No writ, pleading, judgment or any kind of proceeding in court or course of justice shall be abated, suspended, set aside or reversed for any kind of circumstantial errors, mistakes or defects, if the person and the cause may be rightly understood and intended by the court.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-123
Circumstantial defects not to abate pleadings
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Contant v. Bethany Planning Zoning Commission, No. 389667 (Oct. 21, 1996) (1996)
Most recently applied in D'Ambra v. Maikshilo (December 2011)
(1949 Rev., S. 7845.)
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