For purposes of this section, a good-faith settlement is one that does not exhibit collusion, fraud, dishonesty, or other wrongful or tortious conduct intended to prejudice the non-settling tortfeasor(s), irrespective of the settling or non-settling tortfeasors proportionate share of liability.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-9
§ 10-13-9. Certificate of justice as to oath.
Status: in_force

The oath being administered and taken by the prisoner, the justice shall deliver to him or her a certificate thereof under, his or her hand and seal, in the following form:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-14
§ 10-17-14. Liability of trustee for false answers.
Status: in_force

Any person summoned as trustee of a defendant, making a false answer or affidavit in any case, shall be liable to the plaintiff in a civil action for any damages which may result to him or her from the false answer or affidavit.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-30 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-30
§ 10-9-30. Judicial powers not restrained.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to restrain the power of the supreme or superior court, or any one of the justices thereof, to issue a writ of habeas corpus at their discretion, and thereupon to bail any person for whatsoever cause he or she may be committed or restrained, or to discharge him or her, as law and justice shall require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-11
§ 10-11-11. Discharge of principal on failure to take execution.
Status: in_force

If the principal be not taken in execution within thirty (30) days after final judgment against him or her when committed for want of bail, or when committed by his or her bail or by the court to which his or her bail shall have surrendered him or her before such final judgment, or within thirty (30) days after he or she shall have been committed by his or her bail or by the court to which his or her bail shall have surrendered him or her, pending action against his or her bail, such principal shall be discharged from the correctional institution upon payment of prison fees. In computing the periods of time provided in this section, time during which execution is stayed shall not be included.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-11
§ 10-16-11. Vacation of decisions or orders  Order of new hearing.
Status: in_force

The court may at any time upon motion, and after such notice, by mail or otherwise as it may order for cause shown, vacate any decision, order or judgment entered by it under this procedure for want of actual notice to a party, for error, or for any other cause that the court may deem sufficient, and may stay or vacate execution, and may order a new hearing, upon such terms, costs, and conditions as the court shall deem just and proper.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-14
§ 10-21-14. Stay  Injunction.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section or ordered by the court, an order appointing a receiver operates as a stay, applicable to all persons, of an act, action, or proceeding:

(1) To obtain possession of, exercise control over, or enforce a judgment against receivership property; and

(2) To enforce a lien against receivership property to the extent the lien secures a claim against the owner which arose before entry of the order.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, the court may enjoin an act, action, or proceeding against or relating to receivership property if the injunction is necessary to protect the property or facilitate administration of the receivership.

(c) A person whose act, action, or proceeding is stayed or enjoined under this section may apply to the court for relief from the stay or injunction for cause.

(d) An order under subsection (a) or (b) of this section does not operate as a stay or injunction of:

(1) An act, action, or proceeding to perfect, or maintain or continue the perfection of, an interest in receivership property;

(2) Commencement or continuation of a criminal proceeding;

(3) Commencement or continuation of an action or proceeding, or enforcement of a judgment other than a money judgment in an action or proceeding, by a governmental unit to enforce its police or regulatory power;

(4) Establishment by a governmental unit of a tax liability against the owner or receivership property or an appeal of the liability; or

(5) Exercise of rights of a party to a swap agreement, securities contract, repurchase agreement, commodity contract, forward contract, or master netting agreement, as those terms are defined in the federal Bankruptcy Code, to the extent that a court would not have the power to stay the exercise if the defendant were a debtor under the Bankruptcy Code.

(e) The court may void an act that violates a stay or injunction under this section.

(f) If a person knowingly violates a stay or injunction under this section, the court may:

(1) Award actual damages caused by the violation, reasonable attorneys fees, and costs; and

(2) Sanction the violation as civil contempt.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-11
§ 10-3-11. Order confirming award.
Status: in_force

At any time within one year after the award is made, any party to the arbitration may apply to the court for an order confirming the award, and thereupon the court must grant the order confirming the award unless the award is vacated, modified or corrected, as prescribed in §§ 10-3-12  10-3-14. Notice in writing of the application shall be served upon the adverse party or his or her attorney ten (10) days before the hearing on the application.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-12
§ 10-13-12. Responsibility of warden for property  Assignment to or on direction of creditor.
Status: in_force

No warden of any institution receiving an assignment under § 10-13-7 shall be held responsible to any person for any property of any assignor, except such as he or she has actually received into his or her possession; provided, that he or she shall assign all the interest he or she shall obtain thereby to the committing creditor, if a resident of this state, on his or her request, or to such person, being a resident thereof, as the creditor shall name, to be held by the creditor or person, his or her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, for the purposes and trusts set forth in the deed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-1
§ 10-9-1. General right to writ.
Status: in_force

Every person imprisoned in any correctional institution or otherwise restrained of his or her liberty, other than persons imprisoned or restrained pursuant to a final judgment entered in a criminal proceeding, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, according to the provisions of this chapter, to obtain relief from the imprisonment or restraint, if it shall prove to be unlawful.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-8
§ 10-16-8. Default by plaintiff  Prevention of abuse of procedure by claimants.
Status: in_force

(a) If the plaintiff does not appear at the time set for the hearing, the court may dismiss the claim and action for want of prosecution, or enter judgment for the defendant for his or her costs, or make such other disposition of the case as may be proper.

(b) If the clerk shall find that the procedure provided by this chapter is sought to be utilized by a claimant for purposes of oppression or harassment, as where the claimant has previously resorted to such procedure on the same claim and has been unsuccessful after hearing thereon, the clerk may in his or her discretion compel the claimant to make application to the court for leave to prosecute the claim under this chapter. The court upon such application shall inquire into the circumstances and, if it shall find that the claim has already been adjudicated, or that the claim is sought to be brought on solely for purposes of oppression or harassment and not under color of right, it may make an order denying the claimant the availability of the procedure provided by this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-24 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-24
§ 10-13-24. Assignment for benefit of creditors upon administration of oath.
Status: in_force

Whenever the oath as provided in this chapter shall be administered to any defendant, under the provisions of §§ 10-13-14  10-13-23 he or she shall then and there make an assignment of all his or her estate, real and personal, not exempted from attachment by law, to some responsible inhabitant of this state, his or her heirs and assigns, to be approved by the magistrate administering the oath, in trust for the benefit of all his or her creditors in proportion to their demands, and a copy of the assignment shall be filed by the assignee in the office of the clerk of the court issuing the execution.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-4
§ 10-6-4. Payment as prerequisite  Limitation of actions.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in § 10-6-7, a joint tortfeasor is not entitled to a final money judgment for contribution until he or she has by payment discharged the common liability or has paid more than his or her pro rata share of the final money judgment. Actions for contribution shall be commenced not later than one year next after the first payment made by a joint tortfeasor which has discharged the common liability or is more than his or her pro rata share thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-27 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-27
§ 10-9-27. Transfer or concealment of prisoner with intent to avoid writ.
Status: in_force

Every person who shall have in custody or under his or her power any person entitled to any writ of habeas corpus, whether any writ has issued or not, and who shall, with intent to elude the service of a writ of habeas corpus or to avoid the effect of a writ of habeas corpus, transfer the prisoner to the custody, or place him or her under the power or control, of any other person, or conceal him or her, or change the place of his or her confinement, shall forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved thereby one thousand dollars ($1,000).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-31 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-31
§ 10-9-31. Power of justices to admit to bail.
Status: in_force

Whenever any person is committed to a correctional institution on any criminal accusation for want of bail, any justice of the supreme or superior court, or any person specially appointed by either of the courts, may admit him or her to bail in like manner as might have been done by the court or magistrate who committed him or her, and the supreme or superior court justices respectively shall have power to issue a writ of habeas corpus and to cause the prisoner to be brought before them, whenever it shall be necessary for the purpose expressed in this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-1
§ 10-7-1. Liability for damages for causing death.
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, 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 § 10-5-8_10-5-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-8_10-5-8
§ 10-5-8. Garnishment of wages restricted to amounts not exempt  Child support to have priority. [Effective until January 1, 2026.]10-5-8. Garnishment of wages restricted to amounts not exempt  Child support to have priority. [Effective January 1, 2026.]
Status: in_force

(a) Any writ of attachment, served as a writ of garnishment for the attachment of the personal estate of the defendant in the hand and possession of any employer of the defendant, shall be effective to attach so much only of such personal estate consisting of the salary or wages due and payable to the defendant, or to become in the future due and payable to the defendant, as is in excess of the amount of the defendants salary or wages exempt by law from attachment. And the garnishee, being the defendants employer, shall be required to make affidavit and shall be held liable for the defendants personal estate consisting of the salary or wages due and payable to the defendant or to become in the future due and payable to the defendant only in respect of the excess amount exempt from attachment. Any writ of garnishment served under the provisions of this section shall state the judgment amount, and the employer shall withhold sums not exempt by law until the amount of withholding equals the amount of the judgment. The employer shall be entitled to the sum of five dollars ($5.00), payable directly from the employee to the employer, for each writ of garnishment served upon the employer regarding any employee.

(b) Subject to any federal or state law to the contrary, any garnishment of wages for child support issued pursuant to § 15-5-25, and any wage assignment pursuant to § 15-5-24, or chapter 16 of title 15 shall take priority over any garnishment issued in accordance with this section. This priority shall occur whether or not the garnishment or assignment pursuant to § 15-5-24 or 15-5-25 or chapter 16 of title 15 occurs before or after any garnishment pursuant to this section. In addition, consistent with federal and state law, the state court system may develop a system for the collection of court imposed or assessed fines, costs, fees or other assessments, including restitution, through wage assignment procedures.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-9
§ 10-17-9. Satisfaction by trustee after judgment against defendant.
Status: in_force

Any trustee, after final judgment or decree against the defendant, may satisfy the judgment or decree, or any part thereof, to the amount of the estate attached in his or her hands, before any suit shall be brought against him or her therefor; and such payment shall avail for his or her discharge, as against both plaintiff and defendant, for the amount thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-14
§ 10-10-14. Board payments as costs.
Status: in_force

The amount thus paid by the creditor, for the board of the prisoner so imprisoned at his or her suit, shall be added to and form a part of the costs of commitment and detention; and as such costs, shall be paid by the prisoner in the then existing or any future proceedings which may be lawfully instituted against him or her for the recovery of the debt and costs of the suit against him or her.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-11
§ 10-5-11. Service of writ on defendant.
Status: in_force

The officer making the attachment shall serve the defendant, as provided in applicable procedural rules, with a copy of the writ, having indorsed on the writ a general reference to the class or kind of goods and chattels so attached, together with a statement of the place in which they were found, and of the date and time of day of the attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-23 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-23
§ 10-9-23. Enforcement of writ by attachment as for contempt.
Status: in_force

If any person to whom a writ of habeas corpus shall be directed shall refuse to receive the writ or shall neglect to obey and execute it according to the provisions of this chapter and no sufficient excuse shall be shown for his or her refusal or neglect, the court before which the writ is returnable shall proceed immediately, by process of attachment as for a contempt, to compel obedience to the writ and to punish the person guilty of the contempt.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-23 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-23
§ 10-13-23. Certificate as to oath  Certificate of discharge.
Status: in_force

The justice administering the oath as provided in § 10-13-7, pursuant to the provisions of § 10-13-21, shall give a certificate to that effect, under his or her hand and seal, to the defendant. In all cases the justice who commences the examination under the provisions of this chapter shall alone have the power to sign and seal the certificate of discharge.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-1
§ 10-13-1. Application to take poor debtors oath.
Status: in_force

Except as is otherwise provided by § 10-13-2, any person who shall be imprisoned for debt whether on a writ of arrest issued at the commencement of an action, mesne process, or execution, or on execution awarded against him or her as defendant in any action to recover the possession of land or trespass to land, in which title to the land was in dispute between the parties, may complain to the justice of any district court in the county where the person shall be committed that he or she has no estate, real or personal, wherewith to support himself or herself in a correctional institution or to pay institution charges and may request to be admitted to take the poor debtors oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-2
§ 10-20-2. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given them in this section:

(1) Environmental control agency shall mean any state agency which is empowered to protect, preserve, or enhance the natural resources of the state which includes, but is not limited to, the department of environmental management, the department of health, coastal resources management council, public utilities commission, the statewide planning program, and the water resources board.

