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CT Gen Stat § 52-508 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-508 - Receiver to file semiannual statements.

 Each such receiver shall, during the first week in April and in October in each year, sign, swear to and file with the clerk of the court by which he was appointed a full and detailed account of his actions as receiver for the preceding six months, together with a statement of all orders of court passed during the six months and the present condition and prospects of the property in his charge. Upon filing of the account, the receiver shall cause a motion for a hearing and approval of the account to be placed on the short calendar.(1949 Rev., S. 8244; P.A. 82-160, S. 197.)History: P.A. 82-160 replaced “estate” with “property” and rephrased the section.Damage for violation is set by statute. 7 CS 521.
CT Gen Stat § 52-509 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-509 - Appointment of receiver of partnership.

 (a) When any partnership is dissolved and the partners cannot agree upon the disposition of the partnership property and the settlement of the affairs of the partnership, any of them may apply to the superior court for the judicial district in which any of the partners resides, or in which the property of the partnership is situated, and, if the court is not in session, then to any judge of the Superior Court, for the appointment of a receiver to hold the business and all of the property, both real and personal, belonging to the partnership, and dispose of, manage and apply the property as the court or the judge may direct.(b) Upon receiving an application, the court or judge shall immediately appoint a day for the hearing upon the application, and shall make such order relative to notice of the application and of the hearing to the other partners as may be deemed proper, provided the hearing shall be at least six days from the service of the order of notice. The court or judge upon such hearing may appoint a receiver for the partnership, who shall be subject to the orders of the court.(1949 Rev., S. 8245; P.A. 82-160, S. 198.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.Court may hear the application forthwith, if the adverse parties consent. 41 C. 305; 66 C. 357. Statute of lis pendens not applicable to action for appointment. Id., 350. Right of equity to wind up partnership. 73 C. 606. Equity has full jurisdiction of a suit for an accounting and settlement of partnership affairs; what must be contained in a final account. 147 C. 160.Cited. 15 CS 433.
CT Gen Stat § 52-510 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-510 - Power of court over partnership property.

 The Superior Court, and when court is not in session any judge thereof, may make such orders relative to the management or closing up of the business of such partnership, and to the sale, division or other disposal of its real and personal property, as may be necessary to protect the rights and interests of each partner and of the creditors of such partnership.(1949 Rev., S. 8246; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 52; P.A. 82-160, S. 199.)History: 1967 act substituted “when said court is not sitting” for “in vacation”; P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.
CT Gen Stat § 52-511 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-511 - Receiver entitled to control of partnership property.

 Upon the appointment of a receiver for a partnership, he shall be entitled to the immediate possession and control of all its property, both real and personal, subject to the order of the Superior Court; but any such appointment, or any order of the court, may be modified or vacated on the application to the court of any party to the proceedings, reasonable notice of the application and of the time and place of the hearing thereon having first been given to every other party.(1949 Rev., S. 8247; P.A. 82-160, S. 200.)History: P.A. 82-160 made minor changes in wording.That statute “vests” the partnership property in the receiver on his appointment does not alter the nature of the application. 66 C. 359; 87 C. 369.
CT Gen Stat § 52-513 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-513 - Court may remove receiver at pleasure and fill vacancy.

 Receivers may be removed at any time, at the pleasure of the court by which they were appointed or, if such court is not in session, by a judge thereof; and, if any receiver is removed or declines to act or dies, the court that appointed him, or, if such court is not in session, a judge thereof, may fill the vacancy.(1949 Rev., S. 8249.)Due notice should be given prior to removal; procedure; receiver cannot appeal from removal. 70 C. 473. Includes appointment in chambers of new temporary receiver where one originally appointed has died. 76 C. 257. Cited. 196 C. 172.
CT Gen Stat § 52-514 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 920 - Receivers|Section 52-514 - Receivership; dissolution of attachment and levy of execution; costs.

 (a) The commencement of proceedings for the appointment of a receiver of a corporation or a partnership shall dissolve all attachments and all levies of executions not completed, made within the preceding sixty days, on the property of the corporation or partnership.(b) If the property is subsequently taken from the receiver so that it cannot be made subject to the orders of the court in the settlement of the affairs of the corporation or partnership or if the receivership is terminated by order of the court pending the settlement of the affairs of the corporation or partnership, the attachments and levies of execution shall revive. The time from the commencement of the proceedings to the time when the receiver is dispossessed of the property, or to the time when the court finds that the property is not subject to the orders of the court, or to the time when the trust is terminated, shall be excluded from the computation in determining the continuance of the lien created by the attachment.(c) Attaching or levying creditors shall be allowed the amount of their legal costs, accruing before the time of the appointment of a receiver, as a preferred claim against the property of the corporation or partnership, if their respective claims upon which the attachments are founded are allowed, in whole or in part.(1949 Rev., S. 8250; P.A. 82-160, S. 201.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.Creditor's rights to attach or levy are suspended by the appointment. 66 C. 359; 70 C. 232; 106 C. 165. Statute has no application to legal proceedings in other states. 71 C. 353. Statute applies to suits commenced in the federal as well as in the state courts. 73 C. 154, 155. Action may, however, be pursued. 85 C. 278.
CT Gen Stat § 52-516 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-516 - Commencement of action of replevin. Prejudgment remedy.

