Section 10. If the goods when replevied had been taken on execution, or if they had been attached and judgment is afterward rendered for the attaching creditor, and if in either case the service of the execution is delayed by reason of the replevin, the damages to be assessed for the defendant upon a judgment for a return shall be at the rate of not less than twelve per cent a year on the value of the goods for the time during which the service of the execution was so delayed.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases
Section 1 - Distrained or Impounded Beasts
Section 3 - Amount of Bond; Appraisal of Property
Section 5 - Judgment for Defendant
Section 6 - Judgment for Plaintiff
Section 7 - Goods Unlawfully Taken, Detained or Attached
Section 8 - Bond; Amount; Appraisal of Goods
Section 9 - Judgment for Defendant
Section 10 - Damages; Assessment; Rate
Section 11 - Money Recovered by Officer After Replevin of Goods Attached, etc.; Disposition
Section 12 - Application of Amounts Received by Creditor
Section 13 - Judgment for Plaintiff
Section 14 - Sureties on Bond; Approval
Section 15 - Approval of Sureties; Proceedings
Section 17 - Defects in Bond; Dismissal of Action
Section 18 - Actions Against Sureties; Serving and Entering Writ; Limitations
Section 19 - Damages; Assessment
Section 20 - Judgment for Return of Goods Attached