(2) Environmental quality standard shall mean any statute, ordinance, limitation, regulation, rule, order, license, stipulation, agreement, or permit of the state or any instrumentality, agency, or political subdivision thereof.

(3) Natural resources shall include, but not be limited to, all mineral, animal, botanical, air, water, land, timber, soil, quietude, and recreational resources.

(4) Nonresident individual means any natural person, or his or her personal representative, who is not domiciled or residing in the state when suit is commenced.

(5) Person means any natural person, any state, municipality, or other governmental or political subdivision or other public agency or instrumentality, any public or private corporation, any partnership, firm, association, or other organization, any receiver, trustee, assignee, agent, or other legal representative of any of the foregoing, and any other entity.

(6) Pollution, impairment, or destruction is any conduct by any person which violates, or is likely to violate, any environmental quality standard which was issued prior to the date the alleged violation occurred or is likely to occur or any conduct which materially adversely affects or is likely to materially adversely affect the environment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-8
§ 10-3-8. Arbitrators hearing  Summons of witnesses.
Status: in_force

When more than one arbitrator is agreed to, all the arbitrators shall sit at the hearing of the case, unless, by consent in writing, all parties shall agree to proceed with the hearing with a less number. The arbitrators selected either as prescribed in this chapter or otherwise, or a majority of them, may summon in writing any person, to attend before them or any of them as a witness, and in a proper case to bring with him, her, or them any book, record, document or paper, which may be deemed material as evidence in the case. The fees for such attendance shall be the same as the fees of witnesses in the superior court. The summons shall issue in the name of the arbitrator or arbitrators, or a majority of them, and shall be signed by the arbitrator or arbitrators, or a majority of them, and shall be directed to the person to be summoned and shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas to appear and testify before superior court. If any person or persons, so summoned to testify, shall refuse or neglect to obey the summons, upon petition the court may compel the attendance of the person or persons before the arbitrator or arbitrators or punish the person or persons for contempt, in the same manner now provided for securing the attendance of witnesses or their punishment for neglect or refusal to attend superior court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-10
§ 10-3-10. Form and signature of arbitrators award.
Status: in_force

The award must be in writing and must be signed by the arbitrators or by a majority of them.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-1
§ 10-11-1. Bail taken by arresting officer.
Status: in_force

Every officer who shall so arrest any person pursuant to chapter 10 of this title, shall let the person arrested to bail, upon his or her giving sufficient surety for his or her appearance at the court to which such writ or process shall be returnable and to abide the final judgment which shall be rendered thereon.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-43 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-43
§ 10-5-43. Prerequisites to dismissal of receivership.
Status: in_force

If an attachment has been dissolved in the manner provided in § 10-5-42, the proceedings for the appointment of a receiver shall not thereafter be dismissed and the receiver discharged, until all the assets which have come into his or her hands as receiver have been fully distributed or the claim upon which the attachment was made has been fully paid and discharged, unless the debtor, before the dismissal, deposits with the clerk of the court to which the original writ or writ of mesne process was returnable, such amount of money as the court before which the receivership proceedings are pending, after notice to the attaching creditor and a hearing, finds reasonable for the protection of his or her claim in the action in which the attachment was made. The clerk shall pay, from the amount so deposited, to the plaintiff, if final judgment or decree is in his or her favor, so much of the money as may be required to satisfy his or her execution and shall pay the balance, if any, to the defendant, and if judgment or decree in the action or cause is for defendant, in such 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 § 10-1-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-4
§ 10-1-4. Application of rules of equity.
Status: in_force

Proceedings under this chapter shall follow the usual and accepted rules of equity, except as provided in this chapter or otherwise provided by statute or rule of court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-3
§ 10-10-3. Form of writ from district court.
Status: in_force

An original writ of arrest issued from a district court shall be substantially in the following form:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-12
§ 10-7-12. Applicability to actions commenced after passage.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to all actions for death by wrongful act commenced after May 26, 1971.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-4
§ 10-16-4. Filing fee  Waiver of appeal.
Status: in_force

(a) The plaintiff shall pay into the court an entry fee of fifty-five dollars ($55.00), of which twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be placed in a small claims mediation restricted-receipt account together with an amount equal to the then-prevailing postal rate, for mailing notices in the case, which shall be deemed the beginning of the action. The small claims mediation restricted-receipt account shall be established under the control of the state court director of finance; the chief judge of the district court shall be authorized to pay for the services of qualified mediators and other related expenses from the small claims mediation restricted-receipt account. In addition to the entry fee, the court shall apply a technology surcharge in accordance with § 8-15-11.

(b) The plaintiff shall also file with his or her claim a written waiver of right of appeal.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-14
§ 10-11-14. Action against bail in superior court based on district court judgment.
Status: in_force

The plaintiff in any suit in which judgment shall be rendered in the district court, and the amount of debt, costs and interest due upon the judgment of the district court shall exceed five thousand dollars ($5000), shall be entitled to maintain an action against the bail in the superior court for the county in which the judgment shall be rendered, in which action the proceedings shall be the same in all respects as if the judgment had been rendered in the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-3
§ 10-1-3. Temporary injunction  Enforcement.
Status: in_force

If it shall appear to the court at the hearing that the alleged nuisance exists, a temporary injunction shall issue enjoining any and all respondents from further maintaining or permitting the nuisance, and from removing any personal property from the place where the nuisance is alleged to exist. It shall be within the power of the court to require any and all respondents to furnish a bond in a given amount, with or without surety, within such time as the court shall direct, conditioned upon the due observance of the temporary injunction. Any violation of the temporary injunction or any condition thereof shall be contempt of court to be punished as provided in § 10-1-10.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-15
§ 10-13-15. Citation to show cause against oath by defendant.
Status: in_force

The defendant in such case may apply to the court in which the action is pending for a citation to the creditor to appear at the court to show cause why the defendant should not be admitted to take the oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-16.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-16.1
§ 10-21-16.1. Use or transfer of receivership property in a temporary non-liquidating receivership.
Status: in_force

The owner may use or transfer receivership property, by sale, lease, license, exchange or other disposition, only:

(1) With court approval; and

(2) After the court approves the operating plan, in accordance with the plan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-6
§ 10-1-6. Substitution of attorney general for original plaintiff  Costs against plaintiff.
Status: in_force

No action filed under § 10-1-1 shall be dismissed without the consent of the attorney general, and if the attorney general is of the opinion that the action ought not to be dismissed, he or she may be substituted for the original plaintiff and prosecute the case to a final decree. If the action is brought by a person other than the attorney general and the court finds that there is no reasonable ground therefor, costs shall be awarded against the plaintiff.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-3
§ 10-21-3. Notice and opportunity for hearing.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, the court may issue an order under this chapter only after notice and opportunity for a hearing appropriate in the circumstances.

(b) The court may issue an order under this chapter:

(1) Without prior notice if the circumstances require issuance of an order before notice is given;

(2) After notice and without a prior hearing if the circumstances require issuance of an order before a hearing is held; or

(3) After notice and without a hearing if no interested party timely requests a hearing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-19
§ 10-3-19. Appeal to supreme court.
Status: in_force

Any party aggrieved by any ruling or order made in any court proceeding as authorized in this chapter may obtain review as in any civil action, and upon the entry of any final order provided in § 10-3-3, or an order confirming, modifying or vacating an award, he or she may appeal to the supreme court as provided for appeals in civil actions, and the supreme court shall make such orders in the premises as the rights of the parties and the ends of justice require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-14-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-14 / Section 10-14-1
§ 10-14-1. Equity petition in supreme court.
Status: in_force

The title to any office, to determine which the writ of quo warranto lies at the common law, may be brought in question by petition to the supreme court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-16
§ 10-16-16. Appropriations for carrying out chapter.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the district court in carrying out the provisions of this chapter; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the necessary sums, or so much thereof as may be from time to time required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the chief clerk of the district court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-26 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-26
§ 10-5-26. Attachment of mortgaged personal property.
Status: in_force

Personal estate, when mortgaged and in the possession of the mortgagor, and while the estate is redeemable at law or in equity, may be attached on writ of attachment against the mortgagor, in the same manner as his or her other personal estate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-6
§ 10-9-6. Return to Providence superior court when other courts not in session.
Status: in_force

If the writ is returnable to the supreme court and the court is not in session upon the return of the writ, it shall be returned to, and action on the writ be had by the superior court at Providence. If returnable to the superior court for either Newport, Kent, or Washington county, and the court is not in session upon its return, it shall be returned to the superior court at Providence.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-4
§ 10-13-4. Service of citation on creditor.
Status: in_force

The citation shall be served on the creditor, his or her agent or attorney as provided in § 10-13-3, seven (7) days at least before the time appointed as provided in § 10-13-3, by reading the citation to him or her, or by leaving an attested copy with some person living at his or her last and usual place of abode, by a member of the division of sheriffs or either of the town sergeants or constables in the county in which the creditor, his or her agent or attorney, shall reside. If the creditor does not live or have any agent or attorney within this state, the service shall be made upon the creditor by any disinterested person.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-8
§ 10-18-8. Filing of the accepted plan with the secretary of state and its effect.
Status: in_force

(a) After the plan submitted by the receiver is approved by the court, it shall be filed by the clerk of the court with the secretary of state within twenty-one (21) days from the time of the original filing of the petition with the court. The filing shall have the following effect:

(1) Except as stated in § 10-18-11(b), all subsequent creditors shall be excluded from the plan.

(2) All prior creditors who have not been included in the plan shall be excluded from the plan unless the creditor, the receiver or the debtor makes application to the court within ten (10) days after the filing of the plan with the secretary of state.

(b) All unsecured creditors excluded from the plan by force of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section must wait until the dismissal of these proceedings before collecting upon their claims. Secured creditors rights are determined by §§ 10-18-10 and 10-18-11(c).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-10
§ 10-10-10. Validity of assignments made by prisoner.
Status: in_force

All assignments, transfers, and conveyances of property made by a debtor during his or her imprisonment, for the payment or security of any debt, except that of the committing creditor, shall be utterly void, unless made for the benefit of all his or her creditors in proportion to their respective demands.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-11
§ 10-17-11. Delivery of money to court before judgment.
Status: in_force

If it shall appear by the disclosure that the personal estate in the hands of the trustee belonging to the defendant consisted of money, the trustee, at any time before final judgment, may deliver the money to the clerk of the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-14
§ 10-16-14. Appeals by defendant.
Status: in_force

(a) The defendant, if aggrieved by the decision of the district court in a cause brought under the provisions of this chapter, shall have the same right of appeal, and under the same terms and conditions, as are provided under the practice in ordinary civil actions in district courts.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in cases in which the plaintiff is the purchaser of a consumer product seeking to recover damages against the seller and/or manufacturer of that product, if the defendant is defaulted for failure to answer and defend the claim, the judgment of the district court shall be final. In such event, the defendant shall be deemed to have forfeited all rights to appeal and shall not be entitled to a trial de novo in superior court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-6
§ 10-16-6. Notations in docket  Refusal or return undelivered of notice to defendant.
Status: in_force

The clerk shall note in the docket or in the papers of the case the mailing date of the notice and the address of the defendant. Notice shall be valid although refused by the defendant, and therefore not delivered. If the notice is returned undelivered without refusal by the defendant, or if in any other way it appears that notice has not reached the defendant, the clerk shall issue at the expense of the plaintiff such further or other notice to appear for hearing at such time as the court may order.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-4
§ 10-21-4. Scope  Exclusions.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) or (c) of this section, this chapter applies to a receivership for an interest in any one or more of the following:

(1) Real property and any personal property related to or used in operating the real property; or

(2) Personal property and fixtures.

(b) This chapter does not apply to a receivership for an interest in real property improved by one to four (4) dwelling units unless:

(1) The interest is used for agricultural, commercial, industrial, or mineral-extraction purposes, other than incidental uses by an owner occupying the property as the owners primary residence;

(2) The interest secures an obligation incurred at a time when the property was used or planned for use for agricultural, commercial, industrial, or mineral-extraction purposes;

(3) The owner planned or is planning to develop the property into one or more dwelling units to be sold or leased in the ordinary course of the owners business; or

(4) The owner is collecting or has the right to collect rents or other income from the property from a person other than an affiliate of the owner.

(c) This chapter does not apply to a receivership authorized by law of this state other than this chapter in which the receiver is a governmental unit or an individual acting in an official capacity on behalf of the unit except to the extent provided by the other law.

