Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 205 - Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers
Section 24 - Judge as Obligor

Section 24. If a judge of probate is obligor, either as principal or as surety, in a bond given to a former judge of the court, any action authorized by this chapter may be brought upon such bond in the name of the judge mentioned therein or in the name of his executor or administrator, and the register of probate for the county in which such bond was given may authorize an action thereon in like manner and upon the same conditions as may be done in other cases by the court.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations

Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts

Chapter 205 - Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers

Section 1 - Bond of Receiver of Absentee or Guardian

Section 6a - Surety Not Required on Bonds Filed by National Banks

Section 9 - Sureties on Bonds; Requirements

Section 10 - Approval by Judge or Register

Section 11 - Joint Fiduciaries; Joint or Separate Bonds

Section 12 - Joint Executors; Failure to Give Bond; Effect

Section 13 - Fiduciary; License to Sell or Mortgage Realty; Additional Bond

Section 14 - Insufficiency of Sureties; New Bond

Section 15 - Discharge of Sureties; New Bond

Section 16 - Failure to Give New Bond; Effect

Section 17 - Sureties on Prior Bond; Liability

Section 18 - Penal Sum of Bond; Reduction

Section 19 - Woman Fiduciary; Effect of Marriage

Section 19a - Joint Control of Trust Estates; Agreements Between Fiduciaries and Sureties; Authorization

Section 20 - Actions Upon Bonds by Creditors

Section 21 - Creditors; Amount Due Ascertained by Decree of Distribution

Section 22 - Actions Upon Bonds by Next of Kin

Section 23 - Actions Upon Bonds by Person Aggrieved by Maladministration of Fiduciary

Section 24 - Judge as Obligor

Section 25 - Wife of Probate Judge as Obligor

Section 26 - Endorsement of Writ

Section 27 - Obligor; Summoning

Section 28 - Obligor; Failure to Appear; Effect

Section 29 - Actions Upon Bonds Given by Guardians, Conservators, Trustees or Other Fiduciary

Section 30 - Venue for Actions Upon Bonds

Section 31 - Form of Execution

Section 32 - Execution for Use of Particular Person; Procedure

Section 33 - Execution for Undesignated Persons; Procedure

Section 34 - New Breach; Effect

Section 35 - Bond of Guardian or Conservator; Limitation of Action Against Sureties