 (a) An action of replevin shall be commenced by a writ of summons or attachment, describing the parties, the court to which it is returnable and the time and place of appearance. The writ shall be signed as in other civil actions and may run into any judicial district.(b) An action of replevin, to the extent that it includes a prejudgment remedy as defined in section 52-278a, shall not be allowed unless the provisions of sections 52-278a to 52-278f, inclusive, are complied with.(1949 Rev., S. 8252; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 82-160, S. 203.)History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and added Subsec. (b) prohibiting actions of replevin that include prejudgment remedies as defined in Sec. 52-278a unless the provisions of Secs. 52-278a to 52-278f, inclusive, are complied with.See Sec. 51-15 re rules of procedure in certain civil actions.Cited. 66 C. 549. Writ without complaint is a nullity; not amendable; remedy is to erase from docket; defendant has no right to plead further or to damages. 97 C. 399; 98 C. 229. Effect of returning writ to wrong court. 105 C. 673. Misdescription of property replevied; cured by provision in original conditional bill of sale permitting vendor on default to enter and take possession. Id., 675. Cited. 222 C. 361.
CT Gen Stat § 52-517 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-517 - Replevin for property attached.

 When any property is held by an officer by virtue of a writ of attachment, any person other than the defendant having a general or special property interest therein with a right to the immediate possession thereof, and, when the property so held is claimed by the defendant to be exempt from execution, the defendant may bring an action of replevin against the officer alone, or against the plaintiff in the writ of attachment, or against both, to recover the property.(1949 Rev., S. 8253; P.A. 82-160, S. 204.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.Replevin lies by a trustee for trust property which was attached as his own individual property. 36 C. 13; Id., 105. Prior to 1878, the attaching plaintiff alone could be sued in replevin. 45 C. 157. Statutory remedy was unquestionably within the legislative power. 68 C. 9. Parties to action; judgment against officer as estoppel. 70 C. 340; 74 C. 397. Not maintainable by conditional vendor involved in conspiracy to defraud vendee's creditors. 128 C. 199. Nor by husband to recover vehicles attached in suit against wife which he had registered in her name to prevent attachment by his creditors. Id., 506. Only statutory method for recovery of exempt property. 136 C. 641.
CT Gen Stat § 52-520 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-520 - Determination of jurisdiction of court.

 Section 52-520 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8256; P.A. 76-436, S. 670, 681.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-521 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-521 - Replevin; service; new bond; voiding of process.

 (a) The officer who replevies property shall leave a true and attested copy of the process with the defendant, or at his usual place of abode, within three days after the replevy, and shall retain the property replevied in his custody for twenty-four hours after leaving the copy, unless the defendant endorses on the writ that he is satisfied with the amount and sufficiency of the recognizance taken on issuing the writ.(b) If the defendant is not satisfied with the recognizance, he may, at any time before the return day of the writ, cite the plaintiff or his attorney, or the officer serving the writ, if the property still remains in his custody, to appear at once before a judge of the superior court where the replevin was effected, to respond to a motion for a new bond. The judge may hear the motion and, at his discretion, order a new or further bond, conditioned like the recognizance taken on issuing the writ, signed by the obligors, and delivered to the defendant, by whom it shall be transmitted to the court to which the writ was made returnable. If the order is made while the property replevied remains in the custody of the officer, he shall not deliver the property to the plaintiff until the bond is given.(c) If an order for a new bond is not complied with, or if the officer fails to leave with, or at the usual place of abode of, the defendant a true and attested copy of the writ, or to retain the property in his custody, as hereinbefore provided, the writ of replevin shall be null and void.(d) If it appears to the court before which an action of replevin is pending that the replevin bond attached to the writ is insufficient, the court may, at its discretion, order a new or further replevin bond to be given by the plaintiff, conditioned like the recognizance taken on issuing the writ. If the plaintiff fails to comply with the order, he shall be nonsuited.(1949 Rev., S. 8257; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 129; 152, S. 79; P.A. 74-183, S. 114, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 101, 681; P.A. 82-160, S. 207.)History: 1959 acts added circuit court judge and deleted county commissioner; P.A. 74-183 removed circuit court judges from purview of section, reflecting reorganization of judicial system, effective December 31, 1974; P.A. 76-436 removed reference to appearance before justice of the peace or judge of common pleas court, reflecting transfer of all trial jurisdiction to superior court, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.Cited. 63 C. 569. Immaterial variance in copy of affidavit is not a ground of abatement. 65 C. 542. Though writ is defectively served, if officer takes goods as agent of owners, they may retain them. 87 C. 369. Application by plaintiff for a new bond waives right to plea in abatement for irregularities in recognizance. 111 C. 112. Cited. 222 C. 361.
CT Gen Stat § 52-522 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-522 - Pleadings.

