Massachusetts General Laws
Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property
Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry

Section 1 - Estates Recoverable - Section 1. All estates of freehold in fee simple, fee...

Section 2 - Action to Recover Freehold Estates Against Commonwealth - Section 2. A civil action to recover freehold estates in...

Section 3 - Form of Declaration - Section 3. The plaintiff shall declare on his own seisin...

Section 4 - Actual Entry; Seisin; Proof; Right of Entry - Section 4. The plaintiff need not prove an actual entry...

Section 5 - Manner of Prosecuting Action - Section 5. Such action shall be prosecuted in the same...

Section 6 - Disseisors - Section 6. A person in possession of land demanded in...

Section 7 - Actual Ouster; Effect - Section 7. If the person in possession has actually ousted...

Section 8 - Joint Tenants; Tenants in Common; Actions - Section 8. Joint tenants or tenants in common may join...

Section 9 - Laws and Rules Governing - Section 9. The law and practice relative to pleadings and...

Section 10 - Pleas in Answer - Section 10. Non-tenure, disclaimer, several tenancy and sole tenancy may...

Section 11 - Parts or Portions Recoverable - Section 11. The plaintiff may recover any specific part or...

Section 12 - Rents; Profits; Destruction or Waste - Section 12. If the plaintiff recovers judgment, he shall recover...

Section 13 - Measure of Damages - Section 13. Rents and profits for which the defendant is...

Section 14 - Use of Improvements Not Element of Damages - Section 14. In determining rents and profits, the value of...

Section 15 - Limitation of Defendant's Liability - Section 15. The defendant shall not be liable for rents...

Section 16 - Improvements - Section 16. If the land demanded has been actually held...

Section 17 - Possession Under Supposedly Good Title; Effect - Section 17. The defendant shall also be entitled to like...

Section 18 - Counterclaim - Section 18. The defendant may interpose a counterclaim for the...

Section 20 - Limitation of Allowances - Section 20. The amount recovered by the defendant upon such...

Section 21 - Court Assessments; Postponements - Section 21. Except as provided in sections twenty-two to twenty-four,...

Section 22 - Jury Assessments; Postponements - Section 22. If trial by jury shall be demanded and...

Section 23 - Resumption of Procedure for Assessment by Jury - Section 23. If issues are postponed under the preceding section,...

Section 24 - Waiver of Jury Trial - Section 24. If issues have been postponed under section twenty-two,...

Section 25 - Assessment by Assessors - Section 25. In cases where an assessment of the amounts...

Section 26 - Judgments to Both Parties - Section 26. The defendant shall have judgment upon his counterclaim...

Section 27 - Excess of Improvements Over Rents and Profits; Effect - Section 27. If the amount found due to the defendant...

Section 28 - Payment of Balance Due Defendant - Section 28. The plaintiff shall, except as provided in the...

Section 29 - Writ of Seisin Before Judgment - Section 29. If the plaintiff has had judgment for seisin...

Section 30 - Collection of Balance Due Defendant - Section 30. If the defendant has judgment for such improvements,...

Section 31 - Valuation Without Considering Improvements - Section 31. If the defendant counterclaims for improvements as before...

Section 32 - Relinquishment of Estate; Recording Election - Section 32. After said determination of value the plaintiff may,...

Section 33 - Relinquishment of Estate; Effect; Payments by Defendant - Section 33. If the plaintiff elects to relinquish the land...

Section 34 - Nonpayment by Defendant; Effect - Section 34. Said payments shall be made to the plaintiff...

Section 35 - Failure of Title to Relinquished Land; Remedies; Notice - Section 35. If the defendant or his heirs or assigns,...

Section 36 - Effect on Mode of Payment - Section 36. If, after judgment for the plaintiff, either party...

Section 37 - Writ of Seisin - Section 37. The writ of seisin issued in such case...

Section 38 - Recovery by Life Tenant From Remainderman, Etc. - Section 38. If a plaintiff claiming an estate for life...

Section 39 - Amount Due From Remainderman; Determination - Section 39. If the amount due from the remainderman or...

Section 40 - Limitation on Amount Recoverable - Section 40. The remainderman or reversioner, or those claiming under...

Section 41 - Time for Bringing Action; Limitation - Section 41. The remainderman or reversioner, or those claiming under...

Section 42 - Recording Execution for Possession and Return - Section 42. An officer serving an execution issued upon a...

Section 43 - Actions for Mesne Profits or Damage to Land - Section 43. This chapter shall not prevent the plaintiff from...

Section 44 - Actions by Mortgagees - Section 44. The provisions of this chapter relative to rents...