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CT Gen Stat § 52-400f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 906 - Postjudgment Procedures|Section 52-400f - Priority of claims for deposits for consumer goods and services.

 In the event of (1) the termination of the existence of an entity, (2) the insolvency of a person or entity, or (3) the inability of a person or entity to pay all creditors in full, every debt due to any individual from such person or entity for a deposit made in connection with the purchase, lease or rental of goods or the purchase of services for the personal, family or household use of such individual, where such goods were not received or such services were not provided, shall be first paid in full, to the amount allowed for certain consumer deposits pursuant to subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of 11 USC Section 507, as amended and adjusted from time to time pursuant to 11 USC Section 104, as amended from time to time, before the general liabilities, except taxes or wages, of such person or entity are paid. As used in this section, “deposit made in connection with the purchase, lease or rental of goods” includes, but is not limited to, deposits made by a consumer to a home heating oil or propane gas dealer pursuant to a prepaid home heating oil or propane gas contract or capped price per gallon home heating oil contract.(P.A. 93-314, S. 3; June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-2, S. 6.)History: June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-2 deleted $900 amount allowed for certain deposits, inserted 11 USC 507(a)(7) and 104 references and added definition of “deposit made in connection with the purchase, lease or rental of goods”, effective June 17, 2008.
CT Gen Stat § 52-401 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 907 - Actions for Accounting|Section 52-401 - Court to settle terms of accounting.

 In any judgment or decree for an accounting, the court shall determine the terms and principles upon which such accounting shall be had.(1949 Rev., S. 8145.)Court may find that building erected by husband on land owned by him and his wife is vested in them as cotenants. 82 C. 424. Concurrent jurisdiction of Superior Court and Probate Court in claim of cestui que trust for accounting. 102 C. 121; 104 C. 190. Refusal to order account is a final judgment from which an appeal lies. 102 C. 122. Lies to compel husband to account for wife's funds given him for investment. 104 C. 187.Cited. 5 CA 457. Role of auditor is as a trier of fact. 121 CA 96.
CT Gen Stat § 52-403 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 907 - Actions for Accounting|Section 52-403 - Accounting before a justice of the peace.

 Section 52-403 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 8147; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-404 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 907 - Actions for Accounting|Section 52-404 - Accounting between coexecutors and cotenants.

 (a) A residuary legatee, when all or any part of his legacy is withheld from him by an executor, may bring an action for an accounting against the executor for the recovery thereof. An executor, who is also residuary legatee, when all or any part of his legacy is withheld from him by his coexecutor, may bring an action for an accounting against his coexecutor for the recovery thereof.(b) When two or more persons hold property as joint tenants, tenants in common or coparceners, if one of them occupies, receives, uses or takes benefit of the property in greater proportion than the amount of his interest in the property, any other party and his executors or administrators may bring an action for an accounting or for use and occupation against such person and recover such sum or value as is in excess of his proportion.(1949 Rev., S. 8148; P.A. 82-160, S. 146.)History: P.A. 82-160 replaced “estate” with “property”, rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.Account does not lie between executors, merely as such; 5 C. 26; nor between cotenants, where there are more than two. 16 C. 341. Cited. 25 C. 148. Tenant making necessary repairs may recover of his cotenants their share of the expense. 50 C. 256. In determining the “due proportion” of each cotenant, all equities are to be considered. 82 C. 425. Cited. 110 C. 656. At common law, cotenant in possession was not accountable to cotenant for anything received from common estate. 118 C. 17. Cited. 222 C. 150.Cited. 5 CA 457; 14 CA 402.
CT Gen Stat § 52-405 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 907 - Actions for Accounting|Section 52-405 - Appeal in action demanding an accounting.

 When, in any action demanding an accounting, a judgment is rendered ordering such accounting, appeal may be had from such judgment to the Appellate Court, as if it were a final judgment. Such appeal shall have precedence in the Appellate Court.(1949 Rev., S. 8004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 45, 82.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29 deleted reference to supreme court and substituted appellate court in lieu thereof.Cited. 68 C. 61; 82 C. 425. If judge makes finding on judgment for accounting, need not make one as to same facts after account is taken. 87 C. 400. Appeal lies from interlocutory judgment refusing to order an accounting. 102 C. 122. Cited. 185 C. 320; 222 C. 331.Cited. 5 CA 457.
CT Gen Stat § 52-406 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 908 - Amicable Suits|Section 52-406 - Submission of agreed case.

