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Section 1 - Transitory Actions; General Provisions - Section 1. A transitory action shall, except as otherwise provided,...
Section 2 - Transitory Actions; District Courts - Section 2. Except as provided in section twenty-one of chapter...
Section 2a - Consolidation of Pending Actions Arising Out of Same Accident or Transaction - Section 2A. Whenever cross actions between the same parties or...
Section 2b - Actions Arising Out of Same Accident or Transaction Pending in Both Superior and District Courts; Transfer to Superior Court - Section 2B. Whenever cross actions between the same parties or...
Section 2c - Actions Arising Out of Same Accident or Transaction; Procedure After Transfer - Section 2C. Whenever any action or proceeding is transferred to...
Section 3 - Transitory Actions; Enumeration - Section 3. Every action for rent, use and occupation or...
Section 4 - Replevin Actions - Section 4. An action brought pursuant to chapter two hundred...
Section 5 - Actions by the Commonwealth - Section 5. A civil action in which the commonwealth is...
Section 6 - Counties; Actions by or Against - Section 6. A local or transitory action by a county...
Section 7 - Defective Ways, etc.; Negligence Actions - Section 7. An action against a town or person to...
Section 8 - Corporations; Actions by or Against - Section 8. Transitory actions, except those mentioned in the preceding...
Section 8a - Reciprocal or Inter-Insurance Exchange; Transitory Actions by or Against Subscribers - Section 8A. Transitory actions by or against the subscribers to...
Section 9 - Transitory Actions by or Against City of Boston - Section 9. An action by or against the city of...
Section 10 - Actions by City of Boston; Transfer From County of Suffolk - Section 10. The defendant in an action brought in Suffolk...
Section 11 - Executors or Administrators; Transitory Actions by or Against - Section 11. A transitory action by or against an executor...
Section 12 - Land Title Actions - Section 12. If a tract of land lies in two...
Section 13 - Change of Venue - Section 13. If the supreme judicial or superior court finds...
Section 14 - Forfeitures - Section 14. A civil action for the recovery of a...
Section 15 - Erroneous Venue; Procedure - Section 15. If an error in venue is discovered at...
Section 19 - Unknown Defendant; Procedure - Section 19. In a civil action if the name of...
Section 20 - Process; Issuance - Section 20. Process in the supreme judicial and superior court...
Section 31 - Summons; Leaving at Last Known Address, Etc. - Section 31. In an action brought in the district court,...
Section 31a - Summons; Service Upon Persons Engaged in Voting - Section 31A. Personal service of a writ or summons upon...
Section 34 - Further Notice to Absent Defendant - Section 34. If the defendant is out of the commonwealth,...
Section 35 - Process; Duty of Officer to State Place of Service in Return - Section 35. When process is served by an officer by...
Section 37 - Corporations; Persons Authorized to Be Served - Section 37. In an action against a county, city, town,...
Section 38 - Foreign Corporations - Section 38. In an action against a foreign corporation, except...
Section 39 - Foreign Insurance Company; Manner of Service - Section 39. In an action against a foreign insurance company...
Section 39a - Service on Certain Insurance Companies Severally, or Jointly and Severally, Liable - Section 39A. In an action against insurance companies severally liable...
Section 39b - Reciprocal or Inter-Insurance Exchange; Service on Attorney in Fact of Subscribers - Section 39B. In an action against the subscribers of a...
Section 40 - Voluntary Associations, Service On - Section 40. In an action against a voluntary association or...
Section 42 - Property Subject to Attachment - Section 42. All real and personal property liable to be...
Section 42a - Amount Liquidated or Ascertainable by Calculation; Limitation on Attachment - Section 42A. In an action or suit for an amount...
Section 43 - Cars and Vessels; Attachment - Section 43. Railroad cars and engines and street railway cars,...
Section 44 - Ships or Vessels; Conditions Precedent - Section 44. No ship or vessel shall be attached in...
Section 44a - Motor Vehicles; Conditions Precedent - Section 44A. Motor vehicles registered under the law of this...
Section 45 - Property of Newspaper Offices - Section 45. The press, type, stands, cases, paper and other...
Section 45a - Attaching Officer; Powers to Require Security - Section 45A. If there is reasonable doubt as to the...
Section 47 - Successive Attachments on Different Writs - Section 47. Personal property which has been attached or taken...
Section 48 - Keeper; Appointment; Costs - Section 48. An officer directed to make an attachment of...
