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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 227. — PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ABSENT DEFENDANTS ANDUPON INSUFFICIENT SERVICE.
- Section 1. Personal actions against non-residents.
- Section 2. Counterclaims.
- Section 3 — 4. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 56.
- Section 5. Agents for service of process; duty to appoint by certain individuals;penalty.
- Section 5A. Appointment of city or town clerk as agent for service of process bycertain non-residents; certificate; notice of action; filing.
- Section 6. Attachment of realty; dismissal of action upon failure of notice.
- Section 7. Notice.
- Section 8. Default.
- Section 9. Bond.
- Section 10. Repealed — 1975, 377, Sec. 60.
- Section 11. Execution levied on land.
- Section 12. Judgment in real actions.
- Section 13. Tort actions.
- Section 14. Contract actions.
- Section 15. Prosecution against persons served; new action.
- Section 16. Real actions; absence of one of several defendants.
- Section 17. Mixed actions.
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