(d) This chapter does not limit the authority of a court to appoint a receiver under law of this state other than this chapter.

(e) Unless displaced by a particular provision of this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-16
§ 10-18-16. Termination of the plan.
Status: in_force

(a) If any payment provided by the plan to be made to the receiver by or on behalf of the debtor is in default or if the debtor has otherwise violated the provisions of this chapter or of the plan, the receiver or any creditor may, and if the default shall have continued for a period of more than thirty (30) days the receiver shall, report the matter to the court. The receiver shall submit a report and his or her recommendations to the court and the court may terminate the plan.

(b) If the addition of any prior creditor included in the plan by reason of the provision in § 10-18-8(a)(2) or of any subsequent creditor by reason of § 10-18-11(a) and (b) shall make continuation of the plan unfeasible, the court may, upon petition of the debtor, the receiver, or any creditor, with notice to all other parties, and upon a hearing, terminate these proceedings.

(c) If the debtor makes preferential payments to creditors participating in the plan during the pendency of the proceedings or appears for any reason to be abusing the privileges of this chapter, the receiver shall promptly report the matter to the court and the court may terminate the plan. If the court finds that preferential payments have been made to those creditors participating in the plan, it shall order those creditors who had received a preferential payment to pay over the amount of the preferential payment to the receiver who shall apply it to reduce the debtors indebtedness under the plan pro rata, among all creditors participating in the plan. A preferential payment is any payment to a creditor participating in the plan which is, at the time of the payment, in excess of what he or she is entitled to under the plan.

(d) If the plan is terminated prior to completion of the plan, the court shall award a reasonable fee to the receiver which shall be preferred to all other claims against the debtor, except federal or state obligations.

(e) In deciding whether or not to terminate a wage earner receivership plan, whenever the discretion is given, the court shall consider the following criteria:

(1) The feasibility of the plan; whether in light of the debtors income and the size of the debt incurred it is reasonable for the debt to be paid off on an amortized basis within the time remaining in the plan;

(2) The knowledge which subsequent creditors had, or should have had, when they extended credit of the prior debts of the debtor;

(3) The knowledge which subsequent creditors had, or should have had, when they extended credit, of the insolvency of the debtor;

(4) The intent of the debtor to abuse the plan by unreasonably incurring debts which, if included in the plan, would make the plan unfeasible;

(5) Prejudice to the interests of those creditors who have participated in the plan in not being able to collect their debts by those means proscribed by this chapter during the pendency of the plan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-3.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-3.1
§ 10-21-3.1. Administrative and procedural orders in temporary non-liquidating receivership.
Status: in_force

The general assembly acknowledges that:

(1) The presiding justice of the superior court may issue administrative orders governing the procedures in temporary non-liquidating receiverships.

(2) The business calendar justice to whom a temporary non-liquidating receivership has been assigned may issue procedural orders in the temporary non-liquidating receivership.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-14
§ 10-13-14. Administration of debtors oath pending original action.
Status: in_force

The court before which any action is pending for the recovery of any debt or demand for which the defendant, if committed to a correctional institution thereon, would be entitled to be admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-8, may administer the oath to the defendant as provided in this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-1.2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-1.2
§ 10-7-1.2. Liability for loss of consortium  Liability for loss of society and companionship.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the death of a married person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another person, the decedents spouse may recover damages against the person for loss of consortium and for the emotional distress, grief, and loss of enjoyment of life as a result of the death.

(b) Whenever the death of a parent or parents of a son or daughter shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another person, the son or daughter may recover damages against the person for the loss of parental society and companionship and for the emotional distress, grief, and loss of enjoyment of life as a result of the death.

(c) Whenever the death of a son or daughter shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another person, the parent or parents of the son or daughter may recover damages against the person for the loss of the sons or daughters society and companionship and for the emotional distress, grief, and loss of enjoyment of life as a result of the death.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-3
§ 10-20-3. Civil actions  Environmental advocate  Notice  Intervention.
Status: in_force

(a) Any city or town may maintain an action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any person to enforce, or to restrain the violation of, any environmental quality standard which is designed to prevent or minimize pollution, impairment, or destruction of the environment.

(b) Except in those instances where the conduct complained of constitutes a violation of an environmental quality standard which establishes a more specific standard for the control of pollution, impairment, or destruction of the environment, any city or town may maintain an action in any court of competent jurisdiction for declaratory and equitable relief against any other person for the protection of the environment, or the interest of the public therein, from pollution, impairment, or destruction.

(c) Within the department of attorney general there shall be an environmental advocate, to be appointed by the attorney general from among the assistant and special assistant attorneys general.

(d) The environmental advocate shall perform the following duties:

(1) Maintain and/or intervene in civil actions authorized by this chapter.

(2) Review periodically the procedures and environmental quality standards established by the state, or any instrumentality, agency, or subdivision thereof to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(3) Review complaints of persons and investigate those which appear to constitute a violation of environmental quality standards, or any provision of this chapter.

(4) Investigate and report to the director or person in charge of any state agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision any occurrences, conditions, or practices with respect to procedures, personnel, environmental quality standards, or facilities, which reflect inadequacies with reference to the provisions of this chapter.

(5) To take all possible action, including but not limited to programs of public education, legislative advocacy, and formal legal action, to secure and insure compliance with the provisions of this chapter and any promulgated environmental quality standards.

(e) No action may be commenced by a city or town pursuant to this act unless the municipality seeking to commence the suit shall, at least sixty (60) days prior to the commencement thereof, direct a written notice of the intention by certified mail to the environmental advocate, the appropriate environmental control agency or agencies, the governing body of the municipality in which the alleged conduct has or is likely to occur, and to the intended defendant; provided, however, that if the plaintiff can show that immediate and irreparable damage will probably result, the court may waive the foregoing requirement of notice.

(f) In any action maintained under this section, the environmental advocate may intervene as a matter of right and may appoint outside counsel where as a result of the intervention he or she may represent conflicting or adverse interests. Other interested parties may be permitted to intervene on such terms as the court may deem just and equitable in order to effectuate the purposes and policies set forth in § 10-20-1.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-23 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-23
§ 10-5-23. Release of stock or trust estate on acceptance of bond by officer.
Status: in_force

Upon the acceptance of the bond as described in § 10-5-22 by the officer, he or she shall immediately deliver to the person, co-partnership or corporation named as trustee in the writ, a certified copy of the writ, with an indorsement on the copy, signed by the officer, setting forth in the indorsement that he or she has accepted the bond and released the shares or personal estate in the hands or possession of the trustee from the attachment; and thereupon the shares or personal estate in the hands or possession of the trustee shall become discharged from the attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-8
§ 10-7-8. Cause surviving death of person liable.
Status: in_force

Any cause of action arising under §§ 10-7-5  10-7-8 and any action authorized by this chapter shall survive the death of any person liable for damages under the cause of action and may be originally brought against his or her executor or administrator or if brought against the 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 § 10-21-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-7
§ 10-21-7. Disqualification from appointment as receiver  Disclosure of interest.
Status: in_force

(a) The court may not appoint a person as receiver unless the person submits to the court a statement under penalty of perjury that the person is not disqualified.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, a person is disqualified from appointment as receiver if the person:

(1) Is an affiliate of a party;

(2) Has an interest materially adverse to an interest of a party;

(3) Has a material financial interest in the outcome of the action, other than compensation the court may allow the receiver;

(4) Has a debtor-creditor relationship with a party; or

(5) Holds an equity interest in a party, other than a noncontrolling interest in a publicly-traded company.

(c) A person is not disqualified from appointment as receiver solely because the person:

(1) Was appointed receiver or is owed compensation in an unrelated matter involving a party or was engaged by a party in a matter unrelated to the receivership;

(2) Is an individual obligated to a party on a debt that is not in default and was incurred primarily for personal, family, or household purposes; or

(3) Maintains with a party a deposit account as defined in § 6A-9-102(a)(29).

(d) A person seeking appointment of a receiver may nominate a person to serve as receiver, but the court is not bound by the nomination.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-10
§ 10-12-10. Limitation of actions on jail yard bond.
Status: in_force

No action shall be maintained for the breach of any bond given for the liberty of the jail yard as provided in § 10-12-2, unless the action is brought within one year after the time the breach was committed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-6
§ 10-17-6. Summons of garnishee as witness.
Status: in_force

(a) In any action where money or other property shall have been trusteed in the hands of a person, firm, or corporation, the person signing the garnishees answer may be summoned by either party at any time before final judgment and subjected to examination and cross-examination upon all matters relating to or connected with the facts set forth in the answer, and evidence may be introduced to contradict the testimony of that person.

(b) A person summoned as provided in subsection (a) shall be entitled to an attendance fee of three dollars ($3.00) and lawful mileage, and unless summoned in the manner set forth in subsection (a), the answer sworn to by a trustee shall be deemed true in deciding how far the trustee is chargeable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-12
§ 10-18-12. Claims brought to judgment  Priority in case of default.
Status: in_force

(a) All creditors (secured and unsecured, prior and subsequent, those included and those excluded from the plan) may bring their claims against the debtor to judgment.

(b) If these proceedings are terminated by dismissal, default, or otherwise:

(1) Any claim reduced to judgment by a subsequent creditor excluded from the plan shall be deemed to have been reduced to judgment one day after these proceedings are terminated.

(2) Any claim reduced to judgment by a prior creditor (whether included or excluded from the plan) or a subsequent creditor included in the plan within a reasonable time after termination of these proceedings shall be deemed to have been reduced to judgment as of the day these proceedings are terminated.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-13
§ 10-3-13. Rehearing after vacation of award.
Status: in_force

Where an award is vacated, and the time within which the agreement required the award to be made has not expired, the court may, in its discretion, direct a rehearing by the arbitrators.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-6
§ 10-12-6. Wardens responsibility on assignment.
Status: in_force

The warden receiving an assignment as provided in § 10-12-5 shall not be held responsible to any person for any property of any assignor, except such as he or she has actually received into his or her possession; provided, he or she shall assign all the interest he or she shall obtain thereby to the committing creditor, if a resident of this state, upon his or her request, or to such person, being a resident thereof, as the creditor shall name, to be held by the creditor or person so named, his or her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, for the purposes and uses set forth in the deed, and a record of the assignment and of the transfers shall be made by the warden.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-12
§ 10-9-12. Remand, bail, or commitment pending judgment.
Status: in_force

Until judgment is given, the court may remand the party, or may bail him or her to appear from day to day, or may commit him or her to a member of the division of sheriffs, or place him or her under such other care and custody as the circumstances of the case may require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-8
§ 10-21-8. Receivers bond  Alternative security.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a receiver shall post with the court a bond that:

(1) Is conditioned on the faithful discharge of the receivers duties;

(2) Has one or more sureties approved by the court;

(3) Is in an amount the court specifies; and

(4) Is effective as of the date of the receivers appointment.

(b) The court may approve the posting by a receiver with the court of alternative security, such as a letter of credit or deposit of funds. The receiver may not use receivership property as alternative security. Interest that accrues on deposited funds must be paid to the receiver on the receivers discharge.

(c) The court may authorize a receiver to act before the receiver posts the bond or alternative security required by this section.

(d) A claim against a receivers bond or alternative security must be made not later than one year after the date the receiver is discharged.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-26 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-26
§ 10-9-26. Precept after disobedience of writ.
Status: in_force

Upon the refusal or neglect of the person to whom the writ of habeas corpus is directed, the court may also issue a precept to any officer, or other person designated in the writ, commanding him or her to bring immediately before the court the person for whose benefit the writ of habeas corpus was issued, and the prisoner shall be thereupon discharged, bailed or remanded, in like manner as if he or she had been brought in upon the writ of habeas corpus.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-1
§ 10-21-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Rhode Island Commercial Receivership Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-2.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-2.1
§ 10-21-2.1. Additional definitions for emergency declaration temporary non-liquidating receivership.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) Emergency means a serious, dangerous, or unexpected situation that causes or potentially causes widespread or substantial loss of life, injury, damage, or public health concern for a significant number of persons or substantial loss of property, including a disaster as defined in § 30-15-3.

(2) Emergency declaration means a declaration of disaster emergency issued by the governor pursuant to § 30-15-9.

(3) Emergency declaration provisions means §§ 10-21-2.1, 10-21-3.1, 10-21-6.1, 10-21-12.1, 10-21-13.1, 10-21-14.1, 10-21-16.1, 10-21-19.1, 10-21-21.1, and 10-21-28.1.

