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Connecticut · Through Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-224: Special verdicts. Jury to assess damages.

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  1. TITLE 52. CIVIL ACTIONS
  2. CHAPTER 900*. COURT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

(a) The court shall determine questions of law referred to it by the jury in a special verdict, which they may give when they entertain doubts respecting points of law arising in the action, or when the parties request it. In a special verdict the jury shall find the facts, and state the questions of law thus:

If the law be so in such a point, then we find for the plaintiff;

but if the law be otherwise, then we find for the defendant.

(b) When the jury finds a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, they shall assess the damages which he shall be entitled to recover.

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