Massachusetts General Laws
Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein
Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution

Section 3 - Entry of Judgment in District Courts; Summary Process - Section 3. District courts may by rule establish the time...

Section 4 - Judgment Nunc Pro Tunc - Section 4. Every judgment or order of the supreme judicial,...

Section 6 - Judgment on Default; Several Defendants - Section 6. In an action against two or more defendants...

Section 7 - Judgments Against Defaulting Defendants; Separate Executions - Section 7. If in such action any defendants are defaulted,...

Section 8 - Interest on Judgments; Warrant or Execution - Section 8. When judgment is rendered upon an award of...

Section 9 - Judgment for Penalty Forfeited - Section 9. If in an action for a breach of...

Section 10 - Judgment for Penal Sum; Amount of Execution - Section 10. The court shall award an execution for so...

Section 11 - Further Damages; Remedy - Section 11. If a further amount afterwards becomes due on...

Section 12 - Proceedings in Actions for Further Damages - Section 12. The amount due in such action shall be...

Section 13 - Actions for Damages Instead of Penalty - Section 13. The four preceding sections shall not prevent a...

Section 14 - Executions in Actions on Judgments - Section 14. (a) If a judgment is rendered for the...

Section 15 - Action in Erroneous Venue; Execution - Section 15. If judgment is rendered in a local action...

Section 16 - Execution Not to Issue Until Appellate Review Exhausted - Section 16. No execution shall issue upon a judgment until...

Section 17 - Executions; Time for Issuing; Successive Executions; Entry of Satisfactions - Section 17. An original execution shall not issue after the...

Section 18 - Executions of District Court; Where Enforceable - Section 18. Executions issued by a district court may be...

Section 19 - Unsatisfied Judgments; Expiration of Time for Taking Out Executions; Remedies - Section 19. If a judgment remains unsatisfied after the expiration...

Section 20 - Erroneous Levy; New Execution; Motion - Section 20. If an execution is returned satisfied in whole...

Section 21 - Erroneous Levy on Member of Corporation; Subsequent Proceedings - Section 21. If an execution against a corporation is satisfied...

Section 22 - Forms of Execution - Section 22. The forms of execution shall be the same...

Section 23 - Execution on Judgments Against Fiduciaries, Sheriffs, etc.; Execution for Possession of Rented or Leased Dwelling - Section 23. Original executions issuing on judgments against executors, administrators,...

Section 23a - Recognition and Enforcement of Money-Judgments of Foreign States; Definitions - Section 23A. Except as hereinafter provided, any foreign judgment that...

Section 24 - Bankruptcy or Insolvency; Successive Executions on Unsatisfied Judgments; Remedies - Section 24. If a plaintiff would be entitled to a...

Section 25 - Special Judgment Where Insolvent, etc., Has Given Bond to Dissolve an Attachment - Section 25. If a plaintiff would be entitled to a...

Section 26 - Petitioner for Review Adjudged Bankrupt, etc.; Special Judgments - Section 26. The court may enter a special judgment, with...

Section 27 - Set-Off of Execution Generally; Exceptions - Section 27. Executions between the same parties may, if required...

Section 28 - Levy of Execution; Service; Executions in the Alternative - Section 28. If an execution is in the alternative, so...

Section 29 - Levy of Execution on Land; Personal Property - Section 29. If the creditor directs an officer to levy...

Section 30 - Levy on Corporate Property - Section 30. An execution against a corporation, if levied upon...

Section 31 - Property Liable to Execution - Section 31. All property which by common law is liable...

Section 32 - Current Coin Taken on Execution - Section 32. Current gold or silver coin may be taken...

Section 33 - Bank Notes Taken on Execution - Section 33. Bank notes and all other bills or evidences...

Section 34 - Property Exempt From Execution - Section 34. The following property of the debtor shall be...

Section 34a - Annuities, Pensions, Profit Sharing or Retirement Plans; Insolvency; Attachment - Section 34A. The right or interest of any person in...

Section 35 - Indemnification of Officer - Section 35. If there is reasonable doubt as to the...

Section 36 - Sale of Personalty on Execution; Costs - Section 36. Personal property seized on execution shall be safely...

Section 37 - Notice of Sale - Section 37. The officer shall give notice of the time...

Section 38 - Property Valued in Excess of Three Hundred Dollars; Notice of Sale - Section 38. If the value of such property to be...

Section 39 - Adjournment of Sale; Notice - Section 39. If, at the time appointed for the sale,...

Section 40 - Adjournment Upon Injunction - Section 40. If a sale of such property on execution...

Section 41 - Failure of Highest Bidder to Purchase; Re-Sale - Section 41. If the highest bidder for an article at...

Section 42 - Return of Execution; Liability for Fraud - Section 42. The officer making such sale shall in his...

Section 43 - Proceeds of Sale; Disposition - Section 43. The officer shall apply the money arising from...

Section 44 - Proceeds of Sale; Disposition Among Several Creditors - Section 44. If the property sold on execution has been...

Section 45 - Successive Attachments; Notice; Liability of Attaching Officer - Section 45. If an attachment or seizure on execution is...

Section 46 - Nature of Term for Years; Levy; Notice of Sale - Section 46. Terms for years, if the original lease was...

Section 47 - Suspension of Levy by Prior Seizure - Section 47. If personal property has been seized on execution,...

Section 48 - Liability of Property Not Sold on Prior Seizure; Service of Execution - Section 48. If such property is sold in part under...

Section 49 - Death, etc., of Officer Beginning Levy or Service; Completion of Service; Certificates - Section 49. If an officer, who has begun to serve...

Section 50 - Removal of Officer After Beginning of Levy - Section 50. If an officer has begun to serve an...

Section 51 - Death of Party; Completion of Service - Section 51. If either party dies after any property, real...

Section 52 - Detaining Money Collected on Execution; Penalty - Section 52. An officer who, upon demand by the creditor,...