EXHIBIT
9
OPINION OF AND
CONSENT OF COUNSEL
April,
2000
C.M. Life Insurance
Company
140 Garden
Street
Hartford, CT
06154
Re:
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Post-Effective
Amendment No. 9 to Registration Statement
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No. 33-61679 filed
on Form N-4
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Ladies and
Gentlemen:
This opinion is
furnished in connection with the filing of Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to
Registration Statement No. 33-61679 on Form N-4 under the Securities Act of
1933 for C.M. Life Insurance Company’s (“CM Life”) flexible
premium variable annuity contract (the “Contract”). C.M.
Multi-Account A issues the Contract.
As an attorney for CM
Life, I provide legal advice to CM Life in connection with the operation of
its variable products. In such role I am familiar with the Post-Effective
Amendment for the Contract. In so acting, I have made such examination of
the law and examined such records and documents as in my judgment are
necessary or appropriate to enable me to render the opinion expressed below.
I am of the following opinion:
1.
CM Life is a valid and subsisting corporation, organized and
operated under the laws of the state of Connecticut and is subject to
regulation by the Connecticut Commissioner of Insurance.
2.
C.M. Multi-Account A is a separate account validly established
and maintained by CM Life in accordance with Connecticut law.
3.
All of the prescribed corporate procedures for the issuance of
the Contract have been followed, and all applicable state laws have been
complied with.
I hereby consent to
the use of this opinion as an exhibit to this Post-Effective
Amendment.
