Title 10 - Courts and civil procedure–Procedure in particular actions
- CHAPTER 10-1 - Abatement of Nuisances
- § 10-1-1 - Action to abate nuisance – Contents.
- § 10-1-10 - Proceedings and punishment for contempt.
- § 10-1-2 - Filing of action – Application for temporary injunction.
- § 10-1-3 - Temporary injunction – Enforcement.
- § 10-1-4 - Application of rules of equity.
- § 10-1-5 - Evidence of reputation – Conviction of offenses against decency.
- § 10-1-6 - Substitution of attorney general for original plaintiff – Costs against plaintiff.
- § 10-1-7 - Decree and order of abatement – Sale of property.
- § 10-1-8 - Dissolution of order to keep closed.
- § 10-1-9 - Proceedings after conviction in criminal proceedings.
- CHAPTER 10-10 - Imprisonment on Civil Process
- § 10-10-1 - Grounds for writ commanding arrest.
- § 10-10-10 - Validity of assignments made by prisoner.
- § 10-10-11 - Bonds and obligations not provided for void.
- § 10-10-12 - Payment of prisoner's board.
- § 10-10-13 - Discharge of prisoner on default in board payments.
- § 10-10-14 - Board payments as costs.
- § 10-10-2 - Form of writ from superior court.
- § 10-10-3 - Form of writ from district court.
- § 10-10-4 - Exemption of females from arrest on contract.
- § 10-10-5 - Exemption of voters at time of elections.
- § 10-10-6 - Exemption of persons on military duty.
- § 10-10-7 - Custody of person arrested.
- § 10-10-8 - Notation of cause of action on execution and commitment.
- § 10-10-9 - Privileges allowed person committed in absence of memorandum.
- CHAPTER 10-11 - Bail of Persons Imprisoned on Civil Process
- § 10-11-1 - Bail taken by arresting officer.
- § 10-11-10 - Commitment of principal after judgment.
- § 10-11-11 - Discharge of principal on failure to take execution.
- § 10-11-12 - Death of principal discharging bail.
- § 10-11-13 - Judgment against bail.
- § 10-11-14 - Action against bail in superior court based on district court judgment.
- § 10-11-15 - Period after judgment allowed for action against bail.
- § 10-11-16 - Bail's remedy against principal.
- § 10-11-2 - Giving of bail bond.
- § 10-11-3 - Bail by indorsement of process.
- § 10-11-4 - Bail at any time before judgment – Counties other than Providence.
- § 10-11-5 - Bail in Providence county at any time before judgment.
- § 10-11-6 - Bond or indorsement in Providence county.
- § 10-11-7 - Discharge of bail by surrender of principal pending action.
- § 10-11-8 - Discharge of bail before judgment.
- § 10-11-9 - Commitment of principal surrendered before judgment.
- CHAPTER 10-12 - Liberty of Jail Yard
- § 10-12-1 - Power of sheriff or warden to grant liberty.
- § 10-12-10 - Limitation of actions on jail yard bond.
- § 10-12-2 - Bond to secure liberty.
- § 10-12-3 - Limits of jail yard.
- § 10-12-4 - Entry into places within yard.
- § 10-12-5 - Assignment of property by person committed on execution.
- § 10-12-6 - Warden's responsibility on assignment.
- § 10-12-7 - Failure to report or assign to warden deemed an escape.
- § 10-12-8 - Surrender of principal by surety on jail yard bond.
- § 10-12-9 - Judgment on jail yard bond.
- CHAPTER 10-13 - Relief of Poor Debtors
- § 10-13-1 - Application to take poor debtor's oath.
- § 10-13-10 - Discharge of prisoner.
- § 10-13-11 - Detainment for fees prohibited.
- § 10-13-12 - Responsibility of warden for property – Assignment to or on direction of creditor.
- § 10-13-13 - Second citation to creditor by debtor not admitted to oath.
- § 10-13-14 - Administration of debtor's oath pending original action.
- § 10-13-15 - Citation to show cause against oath by defendant.
- § 10-13-16 - Service of citation.
- § 10-13-17 - Examination of defendant and administration of oath.
- § 10-13-18 - Effect of execution after debtor's oath.
