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Ohio Rev Code § 2307.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.06 | Suit on Bond.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a person forfeits his bond, or renders his sureties liable thereon, a person injured thereby, or who is entitled to the benefit of the security, may bring an action thereon, in his own name, against the person and his sureties, to recover the amount to which he is entitled by reason of the delinquency, which action may be prosecuted on a certified copy of the bond. A judgment for one delinquency does not preclude the same for another person from bringing an action on the instrument for another delinquency.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.07 | Copy of Bond.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|On tender of the proper fee, the custodian of the bond referred to in section 2307.06 of the Revised Code shall deliver a copy thereof to a person claiming to be injured. The requirements of such section are not imperative, if other provision is made by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.09 | Married Woman May Sue and Be Sued.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A married woman may sue and be sued as if she were unmarried, and her husband may be joined with her only when the cause of action is in favor of or against both.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.10 | Wife's Right to Defend.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When husband and wife are sued together, the wife may defend for her own right; and if the husband neglects to defend she also may defend for his right.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.12 | Next Friend Liable for Costs.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The next friend shall be liable for the costs of the action brought by him. When a next friend is insolvent the court, on motion, may require security for such costs.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.131 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.131 | Appointment of Trustee of Interest of Person Not Yet Born - Representing Future Interest of Charitable Trust.

Effective: October 4, 1955|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 30 - 101st General Assembly|If in any action it shall appear that any persons not yet born are or may become entitled to, or may upon coming into being claim to be entitled to, any future interest, legal or equitable, whether arising by way of remainder, reversion, possibility of reverter, executory devise, upon the happening of a condition subsequent, or otherwise, in any property, real or personal, involved in such suit, the court may, and upon the application of any party to the action shall, appoint some competent and disinterested person as trustee of the interest of such persons not yet born, to appear for and represent in such cause such future interest and to defend the suit for and on behalf of such persons not yet born; and any judgment or decree rendered in such suit shall be as binding and effectual for all purposes as though such persons were born and were parties to such suit. Such persons not yet born need not be served by publication.In case the beneficiary of any such future interest is a charitable trust, not in being, service shall be made upon the attorney general who shall represent such interest.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.14 | Compensation and Replacement of Guardian Ad Litem or Trustee.

Effective: May 14, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 157 - 127th General Assembly|The court shall require a guardian ad litem, or a trustee appointed under section 2307.131 of the Revised Code, faithfully to discharge the guardian ad litem's or trustee's duty, and upon failure to do so, may remove the guardian ad litem or trustee, and appoint another. The court may fix a compensation for the guardian ad litem's or trustee's services, which shall be taxed in the costs against the minor or the unborn persons.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.15 | Determination of Insanity of a Party.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the insanity of a party is not manifest to the court, and the fact of insanity is disputed by a party or an attorney in the action, the court may try the question, or impanel a jury to try it.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.16 | Partnership May Sue or Be Sued by Its Name.

Effective: July 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 108 - 124th General Assembly|A partnership formed for the purpose of carrying on a trade or business in this state, or holding property in this state, may sue or be sued by the usual or ordinary name that it has assumed, or by which it is known.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.17 | Person Claiming Property Interest May Be Made a Party.

Effective: July 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 108 - 124th General Assembly|In an action for the recovery of real or personal property, a person claiming an interest in the property, on application, may be made a party.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.18 | Officer Acting Under Process May Interplead.

Effective: July 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 108 - 124th General Assembly|A judicial officer against whom an action is brought to recover personal property taken by the officer on execution, or for the proceeds of such property sold by the officer, upon exhibiting to the court the process under which the officer acted, with the officer's affidavit that the property was taken or sold by the officer under such process, may have the benefit of Civil Rule 22, against the party in whose favor the execution issued.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.23 | Determining Percentage of Tortious Conduct Attributable to Party in Tort Action.

