2012 Massachusetts General Laws
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS(Chapters 183 through 210)
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 196 ALLOWANCES TO WIDOWS AND CHILDREN, AND ADVANCEMENTS
Section 5 Gifts or grants considered as advancements

[ Text of section effective until March 31, 2012. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 15. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44 as amended by 2010, 409, Sec. 23 and 2011, 224.]

Section 5. Gifts and grants shall be held to have been made as advancements, if they are expressed in the gift or grant to be so made, or if charged in writing as such by the intestate, or acknowledged in writing as such by the party receiving them.