- § 10-13-19 - Application for oath after judgment and before commitment.
- § 10-13-2 - Persons not entitled to take oath.
- § 10-13-20 - Service of citation.
- § 10-13-21 - Administration of oath.
- § 10-13-22 - Effect of execution after oath.
- § 10-13-23 - Certificate as to oath – Certificate of discharge.
- § 10-13-24 - Assignment for benefit of creditors upon administration of oath.
- § 10-13-25 - Party deemed creditor – Effect of executions subsequent to oath.
- § 10-13-26 - Adjournment of hearings.
- § 10-13-27 - Petition for discharge by prisoner unable to pay tort judgment.
- § 10-13-28 - Examination of tort debtor – Assignment of property – Administration of oath.
- § 10-13-29 - Costs paid by debtor.
- § 10-13-3 - Citation to creditor to show cause against debtor's oath.
- § 10-13-4 - Service of citation on creditor.
- § 10-13-5 - Citations to state as creditor.
- § 10-13-6 - Service of citation on attorney general.
- § 10-13-7 - Administration of oath – Assignment of estate.
- § 10-13-8 - Form of debtor's oath.
- § 10-13-9 - Certificate of justice as to oath.
- CHAPTER 10-14 - Quo Warranto
- CHAPTER 10-15 - Receivers of Joint Estates
- CHAPTER 10-16 - Small Claims and Consumer Claims
- § 10-16-1 - Actions subject to chapter.
- § 10-16-10 - Amendment of statements – Informality of proceedings – Evidence.
- § 10-16-11 - Vacation of decisions or orders – Order of new hearing.
- § 10-16-12 - Manner of payment of judgment – Stay of execution.
- § 10-16-13 - Disbursements allowed as costs.
- § 10-16-14 - Appeals by defendant.
- § 10-16-15 - Remedies for enforcement of judgments.
- § 10-16-16 - Appropriations for carrying out chapter.
- § 10-16-2 - Jurisdiction of district court.
- § 10-16-3 - Venue of actions – Rules of practice.
- § 10-16-3.1 - Corporations – Representatives.
- § 10-16-4 - Filing fee – Waiver of appeal.
- § 10-16-5 - Rules of procedure.
- § 10-16-6 - Notations in docket – Refusal or return undelivered of notice to defendant.
- § 10-16-7 - Judgment on default by defendant.
- § 10-16-8 - Default by plaintiff – Prevention of abuse of procedure by claimants.
- § 10-16-9 - Filing of defense – Counterclaim.
- CHAPTER 10-17 - Trustee Process
- § 10-17-1 - "Trustee" defined.
- § 10-17-10 - Delivery of specific articles on execution.
- § 10-17-11 - Delivery of money to court before judgment.
- § 10-17-12 - Discharge of trustee by surrender or delivery.
- § 10-17-13 - Determination as to whether trustee is chargeable.
- § 10-17-14 - Liability of trustee for false answers.
- § 10-17-15 - Liability on failure to render account – Action against trustee.
- § 10-17-16 - Joint action against trustees failing to account.
- § 10-17-17 - Defense in name of defendant.
- § 10-17-18 - Dismissal of person served who holds no property.
- § 10-17-19 - Intervention by other claimant of estate.
- § 10-17-2 - Account by trustee as to attached property.
- § 10-17-20 - Questions of fact on additional allegations.
- § 10-17-21 - Apportionment of costs.
- § 10-17-22 - Costs and charges incurred by trustee.
- § 10-17-3 - Oath to account – Certified copy.
- § 10-17-4 - Time of filing account.
- § 10-17-5 - Surrender of property to officer.
- § 10-17-6 - Summons of garnishee as witness.
- § 10-17-7 - Amount with which trustee charged – Action against trustee.
- § 10-17-8 - Suits against separate trustees.
- § 10-17-9 - Satisfaction by trustee after judgment against defendant.
- CHAPTER 10-18 - Wage Earner Receivership
- § 10-18-1 - Short title.
- § 10-18-10 - Effect of approval of plan on prior secured creditors.
- § 10-18-11 - Subsequent creditors.
- § 10-18-12 - Claims brought to judgment – Priority in case of default.