Effective: April 7, 2005|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 80 - 125th General Assembly|(A) In determining the percentage of tortious conduct attributable to a party in a tort action under section 2307.22 or sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code, the court in a nonjury action shall make findings of fact, and the jury in a jury action shall return a general verdict accompanied by answers to interrogatories, that shall specify all of the following: (1) The percentage of tortious conduct that proximately caused the injury or loss to person or property or the wrongful death that is attributable to the plaintiff and to each party to the tort action from whom the plaintiff seeks recovery in this action;(2) The percentage of tortious conduct that proximately caused the injury or loss to person or property or the wrongful death that is attributable to each person from whom the plaintiff does not seek recovery in this action.(B) The sum of the percentages of tortious conduct as determined pursuant to division (A) of this section shall equal one hundred per cent.(C) For purposes of division (A)(2) of this section, it is an affirmative defense for each party to the tort action from whom the plaintiff seeks recovery in this action that a specific percentage of the tortious conduct that proximately caused the injury or loss to person or property or the wrongful death is attributable to one or more persons from whom the plaintiff does not seek recovery in this action. Any party to the tort action from whom the plaintiff seeks recovery in this action may raise an affirmative defense under this division at any time before the trial of the action.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.24 | Joint and Several Liability That Is Not Based in Tort.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 120 - 124th General Assembly|(A) Sections 2307.22 and 2307.23 of the Revised Code do not affect joint and several liability that is not based in tort.(B) Sections 2307.22 and 2307.23 of the Revised Code do not affect any other section of the Revised Code or the common law of this state to the extent that the other section or common law makes a principal, master, or other person vicariously liable for the tortious conduct of an agent, servant, or other person. For purposes of section 2307.22 of the Revised Code, a principal and agent, a master and servant, or other persons having a vicarious liability relationship shall constitute a single party when determining percentages of tortious conduct in a tort action in which vicarious liability is asserted.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.26 | Enforcing Contribution One or More Tortfeasors.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 120 - 124th General Assembly|If a judgment that imposes joint and several liability has been entered in an action against one or more tortfeasors for the same injury or loss to person or property or for the same wrongful death, contribution may be enforced in that action by judgment in favor of one against other judgment debtors, by motion, upon notice to all parties to the action. If there is a judgment for the injury or loss to person or property or the wrongful death against the tortfeasor seeking contribution, that tortfeasor shall commence any separate action to enforce contribution within one year after the judgment has become final by lapse of time for appeal or after appellate review.If there is no judgment for the injury or loss to person or property or the wrongful death against the tortfeasor seeking contribution, that tortfeasor's right of contribution is barred unless either of the following applies:(A) That tortfeasor has discharged by payment the common liability within the statute of limitations period applicable to the claimant's right of action against that tortfeasor and has commenced that tortfeasor's action for contribution within one year after the payment.(B) That tortfeasor has agreed while an action is pending against that tortfeasor to discharge the common liability and has paid within one year after the agreement the common liability and commenced that tortfeasor's action for contribution.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.27 | Satisfying Judgment - Apportioning Liability.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 120 - 124th General Assembly|(A) The recovery of a judgment for an injury or loss to person or property or a wrongful death against one tortfeasor does not of itself discharge the other tortfeasors from liability for the injury, loss, or wrongful death unless the judgment is satisfied. The satisfaction of the judgment does not impair any right of contribution.(B) Valid answers to interrogatories by a jury or findings of fact by a court sitting without a jury in determining the percentage of liability of several defendants for an injury or loss to person or property or a wrongful death shall be binding as among those defendants in determining their right to contribution.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.28 | Release or a Covenant Not to Sue or Not to Enforce Judgment.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 120 - 124th General Assembly|When a release or a covenant not to sue or not to enforce judgment is given in good faith to one of two or more persons for the same injury or loss to person or property or the same wrongful death, both of the following apply: (A) The release or covenant does not discharge any of the other tortfeasors from liability for the injury, loss, or wrongful death unless its terms otherwise provide, but it reduces the claim against the other tortfeasors to the extent of the greater of any amount stipulated by the release or the covenant or the amount of the consideration paid for it, except that the reduction of the claim against the other tortfeasors shall not apply in any case in which the reduction results in the plaintiff recovering less than the total amount of the plaintiff's compensatory damages awarded by the trier of fact and except that in any case in which the reduction does not apply the plaintiff shall not recover more than the total amount of the plaintiff's compensatory damages awarded by the trier of fact.(B) The release or covenant discharges the person to whom it is given from all liability for contribution to any other tortfeasor.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.29 | Contribution Rights Relation to Other Statutes.

Effective: April 7, 2005|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 80 - 125th General Assembly|No provision of sections 2307.25 to 2307.28 of the Revised Code applies to a tort claim to the extent that sections 2307.22 to 2307.24 or sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code make a party against whom a judgment is entered liable to the plaintiff only for the proportionate share of that party as described in those sections.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.30 | Separate Composition of Joint Debtor With Creditor.

Effective: August 6, 2008|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 332 - 127th General Assembly|(A) A joint debtor may make a separate composition or compromise with any creditor. Any composition or compromise shall be a full and effectual discharge to the debtor who makes it, but only to that person, from all liability to the creditor with whom it is made, according to its terms. A debtor who makes such a composition or compromise may take from the creditor a note or memorandum in writing exonerating the debtor from all individual liability incurred by reason of the joint debt. That note or memorandum may be given in evidence to bar the creditor's right of recovery against the debtor. If joint liability is by judgment in a court of record in this state, on production to and filing of the note or memorandum with the clerk of the court, the clerk shall discharge the judgment of record as far as the compromising debtor is concerned. (B) A compromise or composition with one joint debtor shall not discharge other joint debtors or impair the right of the creditor to proceed against other joint debtors who have not been discharged. A joint debtor who is proceeded against may counterclaim against the creditor for any demand that could have been asserted as a counterclaim had the suit by the creditor been brought against all of the joint debtors.(C) A compromise or discharge of one joint debtor does not prevent the other joint debtors from availing themselves of any defense, except that they shall not set up the discharge of one debtor as a discharge of the others unless it appears that all were intended to be discharged. The discharge of one debtor is deemed a payment to the creditor equal to the proportionate liability of the discharged debtor.(D) A compromise or composition by a joint debtor with a creditor does not affect any right the other joint debtors have to call on the discharged debtor for that person's ratable portion of the joint debt.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.381 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.381 | Long-Arm Statute Definitions.

