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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 204 General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, Etc., by Executors, Etc.
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General Provisions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Specific performance of decedent's land contracts - Chapter 204, Section 1
If a person who has entered into a written agreement for the conveyance of real estate or holds real estate which by operation of law...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consent of a deceased person; power of court to decree conveyance - Chapter 204, Section 2
If, under a will, the sale of real estate by a trustee, executor or administrator with the will annexed is dependent upon the consent of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign fiduciaries; license to receive and dispose of personalty - Chapter 204, Section 3
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 28. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Power of Massachusetts fiduciary to transfer personal property to foreign fiduciaries; petition; proceedings; decree; exoneration of Massachusetts fiduciary - Chapter 204, Section 3A
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 28. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vested or contingent interests; power of fiduciaries to release - Chapter 204, Section 4
An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee may, after the notice required upon a petition by him for a license to sell real estate, be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cemetery lots; sale or release - Chapter 204, Section 5
An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee may be authorized by the probate court, after notice to all persons interested, to sell and convey or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgage given under license of court; contents - Chapter 204, Section 6
A mortgage given by an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee under license of court may contain a power of sale, and every such mortgage...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Venue; petitions for sales by foreign fiduciaries - Chapter 204, Section 7
All proceedings in probate courts relative to sales by a foreign executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee shall be in the county where an authenticated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License to sell; duration - Chapter 204, Section 8
No license to sell by an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee shall be in force for more than one year after the granting thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of sales; surplus; disposition - Chapter 204, Section 9
In every sale of the real estate of a deceased person or a ward by an executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, the surplus of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Granting license; objections; costs - Chapter 204, Section 10
If a person appears and objects to the granting of a license to sell real estate and the court finds that either the petition or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons licensed to sell realty; examination - Chapter 204, Section 11
A person authorized to sell land under license of court shall be required, upon petition to the probate court by an heir, creditor, ward or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Church, etc., property; sale or transfer - Chapter 204, Section 12
The supreme judicial court, upon petition of a party interested and after notice, may order the sale or transfer of any real or personal property...
Compromises, Etc.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjustment or compromise; authorization by court - Chapter 204, Section 13
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]The probate court may authorize an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Controversies; power of court to authorize compromise by fiduciaries - Chapter 204, Section 14
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]The supreme judicial court or the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compromise of wills - Chapter 204, Section 15
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]The supreme judicial court or the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contingent interests; protection - Chapter 204, Section 16
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]If the court finds that any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of compromise - Chapter 204, Section 17
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]An award or compromise made in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wards; representation by guardians - Chapter 204, Section 18
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]If a minor or a person...
Irregular and Invalid Sales, Etc., by Executors, Etc.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Irregularities of proceeding; effect - Chapter 204, Section 19
No sale of real estate under license of court, and no title thereunder, shall be avoided for the reason that the deed was not delivered...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Irregularities of proceedings; claim of paramount title - Chapter 204, Section 20
If the validity of a sale is drawn in question by a person claiming adversely to the title of the deceased or of the ward,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Debts; adjudication; finality - Chapter 204, Section 21
If a license is granted by a probate court for a sale or mortgage of real estate to pay the debts and charges of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty sold by fiduciaries; limitation of action or entry - Chapter 204, Section 22
No action for the recovery of property sold by an executor or administrator under chapter two hundred and two shall be maintained by an heir...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Void acts of fiduciaries; confirmation or setting aside - Chapter 204, Section 23
If an act or proceeding of a person acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or in any other fiduciary capacity under an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Doubtful acts of fiduciaries - Chapter 204, Section 24
If the authority or validity of an act or proceeding of the probate court or of a person acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Irregularly appointed fiduciary; liability to account - Chapter 204, Section 25
An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court whose appointment is invalid by reason of an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of appointment or sale; failure of proof; remedy - Chapter 204, Section 26
If an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court, or a person employed by him to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release; powers - Chapter 204, Section 27
A power of appointment, whether or not coupled with an interest, and whether or not existing at the time this section takes effect, and whether...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of release - Chapter 204, Section 28
A power releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, may be released, wholly or partially, by the delivery of a written release executed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect and scope of release - Chapter 204, Section 29
A release executed by the donee of a power releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, and delivered or filed in accordance with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exercise of power by several persons; release by one; effect - Chapter 204, Section 30
If a power of appointment releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, is or may be exercisable by two or more persons in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Word "release" defined - Chapter 204, Section 31
The word “release”, as used in sections twenty-eight to thirty, inclusive, shall include (1) an instrument wherein the person who executes it in substance states...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of alienation or anticipation provisions; effect on release - Chapter 204, Section 32
Release of a power of appointment otherwise releasable shall not be prevented merely by provisions in restraint of alienation or anticipation contained in the instrument...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 204, Section 33
Sections twenty-seven to thirty-two, inclusive, shall so far as possible be deemed to be declaratory of the common law of this commonwealth. Said sections shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 573, Sec. 3 - Chapter 204, Section 34
Chapter 204: Section 34. Repealed, 1975, 573, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release or disclaimer; construction - Chapter 204, Section 35
Nothing in sections twenty-seven to thirty-four, inclusive, shall prevent the release in any lawful manner of any releasable power of appointment or the disclaimer in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Severability - Chapter 204, Section 36
If any of the provisions in sections twenty-seven to thirty-five, inclusive, shall be held invalid or unconstitutional in relation to any of the applications thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Resignation of guardian on behalf of ward - Chapter 204, Section 37
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2009. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 30. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]If an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator,...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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