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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 241. — PARTITION OF LAND.
- Section 1. Persons entitled to partition.
- Section 2. Jurisdiction; probate courts.
- Section 3. Jurisdiction within two or more counties.
- Section 4. Extent of land partitioned.
- Section 5. Division of shares.
- Section 6. Form and contents of petition; interveners.
- Section 7. Notice; filing; registered land.
- Section 8. Notice given by citation; contents; publication; service.
- Section 9. Persons not personally served; absent — incompetent or undetermined parties.
- Section 10. Interlocutory decree; redemption.
- Section 11. Dispute as to ownership of share.
- Section 12. Commissioners; appointment; duties.
- Section 13. Land in different counties.
- Section 14. Indivisible land; partition.
- Section 15. Money awards; payment or security.
- Section 16. Return of commissioners; confirmation; amendments; final decrees; recording.
- Section 17. Examination of title — investigations, etc.; omitted parties; improperdescriptions.
- Section 18. Conclusiveness of partition.
- Section 19. Persons not named in petition claiming assigned shares; partitions by sale.
- Section 20. Stranger claiming as co-tenant; remedies.
- Section 21. Stranger claiming paramount title.
- Section 22. Costs.
- Section 23. Improvements; compensation.
- Section 24. Improvements made before new partition; compensation.
- Section 25. Equity jurisdiction.
- Section 26. Death of party named in petition.
- Section 27. Persons evicted.
- Section 28. Mortgagee — etc., of co-tenant.
- Section 29. Improvements made by person evicted; compensation.
- Section 30. Trusteeship — etc.; effect on partition.
- Section 31. Partition by sale.
- Section 32. Liability of commissioners; partition by sale.
- Section 33. Attachments or liens; failure to disclose; penalties.
- Section 34. Unclaimed proceeds of sale; disposition.
- Section 35. Trustees; appointment; bond.
- Section 36. Water rights; other incorporeal hereditaments; division.
- Section 37. Nonnavigable natural streams; partition of water.
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