Action against U.S. corporations. 5 C. 105. Secretary de facto. 6 C. 528. Service at selectman’s house. 12 C. 92. A foreign corporation, a portion of whose stockholders reside in this state, held not liable to suit by writ of summons in our courts. 14 C. 301. Service when there are no officers and but one stockholder. 20 C. 447. Place where corporation, etc., exercises its powers. 40 C. 70. Appearance as waiving defects in service. 67 C. 366; 70 C. 329; 77 C. 382; 90 C. 293; 4 Cranch 421. Effect of acceptance of service by nonresident out of state. 89 C. 215. House in this state where one habitually spent 3 days a week held his usual place of abode. 92 C. 55. Service by registered mail not sufficient to make nonresident claimant of bank deposit a party to action by trustee in bankruptcy against bank to recover it. 97 C. 307. Requirements of jurisdiction by foreign attachment stated. 107 C. 554. Service pursuant to section sufficient to give jurisdiction in bastardy action. 118 C. 304. Cited. 121 C. 312; 127 C. 57. Service at door of S’s apartment is not service at “usual place of abode” of F; officer’s return may be contradicted and facts shown to be otherwise. 138 C. 343. Due to legislative history, words “aforesaid officers or agents” construed to permit service upon a resident director of a foreign corporation. 144 C. 212. Court does not have jurisdiction if service is improper; when persons upon whom service may be made are designated by statute, service upon any other person as a representative of the corporations is inadequate. 145 C. 24. In the case of a defendant domiciled in, but absent from, the state, abode service in the state is ordinarily sufficient to give the court in personam jurisdiction; section is applicable to divorce and legal separation actions. 150 C. 15. Cited. Id., 190; 181 C. 225. Without a finding that plaintiff had no notice in fact, the attack on statute permitting abode service failed. 185 C. 495. Cited. 192 Conn. 1; Id., 497; 196 Conn. 233; 206 C. 125; Id., 374; 212 Conn. 157; 214 C. 1; 219 C. 204; 226 C. 1; 227 C. 909; 232 Conn. 392. Cited. 1 CA 123; 4 CA 339; 6 CA 43; Id., 390; 10 CA 201; 13 CA 1; 21 CA 339; 25 CA 637; 31 Conn.App. 155; Id., 629; 34 CA 18; Id., 634; 44 CA 225. Cited. 4 Conn.Supp. 139; 9 CS 473; Id., 520. Must be read as though there was a comma between the word “agent” and the concluding phrase “or upon any director resident in this state” to denote that the qualifying phrase “resident in this state” refers only to directors. 12 CS 97. Service handed to a clerk at a desk in a hotel lobby held void. 14 CS 400. Writ to which was added names of two additional garnishees after service is abatable. 16 Conn.Supp. 143. Service at home of defendant while he was hospitalized held “at usual place of abode”. 17 CS 432. Attempted service on corporation by leaving copy of complaint with porter invalid where no showing that the officers could not be found. 18 CS 108. Service of process upon the secretary of a foreign corporation who is in this state does not give our courts jurisdiction over the corporation unless it has exposed itself to such jurisdiction by doing business in this state. Id., 387. Service of process at a residence owned by defendant and occupied by a tenant, and in which defendant had an office, was not at defendant’s usual place of abode and was a nullity. 22 CS 288. What constitutes “usual place of abode”. 24 Conn.Supp. 324. Writ placed halfway under door was service at “usual place of abode”. Id., 488. Personal service need not have been made in a legal separation action where a proper constructive attachment of the property involved was made at the outset of the action. 26 CS 284, 290. Cited. 27 CS 395. Service by leaving process at house which defendant had vacated 3 months previously and put up for sale, herself moving out of state, was not service at her “usual place of abode, in this state”. 28 CS 284. Defendant’s former residence, still his family’s residence and listed as his voting and licensure address was no longer his place of abode when he had for over 2 years worked and lived in England. Id., 359. Cited. 33 Conn.Supp. 554; Id., 562; 34 CS 501; 35 CS 297. Hotel room may be defendant’s usual place of abode, particularly where he receives actual notice of the action. 36 CS 335. Cited. 37 CS 790; 41 Conn.Supp. 367; 42 CS 187. Service on Connecticut travel agency to secure jurisdiction over foreign hotel corporation whose only contact with state was travel agency selling tickets for tour on which hotel was regular stop, held ineffective. 3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 403. Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 470. Personal service of writ conferred in personam jurisdiction over defendant although writ did not specify defendant’s address by street and number. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 235. Requirement of statute for “abode” service is to be strictly construed as it is a departure from common law requirement of manual delivery for in personam service; service of writ by leaving it in mail box in hallway outside defendant’s apartment is so haphazard and uncertain as to fail to meet statutory requirements. Id., 580. Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 54. Subsec. (a): In foreclosure action, service of process at residential address when defendant was incarcerated constituted service at place of abode because family of defendant continued to live at address and defendant returned there after release from prison. 288 C. 568. Abode service is not effective if it is left at address that is not the usual address of the party to be served. 78 CA 456. In light of facts that front door of defendants’ home was inaccessible, that marshal affixed the process to property’s main entryway, and that the property is a single-family residence and defendants actually received notice of the action, the service of process effected by the marshal was reasonably likely to achieve personal notice and constituted proper abode service pursuant to section. 98 CA 852. Unlike Sec. 52-64(a), this Subsec. only applies when a state employee is sued in his or her individual capacity; phrase “Except as otherwise provided” does not allow service of process on a state employee in his or her individual capacity by serving process on the Attorney General at the Office of the Attorney General because such process is not specifically enumerated in section. 163 CA 337; judgment affirmed, see 328 C. 248. Subsec. (b): Subdiv. (5): Although citation commanded the marshal to serve only one copy on clerk, not the two copies required by Subdiv., the marshal did leave two copies, and thus defect is formal and circumstantial and will not cause dismissal of the appeal. 50 Conn.Supp. 513. Subsec. (c): In action against foreign corporation, service of process may be made on vice president and court acquired personal jurisdiction over defendant corporation by service on vice president made in accordance with Subsec. 113 CA 845. Service on general manager constituted proper service in action against automobile dealer. 142 CA 14. Subsec. (d): Service on secretary does not fulfill requirements of statute. 40 CS 1.

See Sec. 4a-17 re service of process on mentally ill or mentally deficient persons. See Sec. 33-663 re service of process on registered agent for stock corporation. See Sec. 33-1053 re service of process on registered agent for nonstock corporation. See Sec. 52-335 re service of garnishee process on a corporation. See Sec. 54-240l re service of process on participant in address confidentiality program.