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PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
TITLE II ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS THEREIN
CHAPTER 223 COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS, SERVICE OF PROCESS
- Section 1, 22 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
- Section 1 Transitory actions; general provisions
- Section 2 Transitory actions; district courts
- Section 2A Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction
- Section 2B Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court
- Section 2C Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer
- Section 3 Transitory actions; enumeration
- Section 4 Replevin actions
- Section 5 Actions by the commonwealth
- Section 6 Counties; actions by or against
- Section 7 Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions
- Section 8 Corporations; actions by or against
- Section 8A Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers
- Section 9 Transitory actions by or against city of Boston
- Section 10 Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk
- Section 11 Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against
- Section 12 Land title actions
- Section 13 Change of venue
- Section 14 Forfeitures
- Section 15 Erroneous venue; procedure
- Section 16 to 18 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24
- Section 19 Unknown defendant; procedure
- Section 19A Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86
- Section 20 Process; issuance
- Section 23 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
- Section 24 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87
- Section 25 to 30 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26
- Section 31 Summons; leaving at last known address, etc.
- Section 31A Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting
- Section 32 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28
- Section 33 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91
- Section 34 Further notice to absent defendant
- Section 35 Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return
- Section 36 Repealed, 1975, Sec. 377, Sec. 28
- Section 37 Corporations; persons authorized to be served
- Section 38 Foreign corporations
- Section 39 Foreign insurance company; manner of service
- Section 39A Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable
- Section 39B Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers
- Section 40 Voluntary associations, service on
- Section 41 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93
- Section 42 Property subject to attachment
- Section 42A Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment
- Section 43 Cars and vessels; attachment
- Section 44 Ships or vessels; conditions precedent
- Section 44A Motor vehicles; conditions precedent
- Section 45 Property of newspaper offices
- Section 45A Attaching officer; powers to require security
- Section 46 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33
- Section 47 Successive attachments on different writs
- Section 48 Keeper; appointment; costs
- Section 49 Attached personalty; keeping on owner’s premises
- Section 50 Bulky goods
- Section 51 Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec. 44
- Section 52 Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale
- Section 53 Further attachment of replevied property
- Section 54 Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value
- Section 55 Death or removal of first attaching officer
- Section 56 Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment
- Section 57 Replevied property; mode of attaching
- Section 58 Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment
- Section 59 Duration of attachment after judgment
- Section 60, 61 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103
- Section 62 General provisions
- Section 63 Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds
- Section 64 Attaching officer; duty
- Section 65 Register; duty; fees
- Section 66 Attachment; time of taking effect
- Section 67 Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions
- Section 68 Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register
- Section 69 Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers
- Section 70 Encumbered realty
- Section 71 Prohibited
- Section 72 Limitations
- Section 73 Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession
- Section 74 Mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract
- Section 75 Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account
- Section 76 Excessive demands; penalty
- Section 77 Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors
- Section 78 Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price
- Section 79 Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination
- Section 80 Amount due; determination
- Section 81 Validity of mortgage; determination
- Section 82 Creditor to retain amount paid by him
- Section 83 Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment
- Section 83A Application of Secs. 74 to 83
- Section 84 Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service
- Section 85, 86 Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37
- Section 86A Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment
- Section 87 General provisions
- Section 88 Perishable property; appraisal and sale
- Section 89 Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings
- Section 90 Absent defendant; notice
- Section 91 Appraisers; manner of appointment
- Section 92 Perishable property; sale after appraisal
- Section 93 Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition
- Section 94 Bond; duty to return with writs
- Section 95 Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors
- Section 96 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111
- Section 97 Action on bond; distribution of money by court
- Section 98 Action on bond; protection of prior attachments
- Section 99 Action on bond; right of creditor not joining
- Section 100 Action on bond; limitation
- Section 101 Creditors; payment and satisfaction
- Section 102 Appraisal at request of part owner
- Section 103 Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent
- Section 104 Pledge of property
- Section 105 Restoration
- Section 106 Dissolution of prior attachment: application
- Section 107 Affidavit and bond
- Section 108 Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court
- Section 109 Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings
- Section 110 Dissolution of prior attachment; defences
- Section 111 Costs; damages
- Section 112 Proceeding upon appeal
- Section 113 Judgment; force and effect
- Section 113A Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments
- Section 114 Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge
- Section 114A Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law
- Section 115 Dissolution of attachment upon exhaustion of appellate review
- Section 115A Failure of service upon defendant
- Section 115B Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40
- Section 116 Death of defendant
- Section 117 Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds
- Section 118 Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him
- Section 119 Counterclaim
- Section 120 Dissolution of attachment upon giving of bond
- Section 121 Bond; hearing before approval
- Section 122 Debtor’s fees and costs
- Section 123 Debtor’s bond; filing
- Section 124 Release of sureties of insolvent debtor
- Section 125 Bond to pay value of property
- Section 126 Fees
- Section 127 Fraudulently conveyed realty
- Section 128 Deposit
- Section 129 Individual property of one defendant
- Section 129A Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property
- Section 130 Dissolution of attachment upon appointment of receiver
- Section 131 Discharge of receiver
- Section 132 Dissolution of attachment of real estate upon release by plaintiff
- Section 133 Persons authorized; approval
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