(4) Temporary non-liquidating receiver means a receiver appointed under the emergency declaration provisions.

(5) Temporary non-liquidating receivership means a receivership in which a temporary non-liquidating receiver has been appointed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-2
§ 10-21-2. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) Affiliate means:

(i) With respect to an individual:

(A) A companion of the individual;

(B) A lineal ancestor or descendant, whether by blood or adoption of:

(I) The individual; or

(II) A companion of the individual;

(C) A companion of an ancestor or descendant described in § 10-21-2(1)(i)(B);

(D) A sibling, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, niece, nephew, grandniece, or grandnephew of the individual, whether related by the whole or the half blood or adoption, or a companion of any of them; or

(E) Any other individual occupying the residence of the individual; and

(ii) With respect to a person other than an individual:

(A) Another person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person;

(B) An officer, director, manager, member, partner, employee, or trustee or other fiduciary of the person; or

(C) A companion of, or an individual occupying the residence of, an individual described in §§ 10-21-2(1)(ii)(A) or (B).

(2) Collateral means the property subject to a lien.

(3) Companion means:

(i) The spouse of an individual;

(ii) The domestic partner of an individual; or

(iii) Another individual in a civil union with an individual.

(4) Court means the superior court.

(5) Debtor means a person having an interest, other than a lien, in collateral, whether or not the person is liable for the secured obligation. The term debtor includes a mortgagor.

(6) Executory contract means a contract, including a lease, under which each party has an unperformed obligation and the failure of a party to complete performance would constitute a material breach.

(7) Governmental unit means an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other agency of this state or a subdivision of this state.

(8) Lien means an interest in property which secures payment or performance of an obligation.

(9) Mortgage means a record, however denominated, that creates or provides for a consensual lien on real property or rents, even if it also creates or provides for a lien on personal property.

(10) Mortgagee means a person entitled to enforce an obligation secured by a mortgage.

(11) Mortgagor means a person that grants a mortgage or a successor in ownership of the real property described in the mortgage.

(12) Owner means the person for whose property a receiver is appointed.

(13) Person means an individual, estate, partnership, association, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.

(14) Proceeds means the following property:

(i) Whatever is acquired on the sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition of receivership property;

(ii) Whatever is collected on, or distributed on account of, receivership property;

(iii) Rights arising out of receivership property;

(iv) To the extent of the value of receivership property, claims arising out of the loss, nonconformity, or interference with the use of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to the property; or

(v) To the extent of the value of receivership property and to the extent payable to the owner or secured party, insurance payable by reason of the loss or nonconformity of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to the property.

(15) Property means all of a persons right, title, and interest, both legal and equitable, in real and personal property, tangible and intangible, wherever located and however acquired. The term includes proceeds, products, offspring, rents, or profits of or from the property.

(16) Receiver means a person appointed by the court as the courts agent, and subject to the courts direction, to take possession of, manage, and, if authorized by this chapter or court order, transfer, sell, lease, license, exchange, collect, or otherwise dispose of receivership property.

(17) Receivership means a proceeding in which a receiver is appointed.

(18) Receivership property means the property of an owner which is described in the order appointing a receiver or a subsequent order. The term includes any proceeds, products, offspring, rents, or profits of or from the property.

(19) Record, used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored on an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(20) Rents means:

(i) Sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person;

(ii) Sums payable to a mortgagor under a policy of rental-interruption insurance covering real property;

(iii) Claims arising out of a default in the payment of sums payable for the right to possess or occupy real property of another person;

(iv) Sums payable to terminate an agreement to possess or occupy real property of another person;

(v) Sums payable to a mortgagor for payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred in owning, operating, and maintaining real property or constructing or installing improvements on real property; or

(vi) Other sums payable under an agreement relating to the real property of another person which constitute rents under law of this state other than this chapter.

(21) Secured obligation means an obligation the payment or performance of which is secured by a security agreement.

(22) Secured party means a person entitled to enforce a secured obligation. The term includes a mortgagee.

(23) Security agreement means an agreement that creates or provides for a lien. The term includes a mortgage.

(24) Sign means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

(i) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

(ii) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process.

(25) State means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-12-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-12 / Section 10-12-9
§ 10-12-9. Judgment on jail yard bond.
Status: in_force

If the creditor shall obtain judgment on the bond for the breach of the condition thereof, he or she shall recover his or her just debt, with interest from the time judgment was rendered in the original suit, and twelve percent (12%) interest on the debt for his or her damages, and the court shall render judgment on the debt accordingly.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-21
§ 10-17-21. Apportionment of costs.
Status: in_force

In all cases under this chapter, the costs may be apportioned as the court may determine.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-15-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / Section 10-15-2
§ 10-15-2. Duties of receiver.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of a receiver to take possession of and manage such estates, to lease the estates but not under seal, collect the rents due and as they become due, keep the premises in repair, and distribute the net income among the joint tenants or tenants in common.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-18
§ 10-5-18. Reduction of damages or partial release of property.
Status: in_force

If the defendant in any writ shall deem the damages stated in the writ excessive, or if the property, either real or personal, held under any attachment, shall greatly exceed in value the amount of the damages stated in the writ, the defendant may, at any time before final judgment or decree, complain in writing to any justice of the court to which the writ is returnable, or to the superior court if the writ shall be pending in the superior court upon appeal from a district court, requesting the reduction of the amount of the damages or a release of a portion of the property attached; and the justice or court may, after due notice to the plaintiff in the writ, or to his or her attorney, and upon cause shown, order the damages to be reduced, or a part of the property attached to be released.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-9
§ 10-7-9. Criminal proceedings not prerequisite.
Status: in_force

In order to maintain any action given in and by this chapter, it shall not be necessary to first institute criminal proceedings against the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-8-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-8 / Section 10-8-1
§ 10-8-1. Procedure as in attachment.
Status: in_force

In case any officer shall distrain for taxes, or by any warrant of distress whatsoever, the goods and chattels of any person, he or she shall proceed in the same manner and be held to the same rules as directed in case of attachments in civil actions.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-27 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-27
§ 10-21-27. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Status: in_force

This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede § 101(c) of that act (15 U.S.C. § 7001(c)), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in § 103(b) of that act (15 U.S.C. § 7003(b)).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-7
§ 10-4-7. Sale of assigned property  Continuation of business  Redemption of property subject to liens.
Status: in_force

No assignee under this chapter shall sell any property of his or her assignor, except perishable goods, or in continuation of the business of the assignor in its ordinary course and without power to purchase new stock or to incur other than necessary expense for keeping the business along, without giving at least ten (10) days notice to all creditors by mail, postpaid, directed to all creditors at their respective addresses as they appear in the schedule made by the assignor, and stating that the property will be sold at public auction at a given time and place, and the assignee shall also give like notice of such auction sale in some public newspaper published in the town or city, or if none be there published, in some public newspaper published in the county where the auction sale will be held; provided, that private sale at a fixed price may be made by consent of all creditors named in the schedule made by the assignor, or by order of the superior court upon application of the assignee and after like ten (10) days notice by mail to such creditors. The assignee may also, upon like consent of the creditors, or like order of the superior court, redeem all mortgages, conditional contracts, pledges, and liens of or upon any property of the assignor conveyed under the assignment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-36 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-36
§ 10-5-36. Sale of perishable property or property expensive to keep.
Status: in_force

If, after reasonable notice, no person appears, or no sufficient cause to the contrary is shown, the justice may direct the officer to sell the perishable property in such manner, on such notice, and at such time, as the justice may prescribe; and the officer shall immediately pay the proceeds of the sales, after deducting from the sales the necessary charges of the sales, into the registry of the court, there to be held as security to satisfy the judgment or decree which the attaching creditor or complainant may recover.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-5
§ 10-20-5. Appointment of referee.
Status: in_force

The court may appoint a referee, who shall be a disinterested person, to take testimony and make a report to the court in any such action.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-31 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-31
§ 10-5-31. Defendant in one county and property in another  Summons of defendants from different counties.
Status: in_force

If the property attached is in one county and the defendant is, or have his or her usual place of abode, in another county, the attachment may be made by any proper officer of the county where the property is situated, and the defendant may be summoned where he or she may be found or have his or her usual place of abode by the officer making the attachment or by any like officer of the county where the defendant may be found or may have his or her usual place of abode; provided, that the officer making the attachment shall not be required to send a copy of the writ by mail to the address of the defendant in case the summons shall be served as by law provided. If, in any writ, citation, or other process issued from the supreme or superior court, the defendants or respondents named in the writ, citation, or other process reside in different counties, the proper officer making service of the writ, citation or other process in the county where the writ, citation, or other process is returnable may summon the defendants or respondents residing in other counties.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-7
§ 10-16-7. Judgment on default by defendant.
Status: in_force

At the time set for answering, if the defendant does not appear to answer and defend the claim, he or she may then, or thereafter as the court may order, be defaulted, and judgment entered against him or her in favor of the plaintiff for his or her claim, or so much thereof as the court may find to be justly due and owing, or that should be awarded to the plaintiff.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-15
§ 10-3-15. Notice of motion to vacate, modify, or correct award.
Status: in_force

Notice of a motion to vacate, modify, or correct an award must be served upon the adverse party or his or her attorney within sixty (60) days after the award is filed or delivered, and before the award is confirmed, as prescribed by law for service of notice of a motion in an action at law. The court may make an order, to be served with the notice of the motion, staying the proceedings of the adverse party to enforce the award.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-12
§ 10-21-12. Powers and duties of receiver.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as limited by court order or law of this state other than this chapter, a receiver may:

(1) Collect, control, manage, conserve, and protect receivership property;

(2) Operate a business constituting receivership property, including preservation, use, sale, lease, license, exchange, collection, or disposition of the property in the ordinary course of business;

(3) In the ordinary course of business, incur unsecured debt and pay expenses incidental to the receivers preservation, use, sale, lease, license, exchange, collection, or disposition of receivership property;

(4) Assert a right, claim, cause of action, or defense of the owner which relates to receivership property;

(5) Seek and obtain instruction from the court concerning receivership property, exercise of the receivers powers, and performance of the receivers duties;

(6) On subpoena, compel a person to submit to examination under oath, or to produce and permit inspection and copying of designated records or tangible things, with respect to receivership property or any other matter that may affect administration of the receivership;

(7) Engage a professional as provided in § 10-21-15;

(8) Apply to a court of another state for appointment as ancillary receiver with respect to receivership property located in that state; and

(9) Exercise any power conferred by court order, this chapter, or law of this state other than this chapter.

(b) With court approval, a receiver may:

(1) Incur debt for the use or benefit of receivership property other than in the ordinary course of business;

(2) Make improvements to receivership property;

(3) Use or transfer receivership property other than in the ordinary course of business as provided in § 10-21-16;

(4) Adopt or reject an executory contract of the owner as provided in § 10-21-17;

(5) Pay compensation to the receiver as provided in § 10-21-21, and to each professional engaged by the receiver as provided in § 10-21-15;

(6) Recommend allowance or disallowance of a claim of a creditor as provided in § 10-21-20; and

(7) Make a distribution of receivership property as provided in § 10-21-20.

(c) A receiver shall:

(1) Prepare and retain appropriate business records, including a record of each receipt, disbursement, and disposition of receivership property;

(2) Account for receivership property, including the proceeds of a sale, lease, license, exchange, collection, or other disposition of the property;

(3) Record with the land evidence records of each city or town in which the property is located a copy of the order appointing the receiver and, if a legal description of the real property is not included in the order, the legal description;

(4) Disclose to the court any fact arising during the receivership which would disqualify the receiver under § 10-21-7; and

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

(d) The powers and duties of a receiver may be expanded, modified, or limited by court order.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-15-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / Section 10-15-1
§ 10-15-1. Appointment to receive income from joint or common property.
Status: in_force

Upon the application of any party interested, the superior court may and is hereby authorized to appoint receivers of the rents and profits of estates owned by joint tenants and tenants in common.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-4
§ 10-17-4. Time of filing account.
Status: in_force

(a) The account shall be filed with the court to which the writ is returnable within twenty (20) days after the service.

(b) In the case of wage garnishments, supplementary accounts shall be filed monthly thereafter until one of three (3) events occurs:

(1) The entire amount of plaintiffs demand and costs of suit has been collected by the garnishee and reported to the court.

