{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-52-525","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-525","heading":"Statement of title.","body":"(a) An allegation by either party that the party pleading or a third person was, at the time when the action of replevin was commenced, or at the time the goods were replevied, the owner of the goods, or that they were then his property, is a sufficient statement of title unless the right of action or defense rests upon a right of possession by virtue of a special property interest.\n(b) If the right of action or defense rests upon a right of possession by virtue of a special property interest, the pleading shall set forth the facts upon which the special property interest depends so as to show that, at the time when the action was commenced or the goods were replevied, as the case may be, the party pleading or the third person was entitled to the possession of the goods.\n(c) The defendant may, by answer, defend on the ground that a third person was entitled to the possession of the goods without connecting himself with the latter's title.","path":["TITLE 52. CIVIL ACTIONS","CHAPTER 921*. REPLEVIN"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_921.htm#sec_52-525","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:18Z","sha256":"86f6f4ba16950e77cfd690631bb07fbb6b9396f3d7ee2629b1b7822b1581be89","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-52-524","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-52-526"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}