Section 49 - Attached Personalty; Keeping on Owner's Premises - Section 49. Personal property which has been attached may, subject...
Section 50 - Bulky Goods - Section 50. If an attachment is made of articles of...
Section 52 - Personalty; Attachment of Proceeds of Sale - Section 52. If personal property has been sold or disposed...
Section 53 - Further Attachment of Replevied Property - Section 53. Property which has been replevied from an officer...
Section 54 - Replevin; Liability of Plaintiff for Value - Section 54. If there is judgment for a return of...
Section 55 - Death or Removal of First Attaching Officer - Section 55. If an officer dies or is removed from...
Section 56 - Death or Removal of First Attaching Officer; Procedure in Subsequent Attachment - Section 56. The officer who makes such later attachment shall...
Section 57 - Replevied Property; Mode of Attaching - Section 57. Property which has been replevied from an attaching...
Section 58 - Death of Attaching Officer; Continuance of Attachment - Section 58. Property which has been attached by an officer,...
Section 59 - Duration of Attachment After Judgment - Section 59. Upon judgment for the plaintiff in a civil...
Section 62 - General Provisions - Section 62. In attaching land, or a right or interest...
Section 63 - Copy of Writ; Deposit in Registry of Deeds - Section 63. No attachment of land or of any leasehold...
Section 64 - Attaching Officer; Duty - Section 64. The officer who makes such attachment shall deposit...
Section 65 - Register; Duty; Fees - Section 65. The register of deeds shall note on such...
Section 66 - Attachment; Time of Taking Effect - Section 66. If the copy of the writ is deposited,...
Section 67 - Fraudulently Conveyed Realty; General Provisions - Section 67. If an attachment on mesne process is made...
Section 68 - Fraudulently Conveyed Realty; Duty of Register - Section 68. The register in such case, in addition to...
Section 69 - Papers in Actions in Federal Courts; Duties of Registers - Section 69. Registers of deeds shall perform the same duties...
Section 70 - Encumbered Realty - Section 70. An attachment of land which is subject to...
Section 71 - Attachment of Shares of Stock Prohibited - Section 71. Shares of stock shall not be attached in...
Section 72 - Attachment of Property in Possession of Bailee; Limitation - Section 72. If goods are delivered to a carrier or...
Section 73 - Carrier or Warehouseman; Property in Possession - Section 73. Except as provided in the preceding section, property...
Section 74 - Mortgaged or Sold Under Conditional Sales Contract - Section 74. Personal property of a debtor which is subject...
Section 75 - Mortgagee, Lienor, or Conditional Vendor; Duty to State Account - Section 75. Within a reasonable time after such property has...
Section 76 - Excessive Demands; Penalty - Section 76. If the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor,...
Section 77 - Proceeds of Sale; Payment of Creditors - Section 77. If property which has been attached and redeemed...
Section 78 - Redemption of Mortgage; Duty of Debtor to Repay Redemption Price - Section 78. If the attaching creditor, after having redeemed the...
Section 79 - Holder of Encumbrance; Summoning; Examination - Section 79. Personal property upon which a mortgage or lien...
Section 80 - Amount Due; Determination - Section 80. If, upon such examination, or, upon the verdict...
Section 81 - Validity of Mortgage; Determination - Section 81. If the attaching creditor denies the validity of...
Section 82 - Creditor to Retain Amount Paid by Him - Section 82. When the creditor has paid to the mortgagee,...
Section 83 - Creditor; Right to Hold Property Until Repaid Upon Failure to Recover Judgment - Section 83. If the attaching creditor, after having paid the...
Section 83a - Application of Secs. 74 to 83 - Section 83A. Sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply...
Section 84 - Insufficient Service of Process; Dismissal of Action or Further Service - Section 84. If in a civil action the defendant makes...
Section 86a - Equitable Attachments; Allowance After Entry of Judgment - Section 86A. Upon motion of the plaintiff at any time...
Section 87 - Sale of Attached Personal Property - Section 87. Personal property which has been attached on one...
Section 88 - Perishable Property; Appraisal and Sale - Section 88. If an attachment is made of animals or...
Section 89 - Perishable Property; Appraisal and Sale; Proceedings - Section 89. Upon such application, the attaching officer shall give...
Section 90 - Absent Defendant; Notice - Section 90. If the defendant is not within the commonwealth...
Section 91 - Appraisers; Manner of Appointment - Section 91. One appraiser shall be appointed by the creditor...
Section 92 - Perishable Property; Sale After Appraisal - Section 92. The appraisers shall examine the attached property and,...
