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CT Gen Stat § 52-434c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 910 - Committees, Auditors and Referees|Section 52-434c - Certain referees assigned to Appellate Court. Eligibility. Powers and jurisdiction.

 In addition to the powers and jurisdiction granted to state referees under sections 52-434 and 52-434a, a Chief Justice or a judge of the Supreme Court or Appellate Court, who has ceased to hold office as justice or judge because of having retired and who has become a state referee, may be designated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be eligible to be assigned by the Chief Judge of the Appellate Court to perform such duties of the office of judge of the Appellate Court as may be requested by the Chief Judge. The Chief Judge may assign no more than one state referee to sit on any one panel. No such designation may be for a term of more than one year. In performing the duties assigned, such retired Chief Justice or retired judge of the Supreme Court or Appellate Court shall exercise the same powers and jurisdiction as does a judge of the Superior Court who is qualified to serve as a judge on the Appellate Court.(P.A. 95-80, S. 1, 3; P.A. 97-178, S. 3.)History: P.A. 95-80 effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 97-178 eliminated requirement for prior written consent of parties or attorneys before referral of appeal to panel with state referee.
CT Gen Stat § 52-434d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 910 - Committees, Auditors and Referees|Section 52-434d - Special education administrative contested cases pilot program.

 Section 52-434d is repealed, effective October 1, 2014.(P.A. 00-204, S. 6, 13; P.A. 01-173, S. 47, 67; P.A. 14-207, S. 17.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-435 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 911 - Paternity Proceedings (See Chapter 815y)|Section 52-435 - Bastardy complaint by mother.

 Section 52-435 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8178, 8321; 1951, S. 3208d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 128; 639, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 602, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-436 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 911 - Paternity Proceedings (See Chapter 815y)|Section 52-436 - Continuance of case; evidence.

 Section 52-436 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8179; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-439 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 911 - Paternity Proceedings (See Chapter 815y)|Section 52-439 - Withdrawal, dismissal or settlement of case, consent.

 Section 52-439 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8181; 1957, P.A. 462, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 639, S. 4; 1963, P.A. 602, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-440 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 911 - Paternity Proceedings (See Chapter 815y)|Section 52-440 - When state or town may maintain suit.

 Section 52-440 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8182; 1957, P.A. 462, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-441 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 911 - Paternity Proceedings (See Chapter 815y)|Section 52-441 - Suit may be compromised by Welfare Commissioner or selectmen.

 Section 52-441 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8183; 1957, P.A. 462, S. 4; February, 1965, P.A. 406, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-447 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-447 - Petition to be heard by committee, unless parties agree.

 The petition, unless the parties thereto agree upon the judgment rendered thereon, shall be heard and decided by a committee of three disinterested property owners of the judicial district to be appointed by the court; and, if such committee is of the opinion that the flowing or taking of such land in the manner proposed will be of public use, it shall establish the height to which any such dam may be built and the water raised thereby, and the length of time or period during which the same may be kept up in each year thereafter, or the dimensions and location of any such discharge-ditches, aqueducts, watercourses or raceways, as the same may be built or improved; and shall assess the sum to be paid by the petitioner to the respondent for the right thus to overflow or take his land in the manner established in its report. In estimating the damage, such committee shall take into account any damage occasioned to any other land of the respondent, as well as to that overflowed or taken, and shall report its doings to such court, which shall add fifty per cent to the damages so assessed, as the sum to be paid for such right so to flow, take or injure such land.(1949 Rev., S. 8189; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.Certainty in report. 34 C. 86. Committee need not fix the height at precisely that asked for. 33 C. 552. Flowage law recognizes mills and manufacturing establishments as being for public use. 41 C. 91. Distinction as to taxation between land taken for profit and for a town water supply. 44 C. 371. Petitions are to be served by citation, as were bills in equity before the practice act. 49 C. 348. Evidence that petitioners are pecuniarily unable to avail themselves of the right sought is inadmissible. Id., 349. Specific issue held not to involve effect of flowage upon the public health. 52 C. 459. Statutes authorizing the taking or flowage of land by compulsory process should be strictly construed. 65 C. 323. Whether a law empowering riparian owners to create ice ponds on the land of others, against their will, can be supported, quaere. Id., 234. Cited. 69 C. 435.
CT Gen Stat § 52-448 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-448 - Not to interfere with existing dams or millsites.

