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Conn. Practice Book § 10-21
Joinder of Causes of Action
In any civil action the plaintiff may include in
the complaint both legal and equitable rights
and causes of action, and demand both legal
and equitable remedies; but, if several causes of
action are united in the same complaint, they shall
all be brought to recover, either (1) upon contract,
express or implied, or (2) for injuries, with or without force, to person and property, or either, including a conversion of property to the defendant’s
use, or (3) for injuries to character, or (4) upon
claims to recover real property, with or without
damages for the withholding thereof, and the rents
and profits of the same, or (5) upon claims to
recover personal property specifically, with or
without damages for the withholding thereof, or
(6) claims arising by virtue of a contract or by
operation of law in favor of or against a party in
some representative or fiduciary capacity, or (7)
upon claims, whether in contract or tort or both,
arising out of the same transaction or transactions
connected with the same subject of action. The
several causes of action so united shall all belong
to one of these classes, and, except in an action
for the foreclosure of a mortgage or lien, shall
affect all the parties to the action, and not require
different places of trial, and shall be separately
stated; and, in any case in which several causes
of action are joined in the same complaint, or as
matter of counterclaim or setoff in the answer, if
it appears to the judicial authority that they cannot
all be conveniently heard together, it may order
a separate trial of any such cause of action or
may direct that any one or more of them be
deleted from the complaint or answer. (See General Statutes § 52-97 and annotations.)
History
(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 133.)
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