Section 93 - Perishable Property; Delivery to Debtor; Condition - Section 93. The property so appraised shall, if he requires...
Section 94 - Bond; Duty to Return With Writs - Section 94. The officer who takes such bond shall return...
Section 95 - Action on Bond; Executions for Costs Against Attaching Creditors - Section 95. If judgment is rendered for the defendants in...
Section 97 - Action on Bond; Distribution of Money by Court - Section 97. The court may, upon a hearing, determine the...
Section 98 - Action on Bond; Protection of Prior Attachments - Section 98. No judgment or execution shall be awarded for...
Section 99 - Action on Bond; Right of Creditor Not Joining - Section 99. A creditor who is entitled to the benefit...
Section 100 - Action on Bond; Limitation - Section 100. No creditor whose cause of action on such...
Section 101 - Creditors; Payment and Satisfaction - Section 101. If property which has been sold, or appraised...
Section 102 - Appraisal at Request of Part Owner - Section 102. If personal property of two or more part...
Section 103 - Delivery to Part Owner; Conditions Precedent - Section 103. The property so appraised shall be delivered to...
Section 104 - Pledge of Property - Section 104. If such appraised value or any part thereof...
Section 105 - Restoration - Section 105. If the attachment is dissolved, the party to...
Section 106 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment: Application - Section 106. If real or personal property has been attached...
Section 107 - Affidavit and Bond - Section 107. The petitioner, or a person in his behalf,...
Section 108 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment; Finding of Court - Section 108. If the court finds that a part of...
Section 109 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment; Effect of Pleadings - Section 109. The proceedings between the adverse claimants or plaintiffs...
Section 110 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment; Defences - Section 110. No attachment shall be dissolved as aforesaid by...
Section 111 - Costs; Damages - Section 111. The court may, upon such inquiry, award to...
Section 112 - Proceeding Upon Appeal - Section 112. If, during the pendency of the proceedings, the...
Section 113 - Judgment; Force and Effect - Section 113. The judgment of the court upon such an...
Section 113a - Method of Dissolving, Discharging or Reducing Attachments - Section 113A. Attachments in all cases in law, equity or...
Section 114 - Excessive or Unreasonable Attachments; Manner of Reduction or Discharge - Section 114. If an excessive or unreasonable attachment, by trustee...
Section 114a - Real Estate Attachments; Expiration by Operation of Law - Section 114A. An attachment of land, or of a right...
Section 115 - Dissolution of Attachment Upon Exhaustion of Appellate Review - Section 115. If the judgment in a civil action is...
Section 115a - Failure of Service Upon Defendant - Section 115A. If real property of the defendant is attached...
Section 116 - Death of Defendant - Section 116. An attachment of real or personal property shall...
Section 117 - Attaching Officer; Liability for Net Proceeds - Section 117. If the officer has, before such demand, sold...
Section 118 - Liability of Creditor for Proceeds Paid Over to Him - Section 118. If the officer in such case has, before...
Section 119 - Counterclaim - Section 119. The defendant, in an action founded on either...
Section 120 - Dissolution of Attachment Upon Giving of Bond - Section 120. A defendant whose property has been attached in...
Section 121 - Bond; Hearing Before Approval - Section 121. Before such bond is approved, the defendant, or...
Section 122 - Debtor's Fees and Costs - Section 122. If the attachment is dissolved and the defendant...
Section 123 - Debtor's Bond; Filing - Section 123. Such bond and the bond required by section...
Section 124 - Release of Sureties of Insolvent Debtor - Section 124. If, within four months after an attachment of...
Section 125 - Bond to Pay Value of Property - Section 125. A defendant may, at any time before execution,...
Section 126 - Fees - Section 126. The magistrate may adjourn such hearing from time...
Section 127 - Fraudulently Conveyed Realty - Section 127. If an attachment of real property is made...
Section 128 - Deposit - Section 128. A defendant may dissolve an attachment by depositing...
Section 129 - Individual Property of One Defendant - Section 129. A defendant whose individual property has been attached...
Section 130 - Dissolution of Attachment Upon Appointment of Receiver - Section 130. An attachment of property shall be dissolved by...
Section 131 - Discharge of Receiver - Section 131. If an attachment has been dissolved in the...
Section 132 - Dissolution of Attachment of Real Estate Upon Release by Plaintiff - Section 132. An attachment of real estate shall be dissolved...
Section 133 - Persons Authorized; Approval - Section 133. A bond which is required to be given...