 Parties to a question in difference which might be the subject of a civil action between them may, without action, agree upon a case containing the facts upon which the controversy depends and submit the case to any court in the judicial district in which either of them resides, in which an action might have been brought to determine the controversy. If it appears by affidavit of the parties, or their respective attorneys, that the controversy is real and the proceeding is submitted in good faith to determine the rights of the parties, the court shall, on payment of the court and clerk fees, as on trial, hear and determine the case and render judgment thereon. The judgment shall be entered as in other cases, but without including costs, and may be enforced in the same manner as if it had been rendered in an action.(1949 Rev., S. 8149; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 82-160, S. 147.)History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.See Sec. 52-254 re equal sharing of costs in amicable suit.Provisions of statute must be strictly followed. 68 C. 214. Questionable whether certain differences fall within operation of statute. Id., 332. Cited. 171 C. 463; 175 C. 586; 180 C. 474.Cited. 17 CS 235.
CT Gen Stat § 52-407 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 908 - Amicable Suits|Section 52-407 - Appeal.

 If either party to a submission pursuant to section 52-406 desires a review of any question of law arising thereon and decided by the court, he may appeal the decision in the manner provided in ordinary cases of final judgment in the court, and not otherwise.(1949 Rev., S. 8150; P.A. 82-160, S. 148.)History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.See Sec. 52-254 re equal sharing of costs in amicable suit.Cited. 171 C. 463.
CT Gen Stat § 52-407aa (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407aa - Definitions.

 As used in sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive:(1) “Arbitration organization” means an association, agency, board, commission or other entity that is neutral and initiates, sponsors or administers an arbitration proceeding or is involved in the appointment of an arbitrator.(2) “Arbitrator” means an individual appointed to render an award, alone or with others, in a controversy that is subject to an agreement to arbitrate.(3) “Court” means the Superior Court.(4) “Knowledge” means actual knowledge.(5) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity.(6) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form.(P.A. 18-94, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407bb (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407bb - Notice.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 52-407ii, 52-407oo, 52-407ss, 52-407tt and 52-407vv to 52-407xx, inclusive, a person gives notice to another person by taking action that is reasonably necessary to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not the other person acquires knowledge of the notice.(b) A person has notice if the person has knowledge of the notice or has received notice.(c) A person receives notice when the notice comes to the person's attention or the notice is delivered at the person's place of residence or place of business, or at another location held out by the person as a place of delivery of such communications.(P.A. 18-94, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407cc (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407cc - Applicability of chapter.

 Sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, govern an agreement to arbitrate made on or after October 1, 2018, except that any proceeding that is governed by chapter 48, 68, 113, 166 or 743b, or any other provision of the general statutes, related to an agreement to arbitrate that was made prior to, on or after October 1, 2018, shall be subject to part II of this chapter, unless:(1) (A) All the parties to the proceeding agree in a record to be governed by sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, and (B) the agreement under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision is permitted by a law of this state other than sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive; or(2) The proceeding is governed by sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, pursuant to a law of this state other than sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive.(P.A. 18-94, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407dd (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407dd - Effect of agreement to arbitrate; nonwaivable provisions.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a party to an agreement to arbitrate or to an arbitration proceeding may waive, or the parties may vary the effect of, the requirements of sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, to the extent permitted by law.(b) Before a controversy arises that is subject to an agreement to arbitrate, a party to the agreement may not:(1) Waive or agree to vary the effect of the requirements of subsection (a) of section 52-407ee, subsection (a) of section 52-407ff, section 52-407hh, subsection (a) or (b) of section 52-407qq and section 52-407zz or 52-407bbb;(2) Agree to unreasonably restrict the right under section 52-407ii to notice of the initiation of an arbitration proceeding;(3) Agree to unreasonably restrict the right under section 52-407ll to disclosure of any facts by a neutral arbitrator; or(4) Waive the right under section 52-407pp of a party to an agreement to arbitrate to be represented by a lawyer at any proceeding or hearing under sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, provided an employer and a labor organization may waive the right to representation by a lawyer in a labor arbitration.(c) A party to an agreement to arbitrate or arbitration proceeding may not waive, or the parties may not vary the effect of, the requirements of this section or section 52-407cc, 52-407gg, 52-407nn or 52-407rr, subsection (d) or (e) of section 52-407tt, or sections 52-407vv to 52-407yy, inclusive, and sections 52-407ccc to 52-407eee, inclusive, or section 37-3a.(P.A. 18-94, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407ee (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407ee - Application for judicial relief.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 52-407bbb, an application for judicial relief under sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, shall be made by motion to the court and heard in the manner provided by law or rule of court for making and hearing motions.(b) Unless a civil action involving the agreement to arbitrate is pending, notice of an initial motion to the court under sections 52-407aa to 52-407eee, inclusive, must be served in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons in a civil action. Otherwise, notice of the motion must be given in the manner provided by law or rule of court for serving motions in pending cases.(P.A. 18-94, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407ff (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407ff - Validity of agreement to arbitrate.

