Conn. Practice Book § 13-1 (2026)

Sec. 13-1. Definitions (a) For purposes of this chapter: (1) ‘‘statement’’ means (A) a written statement in the handwriting of the person making it, or signed, or initialed, or otherwise in writing adopted or approved by the person making it; or (B) a stenographic, mechani- cal, electrical or other recording or a transcription thereof, which is a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement by the person making it and which is contemporaneously recorded; (2) ‘‘party’’ means (A) a person named as a party in the action, or (B) an agent, employee, officer, or direc- tor of a public or private corporation, partnership, association, or governmental agency, named as a party in the action; (3) ‘‘representative’’ includes agent, attorney, consultant, indemnitor, insurer, and surety; (4) ‘‘electronic’’ means relating to tech- nology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wire- less, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabili- ties; (5) ‘‘electronically stored information’’ means information that is stored in an electronic medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (b) The full text of the definitions and rules of construction set forth in subsections (c) and (d) herein is deemed incorporated by reference into all discovery requests served pursuant to this 222 13-16. Orders by Judge 13-17. Disclosure before Court or Committee 13-18. Disclosures in Equity 13-19. Disclosure of Defense 13-20. Discovery Sought by Judgment Creditor 13-21. Discovery outside of the United States of America 13-22. Admission of Facts and Execution of Writings; Requests for Admission 13-23. —Answers and Objections to Requests for Admission 13-24. —Effect of Admission 13-25. —Expenses on Failure To Admit 13-26. Depositions; In General 13-27. —Notice of Deposition; General Requirements; Special Notice; Nonstenographic Recording; Production of Documents and Things; Deposition of Organization 13-28. —Persons before Whom Deposition May Be Taken for Use in Proceedings in this State 13-28A. —Deposition Subpoenas 13-29. —Place of Deposition 13-30. —Deposition Procedure 13-31. —Use of Depositions in Court Proceedings 13-32. Agreements regarding Discovery and Deposition Procedure 13-33. Claim of Privilege or Protection after Production chapter and shall preclude any broader definition of a term defined in subsection (c), but shall not preclude: (1) the definition of other terms specific to the particular litigation; (2) the use of abbrevia- tions; or (3) a more narrow definition of a term defined in subsection (c). (c) The following definitions apply to all discov- ery requests: (1) Communication. The term ‘‘communication’’ means the transmittal of information (in the form of facts, ideas, inquiries or otherwise). (2) Document. The term ‘‘document’’ means any writing, drawing, graph, chart, photograph, sound recording, image, and other data or data compilation, stored in any medium from which information can be obtained either directly or, if necessary, after translation by the responding party into a reasonably usable form. A draft or nonidentical copy is a separate document within the meaning of this term. A request for produc- tion of ‘‘documents’’ shall encompass, and the response shall include, electronically stored infor- mation, as defined in subsection (a) above, unless otherwise specified by the requesting party. (3) Identify (with respect to persons). When referring to a person, to ‘‘identify’’ means to pro- vide, to the extent known, the person’s full name,

© Copyrighted by the Secretary of the State of the State of Connecticut SUPERIOR COURT—PROCEDURE IN CIVIL MATTERS Sec. 13-3 present or last known address, and when referring to a natural person, additionally, the present or last known place of employment. Once a person has been identified in accordance with this subdi- vision, only the name of that person need be listed in response to subsequent discovery requesting the identification of that person. (4) Identify (with respect to documents or elec- tronically stored information). When referring to documents or electronically stored information, to ‘‘identify’’ means: to provide, to the extent known, information about the (A) type of document or electronically stored information; (B) its general subject matter; (C) the date of the document or electronically stored information; and (D) author(s), addressee(s) and recipient(s). (5) Identify (with respect to oral communica- tions). When referring to an oral communica- tion, to ‘‘identify’’ means: (A) to state the date and place of the oral communication; (B) to identify all persons hearing, present or participating in the communication; (C) to state whether the commu- nication was in person, by telephone, or by some other means or medium; (D) to summarize what was said by each such person, or provide a tran- script if one is available. (6) Identify (with respect to an act or event). When referring to an act or event, to ‘‘identify’’ means: (A) to describe the act or event, including its location and its date; (B) to identify the persons participating, present or involved in the act or event; (C) to identify all oral communications which were made at the act or event identified; and (D) to identify all documents concerning the act or event identified. (7) Person. The term ‘‘person’’ is defined as any natural person or any business, legal or gov- ernmental entity or association. (8) Concerning. The term ‘‘concerning’’ means relating to, referring to, describing, evidencing or constituting. (9) You. The term ‘‘you’’ means the party or person to whom a discovery request is directed, except that: (A) if the party is the representative of the estate of a decedent, ward, or incapable person, ‘‘you’’ shall also refer to the party’s dece- dent, ward or incapable person, unless the context of the discovery request clearly indicates other- wise; and (B) notwithstanding subsection (b) above, the propounding party may specify a differ- ent definition of the term ‘‘you.’’ (d) The following rules of construction apply to all discovery requests: (1) All/Each. The terms ‘‘all’’ and ‘‘each’’ shall both be construed as all and each. (2) And/Or. The connectives ‘‘and’’ and ‘‘or’’ shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunc- tively as necessary to bring within the scope of the discovery request all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope. 223 (3) Number. The use of the singular form of any word includes the plural and vice versa. (4) Gender. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the use of any pronoun or gender-iden- tified form of any word includes both the male and female genders. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 216.) (Amended June 20, 2011, to take effect Jan. 1, 2012; amended June 14, 2013, to take effect Jan. 1, 2014.)