Massachusetts Code — 223
Browse 125 sections in division 223 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 1. Transitory actions; general provisions
- § 2. Transitory actions; district courts
- § 2A. Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction
- § 2B. Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court
- § 2C. Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer
- § 3. Transitory actions; enumeration
- § 4. Replevin actions
- § 5. Actions by the commonwealth
- § 6. Counties; actions by or against
- § 7. Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions
- § 8. Corporations; actions by or against
- § 8A. Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers
- § 9. Transitory actions by or against city of Boston
- § 10. Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk
- § 11. Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against
- § 12. Land title actions
- § 13. Change of venue
- § 14. Forfeitures
- § 15. Erroneous venue; procedure
- § 19. Unknown defendant; procedure
- § 20. Process; issuance
- § 31. Summons; leaving at last known address, etc.
- § 31A. Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting
- § 34. Further notice to absent defendant
- § 35. Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return
- § 37. Corporations; persons authorized to be served
- § 38. Foreign corporations
- § 39. Foreign insurance company; manner of service
- § 39A. Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable
- § 39B. Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers
- § 40. Voluntary associations, service on
- § 42. Property subject to attachment
- § 42A. Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment
- § 43. Cars and vessels; attachment
- § 44. Ships or vessels; conditions precedent
- § 44A. Motor vehicles; conditions precedent
- § 45. Property of newspaper offices
- § 45A. Attaching officer; powers to require security
- § 47. Successive attachments on different writs
- § 48. Keeper; appointment; costs
- § 49. Attached personalty; keeping on owner's premises
- § 50. Bulky goods
- § 52. Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale
- § 53. Further attachment of replevied property
- § 54. Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value
- § 55. Death or removal of first attaching officer
- § 56. Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment
- § 57. Replevied property; mode of attaching
- § 58. Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment
- § 59. Duration of attachment after judgment
- § 62. General provisions
- § 63. Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds
- § 64. Attaching officer; duty
- § 65. Register; duty; fees
- § 66. Attachment; time of taking effect
- § 67. Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions
- § 68. Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register
- § 69. Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers
- § 70. Encumbered realty
- § 71. Attachment of shares of stock prohibited
- § 72. Attachment of property in possession of bailee; limitation
- § 73. Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession
- § 74. Mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract
- § 75. Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account
- § 76. Excessive demands; penalty
- § 77. Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors
- § 78. Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price
- § 79. Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination
- § 80. Amount due; determination
- § 81. Validity of mortgage; determination
- § 82. Creditor to retain amount paid by him
- § 83. Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment
- § 83A. Application of Secs. 74 to 83
- § 84. Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service
- § 86A. Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment
- § 87. Sale of attached personal property
- § 88. Perishable property; appraisal and sale
- § 89. Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings
- § 90. Absent defendant; notice
- § 91. Appraisers; manner of appointment
- § 92. Perishable property; sale after appraisal
- § 93. Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition
- § 94. Bond; duty to return with writs
- § 95. Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors
- § 97. Action on bond; distribution of money by court
- § 98. Action on bond; protection of prior attachments
- § 99. Action on bond; right of creditor not joining
- § 100. Action on bond; limitation
- § 101. Creditors; payment and satisfaction
- § 102. Appraisal at request of part owner
- § 103. Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent
- § 104. Pledge of property
- § 105. Restoration
- § 106. Dissolution of prior attachment: application
- § 107. Affidavit and bond
- § 108. Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court
- § 109. Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings
- § 110. Dissolution of prior attachment; defences
- § 111. Costs; damages
- § 112. Proceeding upon appeal
- § 113. Judgment; force and effect
- § 113A. Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments
- § 114. Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge
- § 114A. Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law
- § 115. Dissolution of attachment upon exhaustion of appellate review
- § 115A. Failure of service upon defendant
- § 116. Death of defendant
- § 117. Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds
- § 118. Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him
- § 119. Counterclaim
- § 120. Dissolution of attachment upon giving of bond
- § 121. Bond; hearing before approval
- § 122. Debtor's fees and costs
- § 123. Debtor's bond; filing
- § 124. Release of sureties of insolvent debtor
- § 125. Bond to pay value of property
- § 126. Fees
- § 127. Fraudulently conveyed realty
- § 128. Deposit
- § 129. Individual property of one defendant
- § 129A. Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property
- § 130. Dissolution of attachment upon appointment of receiver
- § 131. Discharge of receiver
- § 132. Dissolution of attachment of real estate upon release by plaintiff
- § 133. Persons authorized; approval