- § 10-18-13 - Establishment of plan.
- § 10-18-14 - Contents and payments of plan.
- § 10-18-15 - Dispute of claims during pendency of proceedings.
- § 10-18-16 - Termination of the plan.
- § 10-18-17 - Duration of proceedings.
- § 10-18-18 - Subpoenas – Costs.
- § 10-18-19 - Deferred obligations of debtor during pendency of receivership proceedings.
- § 10-18-2 - Definitions.
- § 10-18-20 - Notices – Employment changes.
- § 10-18-21 - Payments by employers.
- § 10-18-3 - Filing of petition.
- § 10-18-4 - Appointment of receiver and assignment.
- § 10-18-5 - Resignation and removal of receiver – Termination of receivership.
- § 10-18-6 - Compensation of receiver.
- § 10-18-7 - Effect of filing.
- § 10-18-8 - Filing of the accepted plan with the secretary of state and its effect.
- § 10-18-9 - Effect of approval of plan on prior unsecured creditors.
- CHAPTER 10-19 - Rhode Island Medical Liability Actions
- CHAPTER 10-2 - Account
- CHAPTER 10-20 - State Environmental Rights
- § 10-20-1 - Legislative findings and purpose.
- § 10-20-10 - Rights and remedies nonexclusive.
- § 10-20-11 - Short title.
- § 10-20-2 - Definitions.
- § 10-20-3 - Civil actions – Environmental advocate – Notice – Intervention.
- § 10-20-4 - Burden of proof.
- § 10-20-5 - Appointment of referee.
- § 10-20-6 - Relief.
- § 10-20-7 - Remand for administrative or licensing proceedings.
- § 10-20-8 - Administrative and licensing proceedings – Intervention by environment advocate.
- § 10-20-9 - Actions against state – Challenge to environmental quality standard – Remand to state agency – Intervention – Venue.
- CHAPTER 10-3 - Arbitration
- § 10-3-1 - Short title.
- § 10-3-10 - Form and signature of arbitrators' award.
- § 10-3-11 - Order confirming award.
- § 10-3-12 - Grounds for vacating award.
- § 10-3-13 - Rehearing after vacation of award.
- § 10-3-14 - Modification or correction of award.
- § 10-3-15 - Notice of motion to vacate, modify, or correct award.
- § 10-3-16 - Judgment on award.
- § 10-3-17 - Papers filed for judgment.
- § 10-3-18 - Effect of judgment.
- § 10-3-19 - Appeal to supreme court.
- § 10-3-2 - Agreements to arbitrate subject to chapter.
- § 10-3-20 - Severability.
- § 10-3-21 - Sureties – Bound to arbitration award on construction contract.
- § 10-3-3 - Stay of actions on issues referable to arbitration.
- § 10-3-4 - Petition for arbitration – Service, hearing, and reference.
- § 10-3-5 - Determination as to whether issue is subject to arbitration.
- § 10-3-6 - Judicial appointment of arbitrators.
- § 10-3-7 - Manner of making and hearing applications.
- § 10-3-8 - Arbitrators' hearing – Summons of witnesses.
- § 10-3-9 - Taking of depositions.
- CHAPTER 10-4 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors
- § 10-4-1 - Residence of assignee – Bond.
- § 10-4-10 - Dividends to creditors – Assignee's report – Discharge of surety on bond.
- § 10-4-11 - Record of proceedings.
- § 10-4-12 - Appeal to supreme court – Certification of questions.
- § 10-4-13 - Chancery jurisdiction preserved – Provisions mandatory.
- § 10-4-2 - Filing of schedules and lists – Certificate of deed of assignment.
- § 10-4-3 - Place of filing of papers.
- § 10-4-4 - Recording and notice of assignments.
- § 10-4-5 - Removal or replacement of assignee.
- § 10-4-6 - Effect of assignment on liens.
- § 10-4-7 - Sale of assigned property – Continuation of business – Redemption of property subject to liens.
- § 10-4-8 - Demands for and protection of property by assignee.
- § 10-4-9 - Effect on suits and proceedings of death, resignation, or removal of assignee.