 In an action of replevin, no cause of action, except of replevin or for a conversion of the goods described in the writ of replevin, may be stated. The pleadings in such action shall conform to the requirements of pleadings in civil actions so far as such requirements may be consistent with the substantive rights secured by this chapter.(1949 Rev., S. 8258; P.A. 82-160, S. 208.)History: P.A. 82-160 made minor changes in wording.See Sec. 51-15 re rules of procedure in certain civil actions.
CT Gen Stat § 52-523 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-523 - Complaint.

 If the complaint in an action of replevin contains a sufficient statement of the plaintiff's title and right of possession, a general allegation that the defendant wrongfully took the goods shall be sufficient without setting forth the facts showing that the taking was wrongful. If the taking of the goods is not complained of, but the action is founded upon their wrongful detention, the complaint shall set forth the facts showing that the detention was wrongful.(1949 Rev., S. 8259; P.A. 82-160, S. 209.)History: P.A. 82-160 added “in an action of replevin” after the word “complaint”.
CT Gen Stat § 52-524 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-524 - Defenses.

 All defenses to an action of replevin, other than those to the jurisdiction or in abatement, including avowry, alleging the defendant's right to take and hold the goods, and disclaimer, renouncing any interest in the goods, shall be made by answer or demurrer. Those defenses claiming that the taking is for a lawful cause shall be by way of answer alleging the special facts upon which they are based. If the defendant claims a return of the goods or damages, he shall make the claim by way of counterclaim.(1949 Rev., S. 8260; P.A. 82-160, S. 210.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section, after “avowry” added “alleging the defendant's right to take and hold the goods” and after “disclaimer” added “renouncing any interest in the goods”.Writ without a complaint is a nullity; remedy is motion to erase from docket; defect is not amendable. 97 C. 399; 98 C. 229. Defendant not entitled to damages unless he demands them in counterclaim; recovery restricted to damages growing out of act of replevy. 101 C. 61. Misdescription of property replevied cured by provision in conditional sale contract allowing vendor, on default, to enter and retake possession. 105 C. 675.When defendant simply filed general denial, court could award costs but not damages. 11 CS 334. Cited. 14 CS 458.
CT Gen Stat § 52-525 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-525 - Statement of title.

 (a) An allegation by either party that the party pleading or a third person was, at the time when the action of replevin was commenced, or at the time the goods were replevied, the owner of the goods, or that they were then his property, is a sufficient statement of title unless the right of action or defense rests upon a right of possession by virtue of a special property interest.(b) If the right of action or defense rests upon a right of possession by virtue of a special property interest, the pleading shall set forth the facts upon which the special property interest depends so as to show that, at the time when the action was commenced or the goods were replevied, as the case may be, the party pleading or the third person was entitled to the possession of the goods.(c) The defendant may, by answer, defend on the ground that a third person was entitled to the possession of the goods without connecting himself with the latter's title.(1949 Rev., S. 8261; P.A. 82-160, S. 211.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.Cited. 128 C. 198. Does not alter rule that plaintiff alleging general property and right to immediate possession must prove it to prevail. Id., 508. Where right of action rests upon a right of possession by virtue of a special property, the complaint must set forth the facts. 135 C. 517.
CT Gen Stat § 52-526 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-526 - Judgment.

