Section 2. Probate courts and the land court shall have concurrent jurisdiction of all petitions for partition. Any petition for partition may be filed in the probate court for any county where any part of the land included in the petition lies, or in the land court for any land within the commonwealth. The petition may include any or all of the common land within the commonwealth.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property
Chapter 241 - Partition of Land
Section 1 - Persons Entitled to Partition
Section 2 - Jurisdiction; Probate Courts; Land Court
Section 3 - Land Within Jurisdiction of Probate Court in Two or More Counties
Section 4 - Extent of Land Partitioned
Section 5 - Division of Shares
Section 6 - Form and Contents of Petition; Interveners
Section 7 - Notice; Filing; Registered Land
Section 8 - Notice Given by Citation; Contents; Publication; Service
Section 9 - Persons Not Personally Served; Absent, Incompetent or Undetermined Parties
Section 10 - Interlocutory Decree; Redemption
Section 11 - Dispute as to Ownership of Share
Section 12 - Commissioners; Appointment; Duties
Section 13 - Land in Different Counties
Section 14 - Indivisible Land; Partition
Section 15 - Money Awards; Payment or Security
Section 16 - Return of Commissioners; Confirmation; Amendments; Final Decrees; Recording
Section 17 - Examination of Title, Investigations, etc.; Omitted Parties; Improper Descriptions
Section 18 - Conclusiveness of Partition
Section 19 - Persons Not Named in Petition Claiming Assigned Shares; Partitions by Sale
Section 20 - Stranger Claiming as Co-Tenant; Remedies
Section 21 - Stranger Claiming Paramount Title
Section 23 - Improvements; Compensation
Section 24 - Improvements Made Before New Partition; Compensation
Section 25 - Equity Jurisdiction
Section 26 - Death of Party Named in Petition
Section 28 - Mortgagee, etc., of Co-Tenant
Section 29 - Improvements Made by Person Evicted; Compensation
Section 30 - Trusteeship, etc.; Effect on Partition
Section 31 - Partition by Sale
Section 32 - Liability of Commissioners; Partition by Sale
Section 33 - Attachments or Liens; Failure to Disclose; Penalties
Section 34 - Unclaimed Proceeds of Sale; Disposition
Section 35 - Trustees; Appointment; Bond
Section 36 - Water Rights; Other Incorporeal Hereditaments; Division
Section 37 - Nonnavigable Natural Streams; Partition of Water