Massachusetts General Laws
Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property
Chapter 241 - Partition of Land

Section 1 - Persons Entitled to Partition - Section 1. Any person, except a tenant by the entirety,...

Section 2 - Jurisdiction; Probate Courts; Land Court - Section 2. Probate courts and the land court shall have...

Section 3 - Land Within Jurisdiction of Probate Court in Two or More Counties - Section 3. If a case is begun in a probate...

Section 4 - Extent of Land Partitioned - Section 4. The court may make partition of all or...

Section 5 - Division of Shares - Section 5. The court may set off to the petitioner...

Section 6 - Form and Contents of Petition; Interveners - Section 6. The petition shall set forth on oath the...

Section 7 - Notice; Filing; Registered Land - Section 7. Upon the filing of a petition for partition,...

Section 8 - Notice Given by Citation; Contents; Publication; Service - Section 8. Notice shall be given by a citation containing...

Section 9 - Persons Not Personally Served; Absent, Incompetent or Undetermined Parties - Section 9. If any party named in the petition has...

Section 10 - Interlocutory Decree; Redemption - Section 10. If it is found that the petitioner is...

Section 11 - Dispute as to Ownership of Share - Section 11. If the ownership of any share appears to...

Section 12 - Commissioners; Appointment; Duties - Section 12. If the court determines the petitioner entitled to...

Section 13 - Land in Different Counties - Section 13. If the land lies in different counties, the...

Section 14 - Indivisible Land; Partition - Section 14. If a part of the land cannot be...

Section 15 - Money Awards; Payment or Security - Section 15. If money is awarded to make the partition...

Section 16 - Return of Commissioners; Confirmation; Amendments; Final Decrees; Recording - Section 16. The court may after hearing accept and confirm...

Section 17 - Examination of Title, Investigations, etc.; Omitted Parties; Improper Descriptions - Section 17. The court may at any time direct an...

Section 18 - Conclusiveness of Partition - Section 18. The partition by division, when confirmed and established...

Section 19 - Persons Not Named in Petition Claiming Assigned Shares; Partitions by Sale - Section 19. A person who was not made a party...

Section 20 - Stranger Claiming as Co-Tenant; Remedies - Section 20. A person who was not made a party...

Section 21 - Stranger Claiming Paramount Title - Section 21. A person who has not appeared and who...

Section 22 - Costs - Section 22. The reasonable expenses and charges of partition proceedings,...

Section 23 - Improvements; Compensation - Section 23. If the court in which partition proceedings are...

Section 24 - Improvements Made Before New Partition; Compensation - Section 24. If after a first partition improvements have been...

Section 25 - Equity Jurisdiction - Section 25. The court in which a petition has been...

Section 26 - Death of Party Named in Petition - Section 26. If a party named in the petition has...

Section 27 - Persons Evicted - Section 27. If a person to or for whom a...

Section 28 - Mortgagee, etc., of Co-Tenant - Section 28. A person having a mortgage, attachment or other...

Section 29 - Improvements Made by Person Evicted; Compensation - Section 29. A person holding land under a partition made...

Section 30 - Trusteeship, etc.; Effect on Partition - Section 30. The fact that a cotenant is, alone or...

Section 31 - Partition by Sale - Section 31. In partition proceedings the court may order the...

Section 32 - Liability of Commissioners; Partition by Sale - Section 32. If the commissioners, after making a sale in...

Section 33 - Attachments or Liens; Failure to Disclose; Penalties - Section 33. Whoever receives any proceeds of a sale of...

Section 34 - Unclaimed Proceeds of Sale; Disposition - Section 34. If the proceeds of a sale, or any...

Section 35 - Trustees; Appointment; Bond - Section 35. If in any share there are estates in...

Section 36 - Water Rights; Other Incorporeal Hereditaments; Division - Section 36. Joint tenants or tenants in common of a...

Section 37 - Nonnavigable Natural Streams; Partition of Water - Section 37. Under the preceding section, partition may be made...