 No such dam shall be erected, or watercourse made or altered, to the injury of any mill lawfully existing on such watercourse, or on the stream upon which such dam is to be erected, or from or into which such watercourse flows, or to the injury of any millsite on the same on which a mill or milldam has been lawfully erected and used, unless the right to maintain a mill on such last-mentioned site has been lost or defeated by abandonment or otherwise.(1949 Rev., S. 8190.)This protects waterpower near a mill, held by the mill owner with the intention at some future time to use it for the mill; 35 C. 496; 36 C. 310; although purchased with the knowledge that the petitioner was negotiating for the right to flow it. Id., 319. An abandoned millsite may be flowed. 35 C. 159. Setting up small mills, simply to protect the privilege from condemnation, and of no practical use, will be of no avail. Id., 513. A mill is a “lawfully existing” one, notwithstanding the dam may be a little higher than it should be, whereby land of the petitioner is overflowed. 40 C. 43. Continuance of intent to build on millsite is a question of fact. 49 C. 350. The question of the existence of and injury to a millsite and dam is one of fact. 52 C. 462. Cited. 92 C. 221.
CT Gen Stat § 52-449 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-449 - Procedure upon report of committee. New inquiry by court.

 Any person interested in the report of the committee may object to its acceptance for any irregularity or improper conduct, but, if accepted, it shall be final and conclusive except upon the question of damages. The court may set aside the report for any cause which may appear to it reasonable and, if required, shall inquire for itself whether such dam if erected would be of public use or not, notwithstanding any finding of the committee. If the court is of the opinion that such dam if erected would not be of public use, the petition shall be dismissed.(1949 Rev., S. 8191.)Cited. 52 C. 458.
CT Gen Stat § 52-450 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-450 - Reassessment of damages by jury; addition by court.

 Either party may move for a reassessment of the damages by a jury of six, which shall be conducted in the manner prescribed for the reestimate of the damages and benefits for the layout or alteration of highways, and the court shall add fifty per cent to the amount assessed by the jury for the value of the land, as the measure of damages to be paid for flowing or taking the land described in the petition.(1949 Rev., S. 8192.)See Sec. 13a-64 re reestimate of damages and benefits by jury in cases concerning highway construction.
CT Gen Stat § 52-451 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-451 - Objections to action of jury.

 Upon the return of the doings of such jury, any person interested therein may object to the acceptance of the same, and for any irregularity or improper conduct the court may set it aside and order a rehearing; but, if the court accepts such return, it shall be final in the matter of damages.(1949 Rev., S. 8193.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-452 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-452 - Costs of reassessment; bond.

 If the petitioner moves for a jury, he shall pay the costs of the application and hearing whether the jury raises the damages assessed by the committee or not; and, if the jury does not lessen such damages, he shall pay costs to the respondent, but, if the jury lessens the damages, he shall pay no costs to the respondent. If the jury raises the damages, the whole costs shall be taxed against the petitioner, and the court may require bonds for costs to the adverse party from the petitioner at any stage of the proceedings, and from the respondent to the petitioner, if the respondent moves for a jury.(1949 Rev., S. 8194.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-453 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-453 - Effect of assessment; payment of damages and costs.

 An assessment of damages so made shall be final and conclusive on the parties, their heirs and assigns, and give the petitioner, his heirs and assigns, forever, the right to keep up such dam as established; but the damages assessed, together with the costs, shall be paid to the respondent, or deposited for his use with the State Treasurer, before the water is flowed upon such lands and within sixty days after the proceedings on such petition have been ended. If such damages and costs are not so paid or deposited, the whole proceedings shall be of no effect.(1949 Rev., S. 8195; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 110.)History: 1961 act substituted state treasurer for county treasurer as recipient of deposit, county government having been abolished.When premature flooding of land will not violate proceedings. 52 C. 463.
CT Gen Stat § 52-454 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-454 - Costs of petition.

 The fees and expenses of the petition shall be paid by the petitioner unless it is otherwise specially provided, and shall be the same as are taxed for like services in laying out highways by the Superior Court.(1949 Rev., S. 8196.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-455 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 912 - Flowage Petitions|Section 52-455 - Second petition; expenses of first petition to be paid.