(2) The defendant is no longer employed by the garnishee.

(3) Plaintiff has released the garnishee from any obligation to file further accounts.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-27 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-27
§ 10-5-27. Sale of mortgaged property.
Status: in_force

When attached, the mortgaged estate may be sold upon the application of the mortgagee or of either of the parties to the suit, in the manner provided for the sale of perishable goods and chattels when attached.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-9
§ 10-1-9. Proceedings after conviction in criminal proceedings.
Status: in_force

In case the existence of a nuisance, as defined in §§ 11-30-1 and 11-30-2, is established in criminal proceedings, the attorney general may proceed under this chapter to enforce the provisions and penalties of this chapter, and the finding of the defendant guilty in such criminal proceedings, unless reversed or set aside, shall be conclusive evidence as against the defendant as to the existence of a nuisance in proceedings under this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-15
§ 10-16-15. Remedies for enforcement of judgments.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a party obtaining judgment under this chapter shall be entitled to the same remedies, processes, costs and benefits as are given or enure to other judgment creditors including the right to use trustee process in the same small claims action.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-18
§ 10-3-18. Effect of judgment.
Status: in_force

The judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as, and be subject to all the provisions of law relating to, a judgment in an action at law; and it may be enforced as if it has been rendered in an action at law in the court in which it is entered.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-13
§ 10-18-13. Establishment of plan.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon his or her appointment, the receiver shall forthwith meet with the debtor, review the petition and send notice to each creditor listed in the petition and to any other creditor of whose existence as a creditor the receiver may learn within the notice period as prescribed in §10-18-8(a)(2). The notice shall include a copy of §§10-18-6  10-18-12 a schedule of the debtors obligations, and notice that a meeting shall be held at a place selected by the receiver and at a time not less than fifteen (15) nor more than thirty (30) days thereafter for the purposes of considering an amortization plan and of determining the claims to be covered by the plan.

(b) The amount of a creditors claim shall be the amount for which the debtor could have paid or prepaid the claim on a date ten (10) days after the petition was filed either: (1) pursuant to the terms of the obligation; (2) pursuant to the requirements of any applicable statute; or (3) in accordance with the customary practices of the creditor at such time, whichever is the lowest.

(c) All claims included in the plan shall bear interest during the pendency of the plan at the rate applicable to unpaid judgments in this state. If the plan so provides, the interest may be precomputed at the time the plan is established as if all payments were made on the scheduled installment dates and all payments actually made to creditors under the plan applied to the combined total of interest and principal without reference to the date the payments are actually made.

(d) The claim of any creditor under the plan shall not include the part of the obligation of the debtor to that creditor which, pursuant to the terms of the obligation and without reference in those terms to any provision accelerating any unpaid portion of the obligation because of debtors default or otherwise, is payable more than five (5) years from the date the petition is filed hereunder.

(e)(1) Upon conclusion of the meeting, the receiver shall either:

(i) Report to the court that no equitable plan of amortization is feasible or needed in which case the court may forthwith dismiss the proceedings; or

(ii) Recommend to the court a plan of amortization calculated by weekly or monthly payments to discharge in full the claims of all known creditors within a period of not exceeding five (5) years.

(2) The receiver shall attach to the plan the written consents and objections, if any, of the creditors present or represented at the meeting or who have otherwise submitted consents or objections to him or her, and an analysis, with his or her recommendations regarding the disposition of any claim in dispute.

(f) If satisfied that the plan is feasible and equitable, the court shall forthwith enter an order approving the plan and ordering the payment by the employer of the debtor of such salary, wages, commissions, or any combination thereof of the debtor to the receiver as provided by the plan and determining, for the purposes of the plan, the amounts of the claims; otherwise, the court shall enter an order dismissing these proceedings. However, if in any written objection a creditor shall ask for a hearing respecting the plan the court shall set a date for a hearing as soon as practicable on notice to all parties. At that hearing the court shall enter an order either approving the plan, if satisfied that it is feasible and equitable, or dismissing these proceedings or making and approving such modifications of the plan as the court deems just. If the plan is approved, the clerk of the court shall so notify the employer or employers of the petitioner and serve him or her with a copy of the order of the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-3
§ 10-13-3. Citation to creditor to show cause against debtors oath.
Status: in_force

The justice shall forthwith issue a citation to the creditor, if within this state, or if the creditor does not live within this state, then to his or her agent or attorney of record within this state, or if he or she has no agent or attorney, then to the creditor without the state, to appear at the time and place as the justice shall appoint, to show cause, if any he or she have, why the person complaining as provided in § 10-13-1 should not be admitted to take the poor debtors oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-35 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-35
§ 10-5-35. Application to sell perishable property or property expensive to keep.
Status: in_force

Whenever any officer shall attach, on any writ, any live animals or any goods or chattels which are liable to perish or waste, or to be greatly reduced in value by keeping, or which cannot be kept without great and disproportionate expense, any justice of the court out of which the writ shall have been issued may, on the written application of any person interested in the property, cause the defendant and the attaching creditor, or complainant, their attorneys or agents, to be notified to appear at a time and place appointed for that purpose, to show cause why the animals, goods, or chattels should not be sold.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-1
§ 10-5-1. 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 § 10-9-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-8
§ 10-9-8. Return or statement by person to whom writ directed.
Status: in_force

The person to whom the writ is directed shall state in his or her return on the writ:

(1) Whether he or she has or has not the party in his or her custody or power or under restraint;

(2) If he or she has the party in his or her custody or power or under restraint, he or she shall set forth at large the authority, and the true and whole cause of the imprisonment or restraint, with a copy of the writ, warrant, or other process, if any, upon which the party is detained; and

(3) If he or she has had the party in his or her custody or power or under restraint and has transferred custody or restraint to another, he or she shall state particularly to whom, at what time, for what cause, and by what authority the transfer was made.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-15
§ 10-17-15. Liability on failure to render account  Action against trustee.
Status: in_force

If any person, co-partnership or corporation, served as trustee with a copy of a writ, shall refuse or neglect to render, on oath, the account required by § 10-17-2, of what personal estate of the defendant the trustee had in his or her hand at the time of the service of the copy, the trustee shall be charged to the amount of the judgment or decree, if any, rendered against the defendant in the suit; or, if no judgment is so rendered because of want of service upon the defendant, then, the trustee shall be charged to the amount of the just claim or demand which the plaintiff may show against the defendant to the satisfaction of the court. The amount for which the trustee is charged may be recovered by a civil action against him or her, except as otherwise provided in § 9-25-24.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-10
§ 10-18-10. Effect of approval of plan on prior secured creditors.
Status: in_force

(a) All prior secured creditors who have been scheduled in the plan from the initial filing of the petition with the court or whose application has been submitted to the court within ten (10) days of filing with the secretary of state as provided in § 10-18-8(a)(2) may either:

(1) Join the plan if approved and receive payments as determined by the plan; or

(2) Reclaim or repossess the collateral sold on security.

(b) If a prior secured creditor has not been scheduled in the plan from the initial filing of the petition with the court and whose application has not been submitted to the court within ten (10) days of the filing with the secretary of state as provided in § 10-18-8(a)(2), he or she may reclaim or repossess the collateral sold on security if the debtor defaults upon the contract of sale unless the retention of the collateral by the debtor is essential to the continuance of his or her employment upon reasonable terms and conditions. In such case subsection (e) of this section shall apply.

(c) If a secured creditor under subsection (a)(2) or (b) of this section or § 10-18-11(c) reclaims or repossesses the collateral sold on security, that shall be the extent of his or her recovery.

(d) Notwithstanding § 10-18-7, any action, judicial or non-judicial, by a secured creditor under subsection (a)(2) or (b) of this section or § 10-18-11(c) for the purpose of reclaiming or repossessing collateral sold on security shall be enforced.

(e) At any time either during the pendency of proceedings hereunder or pursuant to subsection (a)(2) or (b) of this section or § 10-18-11(c) and before a secured creditor shall have acquired actual possession of the collateral to which this subsection applies, the debtor may petition the court, upon notice to the secured creditor, to stay any action, judicial or nonjudicial, by the secured creditor to reclaim or repossess such collateral as the debtor shall identify in his or her petition on the grounds that the retention of the collateral by the debtor is essential to the continuance of his or her employment upon reasonable terms and conditions. Upon the filing of a written notice by the secured creditor, within twenty (20) days of the service upon him or her of a copy of the petition, the court shall order a hearing and, upon a determination for the debtor, shall order a stay which shall be effective during the pendency of these proceedings. The stay shall automatically terminate if the debtor shall fail to pay to the creditor on any installment date, as provided in the plan, a payment in the minimum amount of the approximate depreciation in the fair market value of the relevant collateral for the period since the previous payment or the installments actually due under the relevant deferred payment contract, whichever is less. The amount may be fixed by the court and may be varied from time to time upon petition to the court by the secured creditor, the receiver, or the debtor, with notice to all other parties.

(f) Notwithstanding subsection (e) of this section, a creditor may at any time during the pendency of proceedings herein, petition the court to reclaim or repossess such collateral as such creditor may identify in his or her petition. A creditor may also petition the court to direct the receiver to distribute assets in his or her possession. The court shall determine the manner of giving notice of such petitions and shall in its discretion grant, deny, or modify the creditors petition.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-6.1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-6.1
§ 10-21-6.1. Appointment of temporary non-liquidating receiver.
Status: in_force

The court may appoint a temporary non-liquidating receiver on the request of the owner if:

(1) As of the date of an emergency declaration, the owner was not insolvent;

(2) As of the date of an emergency declaration, the owner was generally paying its debts as those debts became due;

(3) As of the date of an emergency declaration, the owner was not in material default of its obligations to a secured party; and

(4) Either:

(i) Because of the events giving rise to the emergency, the owners gross revenue has declined by more than twenty percent (20%), in a sixty (60) day period beginning on or after the date of an emergency declaration, as compared to the same period of the previous year; or

(ii) Because of action by a governmental unit exercising its police or regulatory power to mitigate or otherwise address the emergency, the owner suspended or ceased a substantial part of its business operations.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-5
§ 10-13-5. Citations to state as creditor.
Status: in_force

Every person imprisoned or liable to be imprisoned in any suit in favor of the state, entitled to the oath prescribed in § 10-13-8, may apply for and have a citation to the state, to show cause why he or she should not be admitted to take the debtors oath.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-9
§ 10-4-9. Effect on suits and proceedings of death, resignation, or removal of assignee.
Status: in_force

No suit or proceeding pending at the time of the death, resignation, or removal of any assignee under this chapter, and to which he or she is a party, shall be abated by his or her death, resignation, or removal, but the suit or proceeding may be proceeded with or defended by his or her joint assignees or assignee or successor, in the same manner as though the suit or proceeding had been begun or was being defended by such joint assignees or assignee alone, or by such successor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-5 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-5
§ 10-4-5. Removal or replacement of assignee.
Status: in_force

Any assignee under this chapter may be removed by the superior court, for cause shown, upon petition of one-fifth ( ) in amount of the creditors and upon at least five (5) days notice by mail, postpaid, directed to all creditors at their respective addresses and directed to the assignee. In case of the death, resignation, or removal of any assignee, a successor may be appointed by the superior court, upon the petition of any person interested, with like notice, as provided in this section, to all the creditors and to the assignor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-19
§ 10-9-19. Admission to bail.
Status: in_force

If the party is detained for any cause or offense for which he or she is bailable of right, he or she shall be admitted to bail if sufficient bail be offered, and if not, he or she shall be remanded with an order of the court expressing the sum in which he or she shall be held to bail, and the court at which he or she shall be required to appear, and any person authorized thereto may, at any time before the sitting of the court, bail the party pursuant to the order.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-14 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-14
§ 10-3-14. Modification or correction of award.
Status: in_force

(a) In any of the following cases, the court must make an order modifying or correcting the award, upon the application of any party to the arbitration:

(1) Where there was an evident material miscalculation of figures, or an evident material mistake in the description of any person, thing, or property referred to in the award.

(2) Where the arbitrators have awarded upon a matter not submitted to them, unless it is a matter not affecting the merits of the decision upon the matters submitted.

(3) Where the award is imperfect in matter of form not affecting the merits of the controversy.

