Sec. 52-495. Partition of joint and common estates.
Sec. 52-495. Partition of joint and common estates. Courts having jurisdiction
of actions for equitable relief may, upon the complaint of any person interested, order
partition of any real property held in joint tenancy, tenancy in common, coparcenary or
by tenants in tail. The court may appoint a committee to partition any such property.
Any decrees partitioning entailed estates shall bind the parties and all persons who
thereafter claim title to the property as heirs of their bodies.
(1949 Rev., S. 8231; P.A. 82-160, S. 185.)
History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section.
See Sec. 45a-326 re partition or sale of undivided interest in decedent's estate.
Partition or sale of lands held in common is a matter of right. 14 C. 360; 43 C. 560; 49 C. 517; 60 C. 379. Application
for partition of lands of deceased person, premature when. 43 C. 560. The petitioner must be in possession. 24 C. 233; 78
C. 421. To lose right to partition a cotenant must have been ousted of possession. 133 C. 428. Rule of division follows
legal interest of parties, when. 40 C. 280. Jurisdiction to be determined by value of property sought to be aparted or sold.
50 C. 258. Fundamental rule in partition of land stated. 56 C. 545. Object of statute stated. 60 C. 379. Nature of rights of
adjoining proprietors in a tree on the dividing line. 65 C. 379; 108 C. 98. Court may order sale under section 52-500 if it
believes a sale is better for parties than a partition, even though some of joint owners demand a partition. 98 C. 395. Effect
of partition upon passway appurtenant to original tract. 100 C. 633. Partition will not be granted where to do so would
involve violation or defeat of a trust. 110 C. 526. Division may be based on equitable interests; 134 C. 179; but no
unconscionable enrichment of husband where wife built house on land owned in common. Id., 180. The two modes of
relief within the power of the court are partition by division of real estate and partition by sale. 143 C. 218. Cited. 175 C.
463. Cited. 181 C.. Cited. 195 C. 368. Cited. 208 C. 318. Cited. 224 C. 219. In a partition action, one joint tenant or tenant
in common cannot dispossess another except by partition in kind or partition by sale pursuant to section and Sec. 52-500,
and trial court did not have authority to order defendant to execute a quitclaim deed to plaintiff in exchange for the payment
of money. 255 C. 47. Partition by physical division and trial court proceedings in partition action discussed. Id.
Cited. 2 CA 456; Id., 543. Cited. 5 CA 142. Cited. 7 CA 522. Cited. 10 CA 198. Cited. 17 CA 4. Cited. 20 CA 492.
Cited. 23 CA 460. Section confers authority on Superior Court to order partition and sale upon the complaint of any person
interested. 50 CA 132. Trial court may order plaintiff to execute a quitclaim deed to defendant and defendant to pay money
damages to plaintiff. 54 CA 444.
Cited. 4 CS 68. Partition of property is matter of right, but partition by sale is matter of discretion. 9 CS 136. A cotenant,
no matter what portion of the realty he owns, is entitled to a partition. 13 CS 131. Cited. 14 CS 169. Object of section is
to afford each owner of property in joint tenancy a remedy to end such joint ownership. 17 CS 211. Defense of agreement
by joint tenants debarring partition not frivolous. 25 CS 119. Cited. 28 CS 187. Defendant wife properly interposed defense
to husband plaintiff's action for partition of jointly owned home that she and their children were in possession by agreement
pending entry of final judgment in pending divorce action brought by her. Id., 230. Action for divorce and action for
partition are equitable actions. Id. Partition requires prior proof of operative unity of possession by plaintiff and defendant.
Id., 381. Cited. 29 CS 465.
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 654.