Conn. Gen. Stat. » Title 47 — LAND AND LAND TITLES · Chapter 821 — Land Titles
Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-32 (2025)

Several defendants may be joined

✓ laws through the 2024 session: the source has not yet published 2025 Public Acts (checked Sept. 2026)
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section CT-CGAcga.ct.gov (official) JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar
In any action to quiet title to real estate or to have declared invalid and to discharge any encumbrance on real estate, the plaintiff may join several defendants and all causes of action relating to defects in the title to any property described in the complaint, claims against the property or affecting the title to it and encumbrances on the property. In such case, the defendant shall not be required to answer or plead to any allegation of the complaint or other pleadings of the plaintiff except such as affect or pertain to the claims or defenses which he desires to interpose. When any such action is brought to the Superior Court, the court shall have jurisdiction over all of the causes of action so joined.

(1949 Rev., S. 7121; P.A. 76-436, S. 647, 681; P.A. 79-602, S. 51.)

History: P.A. 76-436 deleted references to actions brought in court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 79-602 made minor changes in wording.

Cited. 110 C. 214; 147 C. 689.

Circuit court lacks jurisdiction of actions to quiet title. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 15, 16, 21.

(Return to Chapter
Table of Contents)		 (Return to
List of Chapters)		 (Return to
List of Titles)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1960–2012 · leading case: 98 Lords High., LLC v. One Hundred Lords High., LLC, 54 A.3d 232 (Conn. App. Ct. 2012).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
98 Lords High., LLC v. One Hundred Lords High., LLC, 54 A.3d 232 (Conn. App. Ct. 2012). · cites it 2× “General Statutes § 47-32, which pertains to parties joined as defendants, provides in relevant part that “the plaintiff may join several defendants and all causes of action relating to defects in the title to any property described in the complaint, claims against the property…”
Loewenberg v. Wallace, 166 A.2d 150 (Conn. 1960). “397, except for the added claims for damages and appropriate equitable relief, incidental to the basic claim involved in the statutory action, an action which is equitable in its essence. Foote v. Brown, 78 Conn. 369, 377 , 62 A.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.