Conn. Practice Book § 10-51 (2026)

Sec. 10-51. —Several Special Defenses Where several matters of defense are pleaded, each must refer to the cause of action which it is intended to answer, and be separately stated and designated as a separate defense, as, First Defense, Second Defense, etc. Where the com- plaint or counterclaim is for more than one cause of action, set forth in several counts, each sepa- rate matter of defense should be preceded by a designation of the cause of action which it is designed to meet, in this manner: First Defense to First Count, Second Defense to First Count, First Defense to Second Count, and so on. Any statement of a matter of defense resting in part upon facts pleaded in any preceding statement in the same answer may refer to those facts as thus recited, without otherwise repeating them. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 165.)