 If, in any case, the petitioner fails to pay or deposit the damages and costs that may be adjudged to the respondent, within said period of sixty days, and afterwards either the petitioner or any subsequent owner of the same water privilege for the improvement of which such petition was brought brings another petition against the same respondent for liberty to flow or take the same lands for the same purposes, the court to which such petition may be brought shall, on motion of the respondent, ascertain the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by him in defending against the former petition, and order them to be paid to him by the petitioner; and, if such payment is not made within the time limited in such order, the plaintiff shall be nonsuited.(1949 Rev., S. 8197.)Cited. 63 C. 569.
CT Gen Stat § 52-456 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-456 - Drain across land of another.

 When the owner of land may wish to drain it, either by the necessary deepening or widening of a natural stream or by other means, and is unable to agree with the proprietors of adjacent lands as to the mode of draining it and the damages, he may make complaint to the superior court for the judicial district where such land is, for power to drain it across the lands of such adjoining proprietors; which complaint shall be served on them in the same manner as in the case of civil actions.(1949 Rev., S. 6285; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.Drain constructed under statute must conduct water off the land on which it is discharged. 24 C. 170. Cited. 184 C. 575.Statute may be invoked against owners of land which is not contiguous with land sought to be drained. 25 CS 177.
CT Gen Stat § 52-457 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-457 - Damages.

 Upon such complaint, the court may appoint three disinterested property owners of the town where such land is situated, to determine the best mode of draining it, and the damages which will thereby accrue to the adjoining proprietors. Such property owners shall report, in writing, their doings to said court, and all persons interested therein may appear and remonstrate against the acceptance of such report, for any irregularity or improper conduct. If such report is accepted, it shall be conclusive except as to the matter of damages and said court may order the draining of such land in accordance with the report.(1949 Rev., S. 6286.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-458 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-458 - Reassessment of damages.

 Upon motion of either party, the court shall appoint three other disinterested property owners of such town to reassess the damages, who shall report their doings in writing to the court.(1949 Rev., S. 6287.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-459 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-459 - Setting aside reassessment.

 The court may set such report aside if, upon exception taken, it appears that such property owners have acted improperly; otherwise their report shall be conclusive as to the assessment of damages. If the court sets aside the report of such property owners, it shall order three other disinterested property owners to reassess the damages.(1949 Rev., S. 6288.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-460 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-460 - Payment of costs.

 If such property owners do not increase the damages, the applicants for such reassessment shall pay the costs of the application. Otherwise, costs shall be taxed at the discretion of the court.(1949 Rev., S. 6289, 6290.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-461 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 913 - Drainage|Section 52-461 - Obstruction to drainage.

 When any low lands have been drained by a ditch or current running thence in a natural course through the land of an adjoining proprietor and cannot advantageously be drained in any other course, and such drainage becomes obstructed, the owner of such low lands may give written notice to such adjoining owner to remove such obstruction so as to allow the water to pass off in its former accustomed manner. If such adjoining owner neglects to do so for thirty days after such notice, the owner of such low lands may call out two selectmen of the town wherein such lands lie, who shall view the same, having first given written notice to all parties interested of the time of their meeting for such purpose and, if they find the drainage of such low lands necessary and proper and that such drainage has become obstructed as aforesaid, they shall give written notice to such adjoining owner to remove such obstruction, in such manner as they may direct and upon such terms as to expense as may seem just. If such owner neglects to comply with such order to the acceptance of such selectmen for thirty days, such selectmen may perform the work so ordered or direct the owner of such low lands to do it to the acceptance of such selectmen, and the expense thereof as certified by such selectmen, including reasonable compensation for their services, shall be paid by such of the parties in interest and in such time as such selectmen may determine, to be recovered by any party entitled thereto by an action on this statute.(1949 Rev., S. 6291.)Cited. 170 C. 387.
CT Gen Stat § 52-467 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 915 - Habeas Corpus|Section 52-467 - Punishment for refusal to obey writ or accept copy.

 If any person having the custody of the body of anyone directed to be presented to the court or to a judge by a writ of habeas corpus duly served fails to present the body according to the command in the writ, or refuses to accept the copy of the writ offered in service, or in any way fraudulently avoids presenting the body according to the command, or, having presented the body, does not make return of the cause of detaining the person in custody, he shall be guilty of a contempt of court and may be punished for contempt by the court or judge by commitment, and shall pay to the person so held in custody two hundred dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 8203; P.A. 82-160, S. 170.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.
CT Gen Stat § 52-468 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 915 - Habeas Corpus|Section 52-468 - Commitment for contempt; application for discharge.