(b) The order must modify and correct the award, so as to effect the intent thereof and promote justice between the parties.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-1-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-1 / Section 10-1-7
§ 10-1-7. Decree and order of abatement  Sale of property.
Status: in_force

If the existence of a nuisance shall finally be admitted or established in any proceeding under this chapter, a decree permanently enjoining the maintenance thereof shall be entered, and, in addition thereto, an order of abatement shall be entered, directing a deputy sheriff to enter the place where the nuisance exists and to sell and remove, in the manner provided for the sale of goods and chattels under execution, all personal property used in maintaining the nuisance, unless the owner of the personal property 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 maintenance of the nuisance before the filing of the complaint, and the court may further direct that the place where the nuisance exists shall be kept closed for all purposes for a period of one year unless otherwise ordered. The proceeds of any sale under this section shall be applied first to the payment of all costs incurred in connection with the proceedings brought under this chapter in connection with the nuisance, and secondly to the payment of a reasonable counsel fee for the plaintiff, and any balance remaining shall be paid to the owner of the property so sold.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-9
§ 10-18-9. Effect of approval of plan on prior unsecured creditors.
Status: in_force

All prior unsecured creditors, who have been scheduled in the plan from the initial filing of the petition with the court or whose application has been submitted to the court within ten (10) days of filing with the secretary of state as provided in § 10-18-8(a)(2), must join the plan if it is approved.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-22
§ 10-13-22. Effect of execution after oath.
Status: in_force

If the defendant be admitted to take the oath, he or she shall thereafter be exempt from imprisonment on the execution or any future execution that may be issued on such judgment, and execution on such judgment shall issue only against the goods and chattels and real estate of the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-10
§ 10-17-10. Delivery of specific articles on execution.
Status: in_force

If it shall appear by the disclosure that the personal estate in the hands of the trustee belonging to the defendant did not consist of money, but of one or more specific articles, the trustee may, after final judgment or decree against the defendant, surrender or deliver to the officer charged with the execution issued on the judgment or decree, the specific articles, in order that they may be taken on execution.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-2-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / Section 10-2-3
§ 10-2-3. Commitment of parties refusing to give evidence to auditors.
Status: in_force

Whenever any defendant shall unreasonably refuse or neglect to appear at the time and place assigned by the auditors or, after appearing, shall refuse or neglect to render an account, the auditors may award to the plaintiff the whole of his or her demand, and the auditors may administer an oath to the parties, respectively, and examine them respecting their accounts and the matters submitted to them, and upon either of the parties refusing to take an oath truly to answer such questions as shall be asked or to answer directly to the interrogatories put to him or her, the auditors may commit him or her to jail, there to remain at his or her own charge until he or she consent to take the oath and answer the interrogatories.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-13
§ 10-16-13. Disbursements allowed as costs.
Status: in_force

The actual cash disbursements of the prevailing party for entry fee, mailing fee, and officers and witness fees shall be allowed as costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-25 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-25
§ 10-9-25. Forfeiture for failure to receive and execute writ.
Status: in_force

Every person guilty of such a refusal or neglect to receive and execute a writ of habeas corpus shall also forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved by the refusal or neglect one thousand dollars ($1,000).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-7
§ 10-11-7. Discharge of bail by surrender of principal pending action.
Status: in_force

Any person who shall become bail in any civil action, either by giving bail bond to the officer serving the writ therein or by indorsing the writ, or by giving bond to the warden of the adult correctional institutions, may, during the pendency of the action, discharge himself or herself as bail by bringing his or her principal into the court in which the action shall be pending and there delivering him or her into the custody of the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-3
§ 10-11-3. Bail by indorsement of process.
Status: in_force

Instead of giving bond as provided in § 10-11-2, the person becoming bail may indorse his or her Christian name and surname on the back of the writ or process, which shall hold him or her as bail to the same extent as if he or she had executed and delivered a formal bail bond.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-29 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-29
§ 10-21-29. Official comments.
Status: in_force

It is the intention of the general assembly that the official comments to the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act as approved and recommended for enactment in all the States by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2015 represent the express legislative intent of the general assembly and shall be used as a guide for interpretation of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-8
§ 10-13-8. Form of debtors oath.
Status: in_force

The oath to be administered in such a case shall be as follows: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not any estate, real or personal, in possession, remainder, or reversion over $ 10.00 (or except what is exempt from attachment by law not herein enumerated) nor any debts secured by bills of exchange or negotiable promissory notes, and that I have not, since the commencement of this suit against me or at any other time, directly or indirectly, sold, leased, or otherwise conveyed or disposed of to, or intrusted any person or persons whomsoever with, all or any part of the estate, real or personal, whereof I have been the lawful owner or possessor, with any intent or design to secure the property or to receive or to expect any profit or advantage therefrom for myself or for any of my children or family or any other person, or have caused or suffered to be done anything else whatsoever whereby any of my creditors may be defrauded, so help me God (or this affirmation I make and give upon peril of the penalty of perjury).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-25 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-25
§ 10-3-25. Breach of arbitration agreement  Court sanctions  Additional sanctions.
Status: in_force

(a) The court shall impose a monetary sanction against a drafting party that materially breaches an arbitration agreement pursuant to § 10-3-23(a) or § 10-3-24(a), by ordering the drafting party to pay the reasonable expenses, including attorneys fees and costs, incurred by the employee or consumer as a result of the material breach.

(b) In addition to the monetary sanction described in subsection (a) of this section, the court may order any of the following sanctions against a drafting party that materially breaches an arbitration agreement pursuant to § 10-3-23(a) or § 10-3-24(a), unless the court finds that the one subject to the sanction acted with substantial justification or that other circumstances make the imposition of the sanction unjust:

(1) An evidence sanction by an order prohibiting the drafting party from conducting discovery in the civil action;

(2) A terminating sanction by one of the following orders:

(i) An order striking out the pleadings or parts of the pleadings of the drafting party;

(ii) An order rendering a judgment by default against the drafting party; and

(3) A contempt sanction by an order finding the drafting party in contempt of court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-3
§ 10-3-3. Stay of actions on issues referable to arbitration.
Status: in_force

If any suit or proceeding be brought upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for arbitration, the court in which the suit is pending, upon being satisfied that the issue involved in the suit or proceeding is referable to arbitration under such an agreement, shall, on application of one of the parties, stay the trial of the action until the arbitration has been had in accordance with the terms of the agreement, providing the applicant for the stay is not in default in proceeding with the arbitration.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-46 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-46
§ 10-5-46. Dissolution of attachment of real estate after 20 years.
Status: in_force

In addition to the remedies provided by §§ 10-5-44, 10-5-45, and 9-25-23 any attachment levied against real estate, heretofore or hereafter of record, shall be dissolved, and no longer be a lien upon the real estate described or referred to in the attachment, after the expiration of a period of twenty (20) years from the date of the recording of the attachment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-22
§ 10-5-22. Defendants bond on corporate stock or trust estate.
Status: in_force

Whenever a writ shall command the attachment of the shares of the defendant in any corporation, or of his or her personal estate in the hands or possession of any person, co-partnership or corporation, as trustee, the defendant may, at any time after the service of the writ upon the trustee, and before final judgment or decree, deliver to the officer who served the writ a bond, in the penal sum of the amount of damages stated 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 of the final judgment or decree.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-7_10-5-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-7_10-5-7
§ 10-5-7. Classes of property named in writ. [Effective until January 1, 2026.]10-5-7. Classes of property named in writ  Limitation on filing execution. [Effective January 1, 2026.]
Status: in_force

Whenever a writ of attachment can be issued by any court, it may command the attachment of the goods and chattels of the defendant and his or her real estate and his or her personal estate in the hands or possession of any person, copartnership or corporation, as his or her trustee, except as provided in § 6A-7-602, and his or her stock or shares in any banking association or other incorporated company, and may be varied so as to command the attachment of one or more of the classes of property of the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-18
§ 10-21-18. Defenses and immunities of receiver.
Status: in_force

(a) A receiver is entitled to all defenses and immunities provided by law of this state other than this chapter for an act or omission within the scope of the receivers appointment.

(b) A receiver may be sued personally for an act or omission in administering receivership property only with approval of the court that appointed the receiver.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-11
§ 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.
Status: in_force

If any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable or the warden of the adult correctional institutions shall take or receive from any prisoner in his or her custody any bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance whatsoever, to indemnify and save harmless the person taking the bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance for the enlargement or ease of the prisoner, in any other form or manner than is prescribed by law for taking bail on mesne process in a civil action, or is prescribed in this chapter or chapter 12 of this title, every such bond, obligation, covenant, promise or assurance whatsoever, shall be utterly void.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-1
§ 10-10-1. Grounds for writ commanding arrest.
Status: in_force

At the commencement of a civil action, a writ, commanding the arrest of any person not exempt by law from arrest, shall be issued from the superior court or from any district court only after application to a justice thereof, who may, in his or her discretion, order the issuance of the writ and who shall endorse such order in writing on the face of the writ:

(1) In any action on penal statutes, or in any action sounding in tort, except replevin, or against bail in criminal cases.

(2) Whenever the plaintiff in the action, his or her agent or attorney, shall make affidavit, to be endorsed on the writ or annexed to the writ, that the plaintiff has a just claim against the defendant, that is due, upon which the plaintiff expects to recover in the action a sum sufficient to give jurisdiction to the court to which the writ is returnable; and also either that the defendant to be arrested is about to leave the state, without leaving therein real or personal estate whereon an execution that may be obtained in such action can be served, and, in case the defendant is not a resident of the state, that the plaintiff, or if more than one plaintiff, that some of the plaintiffs are actual residents of the state, or that the defendant to be arrested has committed fraud in fact involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong, either in contracting the debt upon which the action is founded or in the concealment of his or her property or in the disposition of the property; provided, that whenever an arrest shall be made in accordance with the second clause of this section, the court to which the writ is made returnable, or any justice thereof, may by order, upon application of any defendant so arrested, and for cause shown upon hearing the parties therein, release the defendant from the arrest and discharge the bail taken thereon, if any; but the action shall not be dismissed on account of the release and discharge, but may be prosecuted to final judgment in the same manner as if no release and discharge had been granted.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-15
§ 10-9-15. Notice to party on whose process restraint based.
Status: in_force

Whenever it appears, from the return of the writ, or otherwise, that the party is detained on any process under which any other person has an interest in continuing his or her imprisonment or restraint, the party shall not be discharged until sufficient notice shall have been given to the interested person or his or her attorney, if within the state or within thirty (30) miles of the place of examination, to 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 § 10-5-40 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-40
§ 10-5-40. Attested copies on demand  Fee.
Status: in_force

The officer shall give to any defendant, his or her agent or attorney, or any other person interested in any action in which a writ of attachment shall have been served immediately upon his or her request, an attested copy of the writ, with his or her doings thereon, upon being tendered therefor a fee of twenty cents ($.20) for every page of two hundred (200) words of the copy of the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-22 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-22
§ 10-17-22. Costs and charges incurred by trustee.
Status: in_force

Every person, partnership, or corporation served with a copy of a writ for attaching the estate of another in his, her, or its hands or possession shall be paid all lawful costs and charges which he, she, or it shall incur in consequence of being served with the writ of attachment by the person who brings the action or suit; and so much of such charge as shall be judged reasonable by the court before whom the cause shall be pending shall be allowed in the bill of costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-19
§ 10-21-19. Interim report of receiver.
Status: in_force

A receiver may file or, if ordered by the court, shall file an interim report that includes:

(1) The activities of the receiver since appointment or a previous report;

(2) Receipts and disbursements, including a payment made or proposed to be made to a professional engaged by the receiver;

(3) Receipts and dispositions of receivership property;

(4) Fees and expenses of the receiver and, if not filed separately, a request for approval of payment of the fees and expenses; and

(5) Any other information required by the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-2
§ 10-11-2. Giving of bail bond.
Status: in_force

Whoever shall become bail for any person may give bond to a member of the division of sheriffs, if the writ or process shall be served by the division of sheriffs; and if the writ or process shall be served by a town sergeant or constable, the bail bond in such case shall be given to the officer serving the writ or process.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-32 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-32
§ 10-9-32. Judicial power to bring in criminal defendants and witnesses.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to restrain the power of any court to issue a writ of habeas corpus, whenever necessary to bring before them any prisoner for trial, in any criminal case lawfully pending in the same court, or to bring in any prisoner to be examined as a witness in any suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending in the court, whenever they shall think the personal attendance and examination of the witness necessary for the attainment of justice.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-19 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-19
§ 10-18-19. Deferred obligations of debtor during pendency of receivership proceedings.
Status: in_force

