Sec. 52-207. Defense based on Sunday contract.
Sec. 52-207. Defense based on Sunday contract. No person who has received a
valuable consideration for a contract, express or implied, made on a Sunday prior to
June 9, 1976, may defend any action upon the contract on the ground that it was made
on a Sunday, until he has restored the consideration.
(1949 Rev., S. 7980; P.A. 76-415, S. 6; 76-435, S. 81, 82; P.A. 82-160, S. 99.)
History: P.A. 76-415 specified applicability to contracts made on Sunday "prior to October 1, 1976"; P.A. 76-435
changed effective date from October 1, 1976, to June 9, 1976, amending section text accordingly; P.A. 82-160 rephrased
the section.
See Sec. 53-300a re validity of Sunday real estate contracts.
Cited. 66 C. 275. Defendant must pay the reasonable value or agreed price, where a return of the identical consideration
is practically impossible. 73 C. 624. Court should instruct jury as to whether certain date is Sunday. 81 C. 490. That contract
was made on Sunday should be pleaded. 85 C. 635. See notes to sections 53-300, 53-301. In action by assignee to enforce
bond for deed, defendant who received nothing as result of assignment may defend on ground it was made on Sunday.
133 C. 649. Cited. 155 C. 55. Cited. 177 C. 304.
Cited. 14 CS 407. Sunday contract not demurrable if there is nothing to indicate that deposit allegedly accepted by
defendant has been returned. 20 CS 443.