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Section 52-278j – Dismissal or withdrawal of prejudgment remedy

May 11, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Connecticut

(a) If an application for a prejudgment remedy is granted but the plaintiff, within thirty days thereof, does not serve and return to court the writ, summons and complaint for which the prejudgment remedy was allowed, the court shall dismiss the prejudgment remedy.
(b) If an application for a prejudgment remedy is denied and the plaintiff, within thirty days thereof, does not serve and return to court the writ of summons and complaint for which the prejudgment remedy was requested, or if a date for a hearing upon a prejudgment remedy is scheduled by the clerk and such hearing is not commenced within thirty days thereof, except as provided in section 52-278e, the court shall order the application to be considered as having been withdrawn.
(c) An application for a prejudgment remedy or a prejudgment remedy which is granted but not served may be withdrawn in the same manner as a civil cause of action.

Conn. Gen. Stat. ยง 52-278j

(P.A. 76-21, S. 1-3; P.A. 78-36; P.A. 91-315, S. 3, 5.)

Cited. 186 C. 295; 188 Conn. 69. Cited. 34 Conn.App. 303. Nothing in section implicates jurisdiction of the court to continue to hear a civil matter in which plaintiff has been granted a prejudgment remedy but failed to comply with Subsec. (a); rather the mandate in Subsec. (a) is best viewed as a sanction to prevent plaintiff from unduly encumbering assets of defendant by delaying initiation of the civil action in which the parties’ dispute can be fully and fairly litigated. 156 CA 17. When plaintiff failed to serve defendant and return plaintiff’s civil action to court within thirty days after the denial of his application for a prejudgment remedy, the only action required of the court was to consider the application, not the civil action, withdrawn. 163 CA 663. Cited. 38 Conn.Supp. 98.