Effective: September 28, 1965|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 406 - 106th General Assembly|As used in sections 2307.381 to 2307.385, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "person" includes an individual, his executor, administrator, or other personal representative, or a corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal or commercial entity, who is a nonresident of this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.382 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.382 | Personal Jurisdiction.

Effective: December 16, 2020|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 272, Senate Bill 10 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action arising from the person's: (1) Transacting any business in this state; (2) Contracting to supply services or goods in this state; (3) Causing tortious injury by an act or omission in this state; (4) Causing tortious injury in this state by an act or omission outside this state if the person regularly does or solicits business, or engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered in this state; (5) Causing injury in this state to any person by breach of warranty expressly or impliedly made in the sale of goods outside this state when the person might reasonably have expected such person to use, consume, or be affected by the goods in this state, provided that the person also regularly does or solicits business, or engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered in this state; (6) Causing tortious injury in this state to any person by an act outside this state committed with the purpose of injuring persons, when the person might reasonably have expected that some person would be injured thereby in this state; (7) Causing tortious injury to any person by a criminal act, any element of which takes place in this state, which the person commits or in the commission of which the person is guilty of complicity. (8) Having an interest in, using, or possessing real property in this state; (9) Contracting to insure any person, property, or risk located within this state at the time of contracting. (B) For purposes of this section, a person who enters into an agreement, as a principal, with a sales representative for the solicitation of orders in this state is transacting business in this state. As used in this division, "principal" and "sales representative" have the same meanings as in section 1335.11 of the Revised Code. (C) In addition to a court's exercise of personal jurisdiction under division (A) of this section, a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person on any basis consistent with the Ohio Constitution and the United States Constitution.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.385 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.385 | Jurisdiction.

Effective: September 28, 1965|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 406 - 106th General Assembly|A court of this state may exercise jurisdiction on any other basis authorized in the Revised Code notwithstanding sections 2307.381 to 2307.385, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.39 | Agreements to Be Bound by Ohio Law.

Effective: June 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 9 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any person may bring a civil action in a court of this state against an individual, corporation, or other person who is a resident of, incorporated under the laws of, or otherwise engaged in the conduct of business in a foreign nation or a province, territory, or other political subdivision of a foreign nation, against a foreign nation, or against a province, territory, or other political subdivision of a foreign nation upon a cause of action that arises out of or relates to a contingent or other contract, agreement, or undertaking, whether or not it bears a reasonable relation to this state, if the contract, agreement, or undertaking contains both of the following provisions: (1) An agreement by the parties to be governed in their rights and duties under the contract, agreement, or undertaking, in whole or in part, by the law of this state;(2) An agreement by the parties to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state.(B) The court shall not stay or dismiss a civil action brought in accordance with division (A) of this section on the ground of inconvenient forum. In the civil action, the court shall apply the law of this state as agreed upon by the parties.(C) This section applies to a transaction covered by section 1301.301 of the Revised Code unless the transaction is subject to a limitation on choice of law specified in division (B) of that section. This section does not apply to a contract, agreement, or undertaking for labor or personal services or for a consumer transaction, as defined by section 1345.01 of the Revised Code.(D) This section does not limit or deny, and shall not be construed as limiting or denying the enforcement of a provision respecting choice of law or choice of forum in a contract, agreement, or undertaking to which this section does not apply.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.40 | Members and Officers of the General Assembly Privileged From Answering.

Effective: September 17, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 994 - 110th General Assembly|A member of the senate or house of representatives, or an officer of either branch of the general assembly, shall be privileged from answering to a suit instituted against him in a county other than the one in which he resides upon a cause of action which accrued ten days before the first day of a session of the general assembly of which he is an officer or a member. All proceedings in actions to which such a person is a party shall be stayed during such session, and the time necessarily employed in going thereto and returning therefrom.
Ohio Rev Code § 2307.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas|Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions|Section 2307.41 | Venue for Aircraft Negligence.

Effective: July 25, 1961|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 9 - 104th General Assembly|Actions for injury to a person or property caused by the negligence of the pilot, operator, legal or equitable owner, lessor, or lessee of an aircraft may be brought by the person injured against such pilot, operator, legal or equitable owner, lessor, or lessee in the county in which such injury occurred, or in any county on or over which the aircraft passes in the course of the voyage. A summons in such action against any defendant shall be issued to the sheriff of any county within this state in which such defendant resides and shall be served as in other civil actions.