STATE STATUTES & CODES

MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES

CHAPTER 223 COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS, SERVICE OF PROCESS

• Section 1, 22 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
• Section 1 Transitory actions; general provisions
• Section 2 Transitory actions; district courts
• Section 2A Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction
• Section 2B Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court
• Section 2C Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer
• Section 3 Transitory actions; enumeration
• Section 4 Replevin actions
• Section 5 Actions by the commonwealth
• Section 6 Counties; actions by or against
• Section 7 Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions
• Section 8 Corporations; actions by or against
• Section 8A Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers
• Section 9 Transitory actions by or against city of Boston
• Section 10 Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk
• Section 11 Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against
• Section 12 Land title actions
• Section 13 Change of venue
• Section 14 Forfeitures
• Section 15 Erroneous venue; procedure
• Section 16 to 18 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24
• Section 19 Unknown defendant; procedure
• Section 19A Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86
• Section 20 Process; issuance
• Section 23 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
• Section 24 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
• Section 25 to 30 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
• Section 31 Summons; leaving at last known address, etc.
• Section 31A Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting
• Section 32 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28
• Section 33 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91
• Section 34 Further notice to absent defendant
• Section 35 Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return
• Section 36 Repealed, 1975, Sec. 377, Sec. 28
• Section 37 Corporations; persons authorized to be served
• Section 38 Foreign corporations
• Section 39 Foreign insurance company; manner of service
• Section 39A Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable
• Section 39B Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers
• Section 40 Voluntary associations, service on
• Section 41 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93
• Section 42 Property subject to attachment
• Section 42A Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment
• Section 43 Cars and vessels; attachment
• Section 44 Ships or vessels; conditions precedent
• Section 44A Motor vehicles; conditions precedent
• Section 45 Property of newspaper offices
• Section 45A Attaching officer; powers to require security
• Section 46 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33
• Section 47 Successive attachments on different writs
• Section 48 Keeper; appointment; costs
• Section 49 Attached personalty; keeping on owner’s premises
• Section 50 Bulky goods
• Section 51 Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec. 44
• Section 52 Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale
• Section 53 Further attachment of replevied property
• Section 54 Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value
• Section 55 Death or removal of first attaching officer
• Section 56 Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment
• Section 57 Replevied property; mode of attaching
• Section 58 Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment
• Section 59 Duration of attachment after judgment
• Section 60, 61 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103
• Section 62 General provisions
• Section 63 Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds
• Section 64 Attaching officer; duty
• Section 65 Register; duty; fees
• Section 66 Attachment; time of taking effect
• Section 67 Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions
• Section 68 Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register
• Section 69 Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers
• Section 70 Encumbered realty
• Section 71 Prohibited
• Section 72 Limitations
• Section 73 Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession
• Section 74 Mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract
• Section 75 Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account
• Section 76 Excessive demands; penalty
• Section 77 Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors
• Section 78 Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price
• Section 79 Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination
• Section 80 Amount due; determination
• Section 81 Validity of mortgage; determination
• Section 82 Creditor to retain amount paid by him
• Section 83 Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment
• Section 83A Application of Secs. 74 to 83
• Section 84 Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service
• Section 85, 86 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37
• Section 86A Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment
• Section 87 General provisions
• Section 88 Perishable property; appraisal and sale
• Section 89 Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings
• Section 90 Absent defendant; notice
• Section 91 Appraisers; manner of appointment
• Section 92 Perishable property; sale after appraisal
• Section 93 Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition
• Section 94 Bond; duty to return with writs
• Section 95 Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors
• Section 96 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111
• Section 97 Action on bond; distribution of money by court
• Section 98 Action on bond; protection of prior attachments
• Section 99 Action on bond; right of creditor not joining
• Section 100 Action on bond; limitation
• Section 101 Creditors; payment and satisfaction
• Section 102 Appraisal at request of part owner
• Section 103 Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent
• Section 104 Pledge of property
• Section 105 Restoration
• Section 106 Dissolution of prior attachment: application
• Section 107 Affidavit and bond
• Section 108 Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court
• Section 109 Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings
• Section 110 Dissolution of prior attachment; defences
• Section 111 Costs; damages
• Section 112 Proceeding upon appeal
• Section 113 Judgment; force and effect
• Section 113A Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments
• Section 114 Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge
• Section 114A Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law
• Section 115 Dissolution of attachment upon exhaustion of appellate review
• Section 115A Failure of service upon defendant
• Section 115B Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40
• Section 116 Death of defendant
• Section 117 Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds
• Section 118 Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him
• Section 119 Counterclaim
• Section 120 Dissolution of attachment upon giving of bond
• Section 121 Bond; hearing before approval
• Section 122 Debtor’s fees and costs
• Section 123 Debtor’s bond; filing
• Section 124 Release of sureties of insolvent debtor
• Section 125 Bond to pay value of property
• Section 126 Fees
• Section 127 Fraudulently conveyed realty
• Section 128 Deposit
• Section 129 Individual property of one defendant
• Section 129A Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property
• Section 130 Dissolution of attachment upon appointment of receiver
• Section 131 Discharge of receiver
• Section 132 Dissolution of attachment of real estate upon release by plaintiff
• Section 133 Persons authorized; approval

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