Massachusetts CHAPTER 186. — ESTATES FOR YEARS AND AT WILL.
- Chapter 186 — Section 1. Long term interests; treatment as freeholder.
- Chapter 186 — Section 2. Assignment of dower.
- Chapter 186 — Section 3. Tenancy at sufferance; liability for rent.
- Chapter 186 — Section 4. Liability of tenant for rent for proportion of land in possession.
- Chapter 186 — Section 5. Action to recover rent; evidence.
- Chapter 186 — Section 6. Survival of action.
- Chapter 186 — Section 7. Remedies of landlords.
- Chapter 186 — Section 8. Recovery of rent accruing before determination of lease.
- Chapter 186 — Section 9. Recovery of rent paid in advance.
- Chapter 186 — Section 10. Rent as a necessary.
- Chapter 186 — Section 11. Determination of lease for nonpayment of rent.
- Chapter 186 — Section 11A. Termination of lease for nonpayment of rent.
- Chapter 186 — Section 12. Notice to determine estate at will.
- Chapter 186 — Section 13. Recovery of possession after termination of tenancy at will.
- Chapter 186 — Section 14. Wrongful acts of lessor or landlord of buildings or premises occupied fordwelling or residential purposes; criminal penalties; civil remedies;jurisdiction; sections applicable to acts of reprisal, waiver in leases orrental agreements prohibited.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15. Provisions of lease or rental agreement pertaining to non-liability oflandlord.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15A. Agreement to waive notices; effect upon lease.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15B. Entrance of premises prior to termination of lease; payments;receipts; interest; records; security deposits.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15C. Residential real estate, lease payments based on real estate tax increases.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15D. Delivery of copy of lease to lessee; penalty; waiver prohibited.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15E. Action against property owner by lessee sustaining injury caused by defectin common area; certain defense barred, waiver in lease or other rentalagreement prohibited.
- Chapter 186 — Section 15F. Certain provisions of lease or rental agreement relating to residentialreal property as to litigation and liability of landlord deemed void;remedies of tenant.
- Chapter 186 — Section 16. Provisions of lease or rental agreement pertaining to children.
- Chapter 186 — Section 17. Occupancy constituting tenancy at will; termination.
- Chapter 186 — Section 18. Reprisal for reporting violations of law or for tenant's unionactivity;damages and costs; notice of termination, presumption; waiver in leases orother rental agreements prohibited.
- Chapter 186 — Section 19. Notice to landlord of unsafe condition; tort actions for injuriesresulting from uncorrected condition.
- Chapter 186 — Section 20. Attorneys' fees in certain residential landlord-tenant actions.
- Chapter 186 — Section 21. Disclosure of insurance information by lessor; violations; waiver.
- Chapter 186: Section 22. Definitions; submeter installation; testing; water use charges; public housing development exemption