 The court may commit to prison, for any contempt of which the respondent has been guilty in this proceeding, for a period not exceeding sixty days; and the respondent may, at any time within such time of imprisonment, appear before the court which made the order of commitment, and apply for a discharge from imprisonment, which the court may, for sufficient cause shown, direct.(1949 Rev., S. 8204; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 48; P.A. 78-280, S. 111, 127.)History: 1967 act substituted “when the court is not sitting” for “in vacation”; P.A. 78-280 removed judges from purview of section and deleted distinctions re procedure depending on whether court is in or out of session, reflecting fact that court now sits continuously.Commitment under statute may clearly not be for more than 60 days, and respondent may apply for discharge upon purging himself of contempt or for other sufficient cause. 111 C. 252.
CT Gen Stat § 52-469 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 915 - Habeas Corpus|Section 52-469 - Averments of return may be denied or other facts alleged.

 Section 52-469 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8205; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 69.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-472 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 916 - Injunctions|Section 52-472 - Bond on issue of temporary injunction.

 No temporary injunction may be granted, except in favor of the state or of a public officer thereof in respect to any matter of a public nature, until the party making application therefor gives bond, with surety satisfactory to the court or judge granting the injunction, to the opposite party, to answer all damages in case the plaintiff fails to prosecute the action in which the injunction is applied for to effect; provided a bond need not be required when, for good cause shown, the court or a judge is of the opinion that a temporary injunction ought to issue without bond.(1949 Rev., S. 8208; P.A. 82-160, S. 173.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.Penalty rests in discretion of judge. 38 C. 123. Ex parte injunctions without bond disapproved. 77 C. 402. Only actual damages recoverable; 83 C. 418; 82 C. 153; not both damages and penalty. 79 C. 670. When bond is satisfied, or may be cancelled. 81 C. 715. Meaning of “prosecute the action to effect”. Id., 719. Court concluded that board of arbitration had not exceeded its authority under Sec. 7-472 and had made its services available to proper parties. 171 C. 420. Cited. 186 C. 725; 189 C. 539; 191 C. 201.Cited. 29 CA 105.It is not customary for the court to require bond on injunctions in aid of attachment of corporate stock. 6 CS 37. Cited. 11 CS 411; 12 CS 174. Requires surety bond, satisfactory to court, be posted to indemnify party seeking injunction for any breach by enjoined party. 29 CS 66. Cited. 42 CS 460.Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 105.
CT Gen Stat § 52-473 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 916 - Injunctions|Section 52-473 - Injunctions may be granted immediately or after notice.

 (a) An injunction may be granted immediately, if the circumstances of the case demand it, or the court or judge may cause immediate notice of the application to be given to the adverse party, that he may show cause why the injunction should not be granted.(b) No temporary injunction may be granted without notice to the adverse party unless it clearly appears from the specific facts shown by affidavit or by verified complaint that irreparable loss or damage will result to the plaintiff before the matter can be heard on notice. It shall be sufficient, on such application for a temporary injunction, to present to the court or judge the original complaint containing the demand for an injunction, duly verified, without further complaint, application or motion in writing.(1949 Rev., S. 8209; P.A. 82-160, S. 174.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.See Sec. 52-481 re temporary injunction to abate nuisance created by a manufacturer.Ex parte injunction without bond disapproved. 77 C. 402. Discretion of court in granting ex parte injunction; review. 80 C. 430. Cited. 153 C. 661. In divorce or separation action, husband cannot be punished for civil contempt unless final judgment itself awards damages for such civil contempt. 157 C. 470. Tenants of a building where sewage disposal system was causing water pollution were not adverse parties requiring notice. 180 C. 568. Cited. 181 C. 492; 186 C. 725.Cited. 29 CA 105.Cited. 26 CS 290.Stipulation entered into between parties that breach of their agreement by defendant would result in issuance of injunction forthwith is sufficient grounds for ex parte issuance of injunction sought; no jury trial was required where defendant was charged with civil contempt. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 724. Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 105.