2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 197 PAYMENT OF DEBTS, LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES
Section 19 Legacies; actions to recover

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 16. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 19. A legatee may recover his legacy and enforce all rights in respect to the same by proceedings in equity in the probate court in which the will was proved. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the time within which such proceedings may be brought except that the real estate of the testator shall not be liable to be sold for the payment of a legacy by the executor or other representative of the estate either under a power in the will or under license or order of court in, or as a result of, such a proceeding unless it is filed in the probate court within six years from the testator’s death. No action at law shall be brought against the estate of the testator for such recovery.