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Conn. Practice Book § 4-1
Form of Pleading
(a) All documents filed in paper format shall be
typed or printed on size 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper,
shall have no back or cover sheet, and shall
include a page number on each page other than
the first page. Those subsequent to the complaint
shall be headed with the title and number of the
case, the name of the court, and the date and
designation of the particular pleading, in conformity with the applicable form in the rules of practice which is set forth in the Appendix of Forms
in this volume.
(b) At the bottom of the first page of each paper,
a blank space of approximately two inches shall
be reserved for notations of receipt or time of
filing by the clerk and for statements by counsel
pursuant to Section 11-18 (a) (2). Papers shall be
punched with two holes, two and twelve-sixteenths inches apart, each centered seven-sixteenths of an inch from the upper edge, one
being two and fourteen-sixteenths inches from the
left-hand edge and the other being the same distance from the right-hand edge, and each four-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.
(c) All documents filed electronically shall be
in substantially the same format as required by
subsection (a) of this section.
(d) The clerk may require a party to correct any
filed paper which is not in compliance with this
section by substituting a paper in proper form.
(e) This section shall not apply to forms supplied
by the Judicial Branch or generated by the elec -
tronic filing system.
History
(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 118.) (Amended Aug. 24, 2001, to take effect Jan. 1, 2002; amended June 20, 2011, to take effect Jan. 1, 2012; amended June 13, 2014, to take effect Jan. 1, 2015.)
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