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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 237. — WRITS OF ENTRY.
TITLE III. — REMEDIES RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.
- Section 1. Estates recoverable.
- Section 2. Action to recover freehold estates against commonwealth.
- Section 3. Form of declaration.
- Section 4. Actual entry; seisin; proof; right of entry.
- Section 5. Manner of prosecuting action.
- Section 6. Disseisors.
- Section 7. Actual ouster; effect.
- Section 8. Joint tenants; tenants in common; actions.
- Section 9. Laws and rules governing.
- Section 10. Pleas in answer.
- Section 11. Parts or portions recoverable.
- Section 12. Rents; profits; destruction or waste.
- Section 13. Measure of damages.
- Section 14. Use of improvements not element of damages.
- Section 15. Limitation of defendant's liability.
- Section 16. Improvements.
- Section 17. Possession under supposedly good title; effect.
- Section 18. Counterclaim.
- Section 19. Repealed — 1973, 1114, Sec. 228.
- Section 20. Limitation of allowances.
- Section 21. Court assessments; postponements.
- Section 22. Jury assessments; postponements.
- Section 23. Resumption of procedure for assessment by jury.
- Section 24. Waiver of jury trial.
- Section 25. Assessment by assessors.
- Section 26. Judgments to both parties.
- Section 27. Excess of improvements over rents and profits; effect.
- Section 28. Payment of balance due defendant.
- Section 29. Writ of seisin before judgment.
- Section 30. Collection of balance due defendant.
- Section 31. Valuation without considering improvements.
- Section 32. Relinquishment of estate; recording election.
- Section 33. Relinquishment of estate; effect; payments by defendant.
- Section 34. Nonpayment by defendant; effect.
- Section 35. Failure of title to relinquished land; remedies; notice.
- Section 36. Effect on mode of payment.
- Section 37. Writ of seisin.
- Section 38. Recovery by life tenant from remainderman — etc.
- Section 39. Amount due from remainderman; determination.
- Section 40. Limitation on amount recoverable.
- Section 41. Time for bringing action; limitation.
- Section 42. Recording execution for possession and return.
- Section 43. Actions for mesne profits or damage to land.
- Section 44. Actions by mortgagees.
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