 No judgment for a return of the goods or for damages may be given to a defendant under a mere denial of the acts complained of, nor may a judgment of return be rendered in favor of a defendant who has either filed a disclaimer of interest in the goods or not filed a counterclaim claiming a return of the goods replevied.(1949 Rev., S. 8262; P.A. 82-160, S. 212.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.Plea of lien by attachment. 14 C. 116, 117. Attachment dissolved. Id., 434; 16 C. 573; 18 C. 558; 31 C. 119. Informality in avowry; judgment on avowry for a taking damage feasant. 4 D. 144. Presumption to support judgment on general issue. 36 C. 115. Judgment of return, on plea in abatement. 17 C. 242. Time of filing disclaimer rests in the discretion of the trial court. 41 C. 580. Wrongful detention not in issue unless disclaimer is filed with a general denial. 69 C. 451. Notice filed with the general issue is to be liberally construed in favor of the pleader. Id., 498, 499. Evidence admissible under the general issue. 70 C. 16. General issue alone does not raise issue as to demand for goods. 74 C. 23, see 71 C. 93. New trial given where defendant had damages without counterclaim in violation of section; limitation as to elements of damage. 101 C. 61. Cited. 118 C. 225.Where defendant simply filed general denial, court could not direct plaintiff to return a washing machine to defendant which defendant purchased under a conditional sales contract. 11 CS 334. Cited. 14 CS 458.
CT Gen Stat § 52-527 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-527 - Transfer of cause to higher court.

 Section 52-527 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8263; P.A. 82-160, S. 259.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-528 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-528 - Procedure on withdrawal or nonsuit of plaintiff.

 If the plaintiff, in any action of replevin, fails to appear or withdraws or is nonsuited, before or after issue is joined, the defendant may file an answer in the nature of an avowry alleging his right to take and hold the goods and a counterclaim stating the injury he has sustained and his claim for damages. Thereafter, the court shall render judgment for the defendant to recover such damages as he has sustained, and his costs, and for a return of the property replevied; except that, in any action where the plaintiff withdrew by mistake, the court shall reinstate the case as though it had not been withdrawn.(1949 Rev., S. 8264; 1967, P.A. 106; P.A. 82-160, S. 213.)History: 1967 act added exception for withdrawal by mistake; P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and, after “avowry”, added “alleging his right to take and hold the goods”.Cited. 16 C. 578. Nature of judgment for return of goods rendered on withdrawal of action. 70 C. 605. Erasure or dismissal for want of jurisdiction not a “nonsuit”. 98 C. 230.
CT Gen Stat § 52-529 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 921 - Replevin|Section 52-529 - Burden of proof. Evidence. Damages and costs.

 If the plaintiff's right to the possession of the property described in the writ of replevin is put in issue, without any disclaimer of title by the defendant, the plaintiff shall be bound to prove his right to possession, and may show the damages sustained by him by reason of the detention of the property by the defendant. If the defendant in his answer by way of counterclaim claims damages for the replevin, he may give evidence of the damages. Judgment, if for the plaintiff, whether upon default or trial, shall be for his damages and costs, and, if for the defendant, shall be for a return of the property and for his damages and costs.(1949 Rev., S. 8265; P.A. 82-160, S. 214.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.When judgment for return of property a mere formality. 51 C. 176. Plaintiff entitled to full costs, although he fails to prove title to all the articles. 54 C. 83. Plaintiff cannot prove a “general or special property” in goods which are not distinguishable from others of like kind. Id., 317. Plaintiff not bound to prove that property which was not replevied was in this state when wrongfully detained. 66 C. 546. Defendant not obliged to claim damages; may recover them subsequently in suit on replevin bond. 70 C. 340; 71 C. 86; 74 C. 392; Id., 553; 101 C. 417. Damages where lunch wagon is replevied and defendant prevails. 74 C. 552. Judgment of return and for costs proper where a plea to the jurisdiction is sustained. 64 C. 74. Nature of judgment for return of goods. 70 C. 605. Judgment as an estoppel in action on bond. 71 C. 698. Remittitur required as condition of not going to new trial. 81 C. 101. Effect of judgment for plaintiff on general issue. 69 C. 450. Costs recoverable. 40 C. 111; 48 C. 133; 54 C. 83. All the issues should ordinarily be tried together. 91 C. 319. Obligee entitled to nominal damages on bond where return of goods and payment of damages is refused, though subsequently made; 76 C. 683; so where third party, owner of goods, had taken them and suit was for expenses. 96 C. 683. No damages can be given in replevin action unless counterclaimed by defendant; elements of damage. 101 C. 61. Judgment for nominal damages on counterclaim deprives defendant of right to sue again on replevin bond; res judicata. Id., 416. Cited. 118 C. 476. Plaintiff must prevail by strength of his title and not by weakness of defendant's. 128 C. 198; Id., 508. Proof merely of actual possession by plaintiff of vehicles registered in another's name not sufficient. Id. Replevin is a purely statutory action. 152 C. 695.Cited. 18 CA 1.