During the pendency of these receivership proceedings, the debtor shall not voluntarily incur obligations for the payment of money at any time in excess of an aggregate amount of one hundred dollars ($100) or incur any secured obligation without the prior approval of the receiver upon the receivers determination that the obligations are for the reasonable living requirements of the debtor or his or her family or dependents and that payments of the obligations will not represent an undue hazard to the successful completion of the plan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-2-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-2 / Section 10-2-1
§ 10-2-1. Account between owners of common property.
Status: in_force

Whenever two (2) or more persons have and hold any estate, interest or property, whether real or personal, in common as joint tenants, tenants in common, co-parceners or joint owners and one or more of the owners of the common property shall take, receive, use or have benefit thereof, in greater proportion than his, her, or their interest therein, such owner or owners, his, her, or their executors and administrators shall be liable to render his, her, or their account of the use and profit of such common property to his, her or their fellow commoner or commoners, jointly or severally; and such of the fellow commoner or commoners or any or either of them, their executors or administrators, shall have his, her, or their action against such receiver or receivers or either of them, as his, her, or their bailiff or bailiffs, for receiving more than his, her, or their part or proportion as provided in this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-16-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-16 / Section 10-16-1
§ 10-16-1. Actions subject to chapter.
Status: in_force

In all ex contractu civil actions and in any action to recover the amount of any tax for money only not in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) exclusive of interest and costs, and in all actions or suits to recover damages resulting from a retail sale of tangible personal property to a member of the general public or from services rendered to a member of the general public in which the plaintiff seeks to recover an amount of money only not in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) exclusive of interest and costs, and in all actions or suits based upon a negotiable instrument involving an amount of money only not in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) exclusive of interest and costs, the procedure shall, at the plaintiffs election, shown by his or her waiver of appeal, be as provided by this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-3
§ 10-9-3. Application for writ  Contents.
Status: in_force

Application for such a writ shall be made to the supreme or superior or family court, or to any justice of those courts, by complaint in writing, signed by the party for whose relief it is intended, or by some person in his or her behalf, setting forth:

(1) The person by whom and the place where the party is imprisoned or restrained, naming the prisoner and the person detaining him or her if their names are known, and describing them if they are not known.

(2) The cause or pretense of the imprisonment or restraint, according to the knowledge and belief of the person applying. If the imprisonment or restraint is by virtue of any warrant or other process a copy thereof shall be annexed or it shall be made to appear that a copy thereof has been demanded and refused, or that for some sufficient reason a demand of a copy could not be made. The facts set forth in the complaint shall be verified by the oath of the person making the application or by that of some other credible witness, which oath may be administered by the court or justice to whom the application is made, or by any justice of the peace or notary public.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-18 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-18
§ 10-17-18. Dismissal of person served who holds no property.
Status: in_force

If it shall appear by the disclosure that the person who or partnership or corporation which had been served as trustee with a copy of such writ, had not any of the personal estate of the defendant in his, her, or its hands, then the action or suit shall be dismissed, and the trustee who shall appear to defend the action shall recover the costs, unless the court has acquired personal jurisdiction over the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-12
§ 10-3-12. Grounds for vacating award.
Status: in_force

In any of the following cases, the court must make an order vacating the award upon the application of any party to the arbitration:

(1) Where the award was procured by corruption, fraud or undue means.

(2) Where there was evident partiality or corruption on the part of the arbitrators, or either of them.

(3) Where the arbitrators were guilty of misconduct in refusing to postpone the hearing, upon sufficient cause shown, or in hearing legally immaterial evidence, or refusing to hear evidence pertinent and material to the controversy, or of any other misbehavior by which the rights of any party have been substantially prejudiced.

(4) Where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-13 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-13
§ 10-4-13. Chancery jurisdiction preserved  Provisions mandatory.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to exclude the additional chancery jurisdiction of the supreme and superior courts. The provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be mandatory and not directory.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-15-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-15 / Section 10-15-3
§ 10-15-3. Removal and replacement of receiver.
Status: in_force

A receiver may be for cause shown removed by the court and another appointed in his or her place, upon the petition of any party interested in the estate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-20 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-20
§ 10-5-20. Account rendered by corporate officer.
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of § 6A-8-317, whenever any banking association or incorporated company shall be served with a copy of a writ attaching its stock or shares, if a bank, its cashier, if an insurance company, its president or secretary, and if any other corporation, its treasurer or the person executing the duties of treasurer, shall render an account upon oath to the court to which the writ shall be returnable, of what stock or shares the defendant had in the company at the time of the serving of the writ, except as provided in § 6A-4-303. The account shall be filed, in any district court, within ten (10) days after the service of the writ. The account shall be filed, in any other court, within twenty (20) days after the service of the writ.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-9 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-9
§ 10-21-9. Status of receiver as lien creditor.
Status: in_force

On appointment of a receiver, in addition to the receivers other status under this chapter, the receiver has the status of a lien creditor under:

(1) Chapter 9 of title 6A as to receivership property that is personal property or fixtures; and

(2) Section 34-13-2 as to receivership property that is real property.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-1 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-1
§ 10-20-1. Legislative findings and purpose.
Status: in_force

The general assembly finds and declares that each person is entitled by right to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of air, water, land, and other natural resources located within the state and that each person has the responsibility to contribute to the protection, preservation, and enhancement thereof. The legislature further declares its policy to create and maintain within the state conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony in order that present and future generations may enjoy clean air and water, productive land, and other natural resources with which this state has been endowed. Accordingly, it is in the public interest to provide an adequate civil remedy to protect air, water, land and other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-7 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-7
§ 10-18-7. Effect of filing.
Status: in_force

(a) After the filing of the petition with the court under this chapter and until the dismissal of these proceedings, no prior creditor or subsequent creditor seeking the collection of any claim may levy or enforce any judgment, execution, attachment, garnishment, or other legal or equitable process or proceeding against the property, real or personal, including, but not limited to, wages, salaries, or commission of the debtor; nor may any assignment of wages be enforced against the debtor.

(b) Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall by order require that all such proceedings be so stayed and the debtor shall be entitled to have a copy of the order served upon any or all of his or her creditors and his or her employer(s).

(c) With respect to the claims to be amortized under this chapter, the time between the filing of the petition with the court or the inclusion of the claim in these proceedings, whichever is later, and the dismissal of these proceedings shall not be counted as a part of the period of any statute of limitations.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-11 / Section 10-11-6
§ 10-11-6. Bond or indorsement in Providence county.
Status: in_force

In case bail be taken by the warden, the person becoming bail shall give bond to the warden in a penal sum equal to the damages stated in the writ; but if bail be taken by the officer who served the writ, the person becoming bail may give such bond to the officer, or may indorse his or her Christian name and surname on the back of the writ or process, which shall hold him or her as bail as in other cases.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-7 / Section 10-7-10
§ 10-7-10. Damages not to estate or asset of estate.
Status: in_force

All damages recoverable under §§ 10-7-1  10-7-4 and under 10-7-7.1 shall be recoverable by and awarded to those beneficiaries as specified in § 10-7-2 and shall not be deemed or considered damages to the estate of the decedent, nor shall they be considered in any way an asset of the estate of the decedent, nor liable to any claims against the estate of the decedent.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-28 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-28
§ 10-9-28. Common law remedies not barred by penalties.
Status: in_force

The recovery of any penalty imposed by this chapter shall not bar any action at the common law for false imprisonment, or for false return to the writ of habeas corpus, or for any other injury or damage sustained by the aggrieved party.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-10
§ 10-5-10. Value of goods attached.
Status: in_force

Whenever a writ of attachment issued at the commencement of an action, or writ of mesne process, shall command the officer to whom the writ is directed to attach the goods and chattels of a defendant, the officer shall attach the goods and chattels to the value commanded in the writ, if so much can be found by him or her, and may attach any less value, if the plaintiff or his or her attorney shall give order therefor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-8 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-8
§ 10-20-8. Administrative and licensing proceedings  Intervention by environment advocate.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in § 10-20-9, in any administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings and in any action for judicial review thereof which is made available by law, the environmental advocate may intervene on such terms as the court may deem just and equitable in order to effectuate the purposes and policies set forth in § 10-20-1.

(b) In any administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings, the agency shall consider the alleged impairment, pollution, or destruction of the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state and no conduct shall be authorized or approved which does, or is likely to have, such effect so long as there is a feasible, prudent, and economically viable alternative consistent with the reasonable requirements of the public health, safety, and welfare.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-4
§ 10-4-4. Recording and notice of assignments.
Status: in_force

Every assignee under this chapter shall immediately cause the deed of assignment to be recorded in the registry of deeds in each town or city in which there may be real estate of the assignor on which it may operate, and in any event in the registry of deeds of the town or city where the assignor resides or is located, and shall immediately give public notice of his or her qualification, with notice to all creditors to present claims and all debtors to make payments to the assignee, in some newspaper published in the county in which the assignor resides or is located; and the assignee shall immediately also notify creditors by depositing like notice in the United States mail, postpaid, and directed to the creditors at their respective address as they appear in the schedule made by the assignor and filed with the assignee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-21
§ 10-18-21. Payments by employers.
Status: in_force

(a) Payments by any employer to a receiver in pursuance of notice from the court or the filing of a petition under this chapter or the receipt of an assignment of wages, salary or commissions by a receiver shall be payment to the employee the same as if received by the employee personally, regardless of any defect or invalidity in the instruments or these proceedings, and regardless of any statute of this state relating to wage assignments, garnishments, exemptions, or otherwise to the contrary.

(b) Any employer who pays any salary, wages or commission in violation of a notice received by him or her from the court shall be liable for any sums so paid.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-34 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-34
§ 10-5-34. Subsequent attachments of other property.
Status: in_force

After an attachment of property, subsequent attachments of other property of the defendant may be made by any proper officer, at any time before the defendant is served with the writ; and, if need be, the plaintiff may amend his or her writ for the purpose of having subsequent attachment made.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-15 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-15
§ 10-18-15. Dispute of claims during pendency of proceedings.
Status: in_force

(a) The court, receiver, debtor, or any creditor may dispute the claim of any creditor at any time during the pendency of these proceedings. Upon the filing with the court of a written notice of intention to dispute a claim or upon the determination of the court, on its own motion, to dispute a claim, the court shall cause notice of a hearing thereon to be served on all parties and hold a hearing thereon. At the hearing the court may establish the amount of the claim or make such other determination as shall be fair and equitable under the circumstances.

(b) Neither the determination of the amount of any claim for the purposes of the plan, nor the acceptance of payments thereunder, shall affect the right of any creditor to litigate his or her claim and obtain judgment thereon, or the right of the debtor to dispute it, and the amount of any judgments shall be substituted by the receiver for the amount theretofore being used as a basis for distribution.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-4-3 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-4 / Section 10-4-3
§ 10-4-3. Place of filing of papers.
Status: in_force

In all proceedings arising under this chapter, whenever the assignor or some one of the assignors is an inhabitant of or located in Providence or Bristol county, the papers shall be filed in the clerks office of the superior court in Providence; and whenever the assignor or one of the assignors is an inhabitant of or located in either Newport, Kent, or Washington county, the papers shall be filed in the clerks office of the superior court in Newport, East Greenwich, or South Kingstown, respectively.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-6
§ 10-3-6. Judicial appointment of arbitrators.
Status: in_force

If, in the agreement, provision is made for a method of naming or appointing an arbitrator or arbitrators or an umpire, the method shall be followed; but if no method is provided in the agreement, or if a method is provided and any party thereto shall fail to avail himself or herself of such method, or if for any other reason there shall be a lapse in the naming of an arbitrator or arbitrators or an umpire, or in filling a vacancy, then, upon the application of either party to the controversy, the court, as described in § 10-3-4, shall designate and appoint an arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire, as the case may require, who shall act under the agreement with the same force and effect as if he, she, or they had been specifically named in the agreement; and, unless otherwise provided in the agreement, the arbitration shall be by a single arbitrator.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-6
§ 10-13-6. Service of citation on attorney general.
Status: in_force

The citation described in § 10-13-5 shall be issued to and served upon the attorney general, in the same manner and with the same effect as is provided in the case of creditors other than the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-6 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-6
§ 10-21-6. Appointment of receiver.
Status: in_force

(a) The court may appoint a receiver:

(1) Before judgment, to protect a party that demonstrates an apparent right, title, or interest in property that is the subject of the action, if the property or its revenue-producing potential:

(i) Is being subjected to or is in danger of waste, loss, dissipation, misapplication, or impairment; or

(ii) Has been or is about to be the subject of a voidable transaction;

(2) After judgment:

(i) To carry the judgment into effect; or

(ii) To preserve nonexempt real property pending appeal or when an execution has been returned unsatisfied and the owner refuses to apply the property in satisfaction of the judgment;

(3) In an action against a person that is not an individual if:

(i) The object of the action is the dissolution of the person;

(ii) The person is not an individual, and the person has been dissolved or revoked;

(iii) The persons responsible for management of the person are deadlocked in the management of the persons affairs;

(iv) The acts of the persons in control of the person are illegal, oppressive, or fraudulent; or

(v) The person is insolvent or generally is not paying the persons debts as those debts become due; or

(4) In an action in which a receiver may be appointed on equitable grounds.