- CHAPTER 10-5 - Attachment
- § 10-5-1 - "Trustee" defined.
- § 10-5-10 - Value of goods attached.
- § 10-5-11 - Service of writ on defendant.
- § 10-5-12 - Custody of attached goods.
- § 10-5-13 - Defendant's bond.
- § 10-5-14 - Reduction of damages before bond.
- § 10-5-15 - Filing of bond and delivery of property to defendant.
- § 10-5-16 - Surrender of attached goods on defendant's bond.
- § 10-5-17 - Release of real estate on bond.
- § 10-5-17.1 - Discharge of sheriff 's bond for want of action.
- § 10-5-18 - Reduction of damages or partial release of property.
- § 10-5-19 - Attachment of corporate stock or trust estate.
- § 10-5-2 - Procedure.
- § 10-5-20 - Account rendered by corporate officer.
- § 10-5-21 - Filing of officer's account – Certification.
- § 10-5-22 - Defendant's bond on corporate stock or trust estate.
- § 10-5-23 - Release of stock or trust estate on acceptance of bond by officer.
- § 10-5-24 - Release of stock or trust estate by plaintiff.
- § 10-5-25 - Liens and claims on stock preserved.
- § 10-5-26 - Attachment of mortgaged personal property.
- § 10-5-27 - Sale of mortgaged property.
- § 10-5-28 - Proceeds of sale of mortgaged property.
- § 10-5-29 - Redemption of mortgage by plaintiff in attachment.
- § 10-5-3 - , 10-5-4. [Repealed.].
- § 10-5-30 - Defeat of attachment by failure to sell or redeem from mortgage.
- § 10-5-31 - Defendant in one county and property in another – Summons of defendants from different counties.
- § 10-5-32 - Surety on defendant's bond – Lien on surety's real estate.
- § 10-5-33 - Inventory included in return of writ.
- § 10-5-34 - Subsequent attachments of other property.
- § 10-5-35 - Application to sell perishable property or property expensive to keep.
- § 10-5-36 - Sale of perishable property or property expensive to keep.
- § 10-5-37 - , 10-5-38. [Repealed.].
- § 10-5-39 - Charges for attested copies restricted to charge for one person.
- § 10-5-40 - Attested copies on demand – Fee.
- § 10-5-41 - Time of attachment shown in return.
- § 10-5-42 - Appointment of receiver – Effect on attachment.
- § 10-5-43 - Prerequisites to dismissal of receivership.
- § 10-5-44 - Dissolution of attachment of real property for want of action.
- § 10-5-45 - Dissolution of attachment for failure to file complaint.
- § 10-5-46 - Dissolution of attachment of real estate after 20 years.
- § 10-5-5 - Writ of attachment after filing of equitable complaint.
- § 10-5-6 - Writ in tort action against nonresident.
- § 10-5-7 - Classes of property named in writ.
- § 10-5-8 - Garnishment of wages restricted to amounts not exempt – Child support to have priority.
- § 10-5-9 - Method of attaching real estate.
- CHAPTER 10-6 - Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors
- § 10-6-1 - Short title.
- § 10-6-10 - Uniformity of construction.
- § 10-6-11 - Severability.
- § 10-6-2 - "Joint tortfeasors" defined.
- § 10-6-3 - Right of contribution declared.
- § 10-6-4 - Payment as prerequisite – Limitation of actions.
- § 10-6-5 - Separate settlement with injured person.
- § 10-6-6 - Effect of judgment against one tortfeasor.
- § 10-6-7 - Effect of release of one tortfeasor on liability of others.
- § 10-6-8 - Liability to contribution of tortfeasor released by injured person.
- § 10-6-9 - Right of indemnity preserved.
- CHAPTER 10-7 - Death By Wrongful Act
- § 10-7-1 - Liability for damages for causing death.
- § 10-7-1.1 - Pecuniary damages – How determined.
- § 10-7-1.2 - Liability for loss of consortium – Liability for loss of society and companionship.
- § 10-7-10 - Damages not to estate or asset of estate.
- § 10-7-11 - Applicability to pending actions.
- § 10-7-12 - Applicability to actions commenced after passage.
- § 10-7-13 - Severability.
