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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-207 (2025)

Supplemental general principles of law applicable

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The principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations and unincorporated associations, the law of real property, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, receivership, substantial performance, or other validating or invalidating cause supplement the provisions of this chapter, except to the extent inconsistent with this chapter.

(P.A. 83-474, S. 8, 96.)

Cited. 237 C. 123.

Cited. 22 CA 497; 38 CA 420; 39 CA 736. Although section provides that supplemental general principles of law are applicable in interpreting provisions of Common Interest Ownership Act, these principles do not include common law doctrine of constructive eviction. 136 CA 698.

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Cited in 6 cases, 1990–2012 · leading case: Fruin v. Colonnade One At Old Greenwich Ltd. P'ship, 676 A.2d 369 (Conn. 1996).
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Fruin v. Colonnade One At Old Greenwich Ltd. P'ship, 676 A.2d 369 (Conn. 1996). · cites it 4× “” General Statutes § 47-207. 13 The plain and unambiguous terms of the remedial provisions, therefore, qualify and limit the extent to which supplemental principles will afford relief that CIOA does not provide specifically.”
Fruin v. Colonnade One at Old Greenwich Ltd. P'ship, 662 A.2d 129 (Conn. App. Ct. 1995). · cites it 4× “General Statutes § 47-207. 7 There is, however, a paucity of reported case law in Connecticut on causes of action commenced and remedies awarded under CIOA, and the issue raised by the plaintiff is one of first appellate impression in Connect *430 icut.”
Grey v. Coastal States Holding Co., 578 A.2d 1080 (Conn. App. Ct. 1990). · cites it 2× “General Statutes § 47-207. General Statutes § 47-278 provides that if a provision of the declaration is violated, “any person .”
Dime Sav. Bank of New York, FSB v. Muranelli, 667 A.2d 803 (Conn. App. Ct. 1995). · cites it 4× “The trial court found no statutory prohibition to such an order and relied on its equitable powers as authority to order the payments.”
Coach Run Condo., Inc. v. Furniss, 47 A.3d 413 (Conn. App. Ct. 2012). · cites it 4× “Although General Statutes § 47-207 8 provides that supplemental general principles of law are applicable in interpreting the provisions of the act, we are not persuaded that these supplemental principles include the common law doctrine of constructive eviction.”
Peck v. Milford Hunt Homeowners Ass'n, 953 A.2d 951 (Conn. App. Ct. 2008). · cites it 2× “” General Statutes § 47-207 provides: “The principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations and unincorporated associations, the law of real property, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud,…”
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