 (a) An agreement contained in a record to submit to arbitration any existing or subsequent controversy arising between the parties to the agreement is valid, enforceable and irrevocable, except upon a ground that exists at law or in equity for the revocation of a contract.(b) The court shall decide whether an agreement to arbitrate exists or a controversy is subject to an agreement to arbitrate.(c) An arbitrator shall decide whether a condition precedent to arbitrability has been fulfilled and whether a contract containing a valid agreement to arbitrate is enforceable.(d) If a party to a judicial proceeding challenges the existence of, or claims that a controversy is not subject to, an agreement to arbitrate, the arbitration proceeding may continue pending final resolution of the issue by the court, unless the court otherwise orders.(P.A. 18-94, S. 6.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407gg (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407gg - Motion to compel or stay arbitration.

 (a) On motion of a person showing an agreement to arbitrate and alleging another person's refusal to arbitrate pursuant to the agreement:(1) If the refusing party does not appear or does not oppose the motion, the court shall order the parties to arbitrate; and(2) If the refusing party opposes the motion, the court shall proceed summarily to decide the issue and order the parties to arbitrate unless it finds that there is no enforceable agreement to arbitrate.(b) On motion of a person alleging that an arbitration proceeding has been initiated or threatened but that there is no agreement to arbitrate, the court shall proceed summarily to decide the issue. If the court finds that there is an enforceable agreement to arbitrate, it shall order the parties to arbitrate.(c) If the court finds that there is no enforceable agreement, it may not order the parties to arbitrate under this section.(d) The court may not refuse to order arbitration because the claim subject to arbitration lacks merit or grounds for the claim have not been established.(e) If a proceeding involving a claim referable to arbitration under an alleged agreement to arbitrate is pending in court, a motion under this section must be made in that court. Otherwise, a motion under this section may be made in any court specified in section 52-407aaa.(f) If a party makes a motion to the court to order arbitration, the court on just terms shall stay any judicial proceeding that involves a claim alleged to be subject to the arbitration until the court renders a final decision under this section.(g) If the court orders arbitration, the court on just terms shall stay any judicial proceeding that involves a claim subject to the arbitration. If a claim subject to the arbitration is severable, the court may limit the stay to that claim.(P.A. 18-94, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407hh (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407hh - Provisional remedies.

 (a) Before an arbitrator is appointed and is authorized and able to act, the court, upon motion of a party to an arbitration proceeding and for good cause shown, may enter an order for provisional remedies to protect the effectiveness of the arbitration proceeding to the same extent and under the same conditions as if the controversy were the subject of a civil action.(b) After an arbitrator is appointed and is authorized and able to act:(1) The arbitrator may issue such orders for provisional remedies, including interim awards, as the arbitrator finds necessary to protect the effectiveness of the arbitration proceeding and to promote the fair and expeditious resolution of the controversy, to the same extent and under the same conditions as if the controversy were the subject of a civil action; and(2) A party to an arbitration proceeding may move the court for a provisional remedy only if the matter is urgent and the arbitrator is not able to act timely or the arbitrator cannot provide an adequate remedy.(c) A party does not waive a right of arbitration by making a motion under subsection (a) or (b) of this section.(P.A. 18-94, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407ii (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407ii - Initiation of arbitration proceeding. Notice.

