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Library Materials

  • 18A Am Jur Pleading & Practice Names (2006)

  • 57 Am. Jur. 2d (2001). Name

    • ALR Index :Assumed or Fictitious Names 

    • Marilyn J. Ward Ford, Connecticut Corporation Law & Practice (2007) 

    • Dowling’s Digest: Names

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Selected Statutes:

Chapter 620 – Trade names

  • Sec. 35-1. Use of fictitious business names. Prohibitions and exceptions. Penalty. Unfair trade practices.

  • Sec. 35-2. Use of word “banking” and similar words as part of business name.

  • Sec. 53a-130. Criminal impersonation: Class B misdemeanor.

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