- § 10-7-14 - "Homemaker" defined.
- § 10-7-2 - Persons who may bring actions – Limitation of actions – Minimum recovery period.
- § 10-7-3 - Action by beneficiaries.
- § 10-7-4 - Cause surviving death of person liable.
- § 10-7-5 - Liability for medical expense and diminution of earning power.
- § 10-7-6 - Executor or administrator to bring § 10-7-5 action – Amount recovered to estate.
- § 10-7-7 - Pain and suffering recoverable – Limitation of action.
- § 10-7-7.1 - Punitive damages.
- § 10-7-8 - Cause surviving death of person liable.
- § 10-7-9 - Criminal proceedings not prerequisite.
- CHAPTER 10-7.1 - Libel of a Deceased Person
- § 10-7.1-1 - Liability for damages for libel of a deceased person.
- § 10-7.1-2 - Action by executor or administrator – Persons benefited – Limitation of action.
- § 10-7.1-3 - Action by beneficiaries.
- § 10-7.1-4 - Cause surviving death of person liable.
- § 10-7.1-5 - Damages not to estate or asset of estate.
- CHAPTER 10-8 - Distress Warrants
- CHAPTER 10-9 - Habeas Corpus
- § 10-9-1 - General right to writ.
- § 10-9-10 - Body brought with return or statement.
- § 10-9-11 - Illness of person confined.
- § 10-9-12 - Remand, bail, or commitment pending judgment.
- § 10-9-13 - Failure of officer to deliver copy of process by which prisoner held.
- § 10-9-14 - Examination of cause of restraint – Adjournment.
- § 10-9-15 - Notice to party on whose process restraint based.
- § 10-9-16 - Notice to attorney general or complainant in criminal cases.
- § 10-9-17 - Denial of facts in return or statement – Hearing of evidence.
- § 10-9-18 - Discharge on failure to show cause for restraint.
- § 10-9-19 - Admission to bail.
- § 10-9-2 - [Repealed.].
- § 10-9-20 - Order as to bail when person held on civil mesne process.
- § 10-9-21 - Remand to custody.
- § 10-9-22 - Appeals and exceptions barred – Subsequent application to supreme court allowed.
- § 10-9-23 - Enforcement of writ by attachment as for contempt.
- § 10-9-24 - Attachment and commitment of sheriff or deputy.
- § 10-9-25 - Forfeiture for failure to receive and execute writ.
- § 10-9-26 - Precept after disobedience of writ.
- § 10-9-27 - Transfer or concealment of prisoner with intent to avoid writ.
- § 10-9-28 - Common law remedies not barred by penalties.
- § 10-9-29 - Rearrest of discharged person.
- § 10-9-3 - Application for writ – Contents.
- § 10-9-30 - Judicial powers not restrained.
- § 10-9-31 - Power of justices to admit to bail.
- § 10-9-32 - Judicial power to bring in criminal defendants and witnesses.
- § 10-9-4 - Issuance of writ – Forms.
- § 10-9-5 - Court to which writ returnable.
- § 10-9-6 - Return to Providence superior court when other courts not in session.
- § 10-9-7 - Receipt and return of writ.
- § 10-9-8 - Return or statement by person to whom writ directed.
- § 10-9-9 - Signature and oath to return or statement.
- CHAPTER 10-9.1 - Post Conviction Remedy
- § 10-9.1-1 - Remedy – To whom available – Conditions.
- § 10-9.1-10 - Innocence protection – Definitions.
- § 10-9.1-11 - Innocence protection – Mandatory preservation of biological evidence.
- § 10-9.1-12 - Innocence protection – DNA testing of evidence.
- § 10-9.1-2 - Court in which brought – Appeal of district court denial.
- § 10-9.1-3 - Commencement of proceedings – Verification – Filing – Service.
- § 10-9.1-4 - Application – Contents.
- § 10-9.1-5 - Representation for indigent applicants.
- § 10-9.1-6 - Pleadings and judgment on pleadings.
- § 10-9.1-7 - Procedure – Evidence – Order.
- § 10-9.1-8 - Waiver of or failure to assert claims.
- § 10-9.1-9 - Appeal.