 (a) A person initiates an arbitration proceeding by giving notice in a record to the other parties to the agreement to arbitrate in the agreed manner between the parties, or in the absence of agreement, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and obtained, or by service as authorized for the commencement of a civil action. The notice must describe the nature of the controversy and the remedy sought.(b) Unless a person objects for lack or insufficiency of notice under subsection (c) of section 52-407oo not later than the beginning of the arbitration hearing, the person by appearing at the hearing waives any objection to lack or insufficiency of notice.(P.A. 18-94, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407jj (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407jj - Consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, upon motion of a party to an agreement to arbitrate or to an arbitration proceeding, the court may order consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings as to all or some of the claims if:(1) There are separate agreements to arbitrate or separate arbitration proceedings between the same persons or one of them is a party to a separate agreement to arbitrate or a separate arbitration proceeding with a third person;(2) The claims subject to the agreements to arbitrate arise in substantial part from the same transaction or series of related transactions;(3) The existence of a common issue of law or fact creates the possibility of conflicting decisions in the separate arbitration proceedings; and(4) Prejudice resulting from a failure to consolidate is not outweighed by the risk of undue delay or prejudice to the rights of or hardship to parties opposing consolidation.(b) The court may order consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings as to some claims and allow other claims to be resolved in separate arbitration proceedings.(c) The court may not order consolidation of the claims of a party to an agreement to arbitrate if the agreement prohibits consolidation.(P.A. 18-94, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407kk (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407kk - Appointment of arbitrator; service as neutral arbitrator.

 (a) If the parties to an agreement to arbitrate agree on a method for appointing an arbitrator, that method must be followed, unless the method fails. If the parties have not agreed on a method, the agreed method fails or an appointed arbitrator fails or is unable to act and a successor has not been appointed, the court, on motion of a party to the arbitration proceeding, shall appoint the arbitrator. An arbitrator so appointed has all the powers of an arbitrator designated in the agreement to arbitrate or appointed pursuant to the agreed method.(b) An individual who has a known, direct and material interest in the outcome of the arbitration proceeding or a known, existing and substantial relationship with a party may not serve as an arbitrator required by an agreement to be neutral.(P.A. 18-94, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407ll (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407ll - Disclosure by arbitrator.

 (a) Before accepting appointment, an individual who is requested to serve as an arbitrator, after making a reasonable inquiry, shall disclose to all parties to the agreement to arbitrate and arbitration proceeding and to any other arbitrators any known facts that a reasonable person would consider likely to affect the impartiality of the arbitrator in the arbitration proceeding, including:(1) A financial or personal interest in the outcome of the arbitration proceeding; and(2) An existing or past relationship with any of the parties to the agreement to arbitrate or the arbitration proceeding, their counsel or representatives, a witness or another arbitrator.(b) An arbitrator has a continuing obligation to disclose to all parties to the agreement to arbitrate and arbitration proceeding and to any other arbitrators any facts that the arbitrator learns after accepting appointment which a reasonable person would consider likely to affect the impartiality of the arbitrator.(c) If an arbitrator discloses a fact required by subsection (a) or (b) of this section to be disclosed and a party timely objects to the appointment or continued service of the arbitrator based upon the fact disclosed, the objection may be a ground under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 52-407ww for vacating an award made by the arbitrator.(d) If the arbitrator did not disclose a fact as required by subsection (a) or (b) of this section, upon timely objection by a party, the court, under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 52-407ww, may vacate an award.(e) An arbitrator appointed as a neutral arbitrator who does not disclose a known, direct and material interest in the outcome of the arbitration proceeding or a known, existing and substantial relationship with a party is presumed to act with evident partiality under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 52-407ww.(f) If the parties to an arbitration proceeding agree to the procedures of an arbitration organization or any other procedures for challenges to arbitrators before an award is made, substantial compliance with those procedures is a condition precedent to a motion to vacate an award on that ground under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 52-407ww.(P.A. 18-94, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 52-407mm (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 52 - Civil Actions|Chapter 909 - Arbitration Proceedings|Section 52-407mm - Action by majority.

 If there is more than one arbitrator, the powers of an arbitrator must be exercised by a majority of the arbitrators, but all of them shall conduct the hearing under subsection (c) of section 52-407oo.(P.A. 18-94, S. 13.)