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2017 Massachusetts General Laws
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
TITLE V STATUTES OF FRAUDS AND LIMITATIONS
Chapter 260 LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
- Section 1 Actions requiring commencement within twenty years
- Section 2 Contract actions; actions upon judgments or decrees of courts of record
- Section 2A Tort, contract to recover for personal injuries, and replevin actions
- Section 2B Tort actions arising from improvements to real property
- Section 2C Actions for damages, etc. for physical alteration or destruction of fine art
- Section 2D Actions to recover costs of asbestos related corrective actions
- Section 2E Actions against the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust
- Section 3 Misconduct or negligence of deputies; actions against sheriffs
- Section 3A Claims against commonwealth
- Section 4 Certain tort or contract actions for malpractice, error or mistake
- Section 4A Back wages, actions to recover
- Section 4B Hit and run accidents
- Section 4C Sexual abuse of minors
- Section 4C1/2 Negligent supervision or conduct causing or contributing to the sexual abuse of minor by another person
- Section 4D Civil remedies for victims of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude; damages; time for actions; representation of victim's rights by others
- Section 5 Penalties and forfeitures
- Section 5A Consumer protection actions
- Section 5B Civil rights actions
- Section 6 Mutual and open account current
- Section 7 Minors and incapacitated persons
- Section 8 Citizens of enemy country; suspension of limitation
- Section 9 Nonresident defendant; suspension of limitation
- Section 10 Death of party; effect
- Section 11 Contracts or acts of fiduciaries
- Section 12 Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations
- Section 13 Acknowledgment or new promise; effect
- Section 14 Part payment; effect
- Section 15 Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; effect
- Section 16 Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; judgment
- Section 17 Action not to be dismissed for failure to join barred party defendant
- Section 18 Actions by state; laws applicable
- Section 19 Special limitations
- Section 19A Currency; euro as commercially reasonable substitute and substantial equivalent
- Section 20 Presumption of satisfaction of judgment
- Section 21 Recovery of land
- Section 22 Accrual of right or title to land; limitation
- Section 23 to 27 Repealed, 1979, 402, Sec. 3
- Section 28 Possession of land; requisites
- Section 29 Estates tail; barring remainders and reversions
- Section 30 Estates tail; death of tenant; effect
- Section 31 Actions by commonwealth
- Section 31A Right of entry for condition broken or possibility of reverter; procedure
- Section 32 Dismissal of action or reversal or vacation of judgment; commencement of new action
- Section 33 Obsolete mortgages
- Section 34 Extension of mortgage; acknowledgment that mortgage not satisfied, etc.
- Section 35 Mortgage defined; commencement of proceedings, prerequisites; application of Secs. 33 to 35
- Section 36 Application; computation
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