Connecticut General Statutes Title 52. Civil Actions § 52-387. Scire facias; defense by assignee or claimant

When a scire facias is brought to recover a debt or effects taken by a foreign attachment, if any person or persons, either jointly or severally, claim such debt as assignee or assignees thereof, or such effects as owner or owners thereof, the defendant in such scire facias, having notice or knowledge of such assignment, ownership or claim, may give notice in writing, signed by proper authority and duly served, to such claimant or claimants, or his or their attorney, that such scire facias is pending, and that he or they may appear, if they see cause, and defend against it; which notice, when the claimant or claimants reside out of the state, shall be given in such time and manner as the court, before which such action is pending, directs; and thereupon, unless such claimant or claimants, within such time as such court may direct, give to such defendant sufficient security, to the approval of the court, to indemnify him against all costs, he may suffer judgment to be given against him on such scire facias, which shall be a bar to the claim of the assignee or assignees of the debt, or the owner or owners of the effects, against him for the same. If such assignee or assignees or owner or owners give such security and make effectual defense against the scire facias, he or they shall be entitled to the costs recovered against the plaintiff; but if he or they fail to make an effectual defense, the judgment rendered on the scire facias against the defendant shall be a bar to any claim against him by them for such debt or effects. If, after such security has been given, the defendant, on due notice given him, neglects to appear and disclose on oath, if required, on the trial of such scire facias, or, if a commission is issued, neglects to make disclosure before the commissioners, he shall take no benefit by the provisions of this section, nor of such security.