(b) In connection with the foreclosure or other enforcement of a security agreement, the court may appoint a receiver for the collateral if:

(1) Appointment is necessary to protect the collateral from waste, loss, transfer, dissipation, misapplication, or impairment;

(2) The debtor agreed in a signed record to appointment of a receiver on default;

(3) The owner agreed, after default and in a signed record, to appointment of a receiver;

(4) The collateral and any other security held by the secured party are not reasonably expected to be sufficient to satisfy the secured obligation; or

(5) The owner fails to turn over to the secured party proceeds or rents the secured party was entitled to collect.

(c) The court may condition appointment of a receiver without prior notice under § 10-21-3(b)(1) or without a prior hearing under § 10-21-3(b)(2) on the giving of security by the person seeking the appointment for the payment of damages, reasonable attorneys fees, and costs incurred or suffered by any person if the court later concludes that the appointment was not justified. If the court later concludes that the appointment was justified, the court shall release the security.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-10
§ 10-13-10. Discharge of prisoner.
Status: in_force

Whenever any prisoner shall present a certificate, as is prescribed in § 10-13-9, to the warden of the institution in which he or she is imprisoned, the warden shall immediately discharge him or her from his or her commitment at the suit of the creditor named in the certificate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-17-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-17 / Section 10-17-17
§ 10-17-17. Defense in name of defendant.
Status: in_force

Every person, who shall be served with a copy of a writ against any defendant, may file an answer to the action or suit and defend the suit in behalf and in the name of the defendant.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-20-4 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-20 / Section 10-20-4
§ 10-20-4. Burden of proof.
Status: in_force

(a) In any action maintained under § 10-20-3, where the subject of the action is conduct governed by an environmental quality standard promulgated or issued by an environmental control agency, whenever the plaintiff shall have made a prima facie showing that the conduct of the defendant violates or is likely to violate the environmental quality standard, the defendant may rebut the prima facie showing by the submission of evidence to the contrary.

(b) In any other action maintained under § 10-20-3, whenever the plaintiff shall have made a prima facie showing that the conduct of the defendant has, or is likely to cause the pollution, impairment or destruction of the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state, the defendant may rebut the prima facie showing by the submission of evidence to the contrary. The defendant may also show, by way of an affirmative defense, that there is no feasible, prudent, and economically viable alternative and the conduct at issue is consistent with the reasonable requirements of the public health, safety, and welfare.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-16 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-16
§ 10-21-16. Use or transfer of receivership property not in the ordinary course of business.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, good faith means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.

(b) With court approval, a receiver may use receivership property other than in the ordinary course of business.

(c) With court approval, a receiver may transfer receivership property other than in the ordinary course of business by sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition. Unless the agreement of sale provides otherwise, a sale under this section is free and clear of a lien of the person that obtained appointment of the receiver, any subordinate lien, and any right of redemption. However, unless the holder of a senior lien consents, such a sale:

(1) Is subject to the senior lien and to the rights and remedies of the holder of the senior lien under law other than this chapter; and

(2) Does not affect the obligation secured by the senior lien.

(d) A lien on receivership property which is extinguished by a transfer under subsection (c) of this section attaches to the proceeds of the transfer with the same validity, perfection, and priority the lien had on the property immediately before the transfer, even if the proceeds are not sufficient to satisfy all obligations secured by the lien.

(e) A transfer under subsection (c) of this section may occur by means other than a public auction sale. A creditor holding a valid lien on the property to be transferred may purchase the property and offset against the purchase price part or all of the allowed amount secured by the lien, if the creditor tenders funds sufficient to satisfy in full the reasonable expenses of transfer and the obligation secured by any senior lien extinguished by the transfer.

(f) A reversal or modification of an order approving a transfer under subsection (c) of this section does not affect the validity of the transfer to a person that acquired the property in good faith or revive against the person any lien extinguished by the transfer, whether or not the person knew before the transfer of the request for reversal or modification, unless the court stayed the order before the transfer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-12 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-10 / Section 10-10-12
§ 10-10-12. Payment of prisoners board.
Status: in_force

Whenever any person shall be imprisoned in or committed to the adult correctional institution upon original writ, mesne process, execution, or surrender or commitment by bail, in any action whatsoever, the party at whose suit the person is imprisoned, or committed for the benefit of or at the request of the United States of America shall pay to the warden of the institution in which he or she is imprisoned or committed the sum of two hundred ten dollars ($210), per week in advance for the board of the prisoner or person, reckoning the board from the time of the commitment; which payment in advance shall continue to be made by the creditor or the United States of America during the time the person shall be detained at his or her suit; provided, however, that in all cases in which any person shall be imprisoned under an original writ, mesne process, execution against the body or because of surrender or commitment by bail, in any suit in favor of the state and in all cases where the person is held in civil or criminal contempt by any court of the state, or any commitment under § 15-5-16, no board need be demanded by or paid to the warden. Provided, further, however, that in all applicable cases of commitment, the party so committing shall pay the board in advance until one week after notice in writing of the commitment shall have been duly served upon the party, or his or her attorney of record, by any member of the division of sheriffs, or other duly qualified officer and lodged with the warden of the institution where the person is committed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-2 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-13 / Section 10-13-2
§ 10-13-2. Persons not entitled to take oath.
Status: in_force

No person who shall be committed on execution awarded against him or her as plaintiff in replevin or as defendant in any action on a penal statute or in any action for conversion or detention of personal property, or for any malicious injury to the person, health or reputation of the plaintiff in such suit, or for seduction, or for any trespass, excepting only such as are particularly named in § 10-13-1, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the provisions of that section or entitled to be admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-1.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-10
§ 10-21-10. Security interest covering after-acquired property.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by law of this state other than this chapter, property that a receiver or owner acquires after appointment of the receiver is subject to a security agreement entered into before the appointment to the same extent as if the court had not appointed the receiver.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-21
§ 10-21-21. Fees and expenses.
Status: in_force

(a) The court may award a receiver from receivership property the reasonable and necessary fees and expenses of performing the duties of the receiver and exercising the powers of the receiver.

(b) The court may order one or more of the following to pay the reasonable and necessary fees and expenses of the receivership, including reasonable attorneys fees and costs:

(1) A person that requested the appointment of the receiver, if the receivership does not produce sufficient funds to pay the fees and expenses; or

(2) A person whose conduct justified or would have justified the appointment of the receiver under § 10-21-6(a)(1).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-24 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-24
§ 10-9-24. Attachment and commitment of a member of the division of sheriffs.
Status: in_force

If an attachment shall be issued against any deputy sheriff, it may be directed to the commissioner of public safety and the superintendent of the Rhode Island state police, who shall have full power to execute the attachment; and if the deputy sheriff or deputy should be committed upon such process, he or she may be committed to the adult correctional institutions.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-21-25 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-21 / Section 10-21-25
§ 10-21-25. Effect of enforcement by secured party.
Status: in_force

A request by a secured party for appointment of a receiver, the appointment of a receiver, or application by a secured party of receivership property or proceeds to the secured obligation does not:

(1) Make the secured party a mortgagee in possession of the real property;

(2) Impose any duty on the secured party under § 6A-9-207;

(3) Make the secured party an agent of the owner;

(4) Constitute an election of remedies that precludes a later action to enforce the secured obligation;

(5) Make the secured obligation unenforceable; or

(6) Limit any right available to the secured party with respect to the secured obligation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-10 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-9 / Section 10-9-10
§ 10-9-10. Body brought with return or statement.
Status: in_force

The person who makes the return or statement shall, at the same time, bring the body of the party, if in his or her custody or power or under his or her restraint, according to the command of the writ, unless prevented by the sickness or infirmity of the party.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-6-11 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-6 / Section 10-6-11
§ 10-6-11. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-18-17 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-18 / Section 10-18-17
§ 10-18-17. Duration of proceedings.
Status: in_force

(a) Receivership proceedings under this chapter shall continue during the pendency of the plan or until all debts of the debtor are sooner paid or these proceedings are sooner terminated as provided in this chapter.

(b) Upon termination of these proceedings, the court shall discharge the receiver and notify the debtors employer who had been subject to an assignment of wages under this chapter that the debtor is no longer subject to such assignment. The receiver shall return to the debtor all assignments received by him or her under this chapter marked Cancelled.

(c) If any claim covered by the plan is unpaid in whole or in part at the termination of the plan, all interest accrued during the pendency of these proceedings and unpaid shall be added to the principal amount of the debt, but that interest shall not bear additional interest thereafter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-5-32 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-5 / Section 10-5-32
§ 10-5-32. Surety on defendants bond  Lien on suretys real estate.
Status: in_force

Whenever a member of the division of sheriffs shall take a bond for the release of goods and chattels attached on an original writ or a writ of mesne process, in which the ad damnum shall be more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), the bond shall be in the penal sum of the amount of damages stated in the writ, with some surety company authorized to do business in this state as surety, unless the defendant can furnish as surety a resident of the state satisfactory to the officer taking the bond, who is the owner of real estate in this state having a value over all incumbrances thereon, equal to the penal sum of the amount of damages stated in the writ. In case the owner of such real estate is accepted as surety, the bond shall contain a description of the real estate, so that the real estate may be readily identified in the records of land evidence of the city or town in which it is situated, and also a statement by the surety of the value of the real estate free from all incumbrances, and the description and the valuation shall be sworn to by the surety, and his or her affidavit shall be made a part of the bond. Before the goods and chattels are released, an attested copy of the bond shall be filed with the recorder of deeds, but if there is no recorder of deeds, then with a city or town clerk of the city or town in which the real estate is situated, and the copy shall be recorded in the same manner as copies of writs of attachment are recorded under the provisions of this chapter, and the bond shall be a lien upon the real estate described in the bond until the action in which the attachment was made is disposed of, or the bond is cancelled by the plaintiff, or by his or her attorney of record, or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The officer taking the bond shall be allowed a fee of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for making a copy of the bond, and the fee for the copy, together with the fee for recording, shall be a part of the costs in the case. Any lien created by the provisions of this section may be established, foreclosed, and enforced by a civil action, which action may be heard, tried, and determined according to the usages in chancery and the principles of equity.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-3-21 — RI Code / Title 10 / Chapter 10-3 / Section 10-3-21
§ 10-3-21. Sureties  Bound to arbitration award on construction contract.
Status: in_force

(a) If a contractor principal on a bond furnished to guarantee performance or payment on a construction contract and the claimant are parties to a written contract with a provision to submit to arbitration any controversy thereafter arising under the contract, the arbitration provisions shall apply to the surety for all disputes involving questions of the claimants right of recovery against the surety. Either the claimant, the contractor principal, or surety may demand arbitration in accordance with the written contract in one arbitration proceeding. The arbitration award shall decide all controversies subject to arbitration between the claimant, on the one hand, and the contractor principal and surety on the other hand, including all questions involving liability of the contractor principal and surety on the construction bond, but a claimant must file suit for recovery against the surety within the time limits set forth by law or by the terms of the bond when there are no applicable statutory provisions. The arbitration shall be in accordance with § 10-3-1 et seq. and the court shall enter judgment on the arbitration as provided in the agreement.

(b) The arbitrator or arbitrators, if more than one, shall make findings of fact as to the compliance with the requirements for recovery against the surety, and those findings of fact shall be a part of the award binding on all parties to the arbitration.