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 198 INSOLVENT ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS
Section 16 Late entry of appeal; effect
[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]
Section 16. If a person whose claim has been disallowed in whole or in part by the commissioners, or if the administrator of the estate or the executor of the will of the deceased, or if an heir, legatee, devisee or creditor who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim by them, omits, for cause other than his own neglect, to claim or prosecute his appeal as before provided, the superior court in any county may, upon his petition filed within two years after the return of the commissioners and within four years after the date of the administration bond, allow him upon terms to enter and prosecute his appeal.
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