General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 242 Waste and Trespass

• Massachusetts General Laws - Waste; persons entitled to maintain; jury trial - Chapter 242, Section 1
  If a tenant in dower, by the curtesy, for life or for years commits or suffers waste on the land so held, the person having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions of tort in nature of waste; persons entitled to maintain - Chapter 242, Section 2
  A person having the next immediate estate of inheritance, or a remainder or reversion in fee simple or fee tail after an intervening life estate,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions in tort in nature of waste; when maintainable against representatives - Chapter 242, Section 3
  If such action in tort was commenced in the lifetime of the tenant, it may be prosecuted against his executor or administrator or it may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Triple damages for waste; liability of co-tenant - Chapter 242, Section 4
  A joint tenant or tenant in common of undivided land who cuts down, destroys or carries away trees, timber, wood or underwood standing or lying...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions for triple damages - Chapter 242, Section 5
  Such damages may be recovered in tort by one or more of the other co-tenants, without naming any one except the plaintiff, one half to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Triple damages for waste during pendency of action for recovery of land - Chapter 242, Section 6
  If, during the pendency of an action for the recovery of land, the tenant or person in possession, with knowledge thereof, commits waste, the demandant,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Willful trespass to trees, etc.; damages - Chapter 242, Section 7
  A person who without license willfully cuts down, carries away, girdles or otherwise destroys trees, timber, wood or underwood on the land of another shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agricultural or horticultural land; theft or destruction; treble damages - Chapter 242, Section 7A
  Any person who, without permission, willfully enters the agricultural or horticultural land of another, including, but not limited to, an orchard, garden, nursery, cranberry bog,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damage by off-highway or recreational vehicle to field crops or agricultural property; treble damages; definitions - Chapter 242, Section 7B
  (a) Any person operating an off-highway or recreational vehicle who damages or destroys a field crop product and agricultural property situated on the land of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Involuntary trespass; tender of damages - Chapter 242, Section 8
  A trespasser, if the trespass was casual and involuntary, may, before an action is commenced, tender the damages and, upon action brought, disclaim title and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining waste; jurisdiction; bond - Chapter 242, Section 9
  If a person whose land is attached commits waste thereon or threatens or prepares so to do or if a real action is brought to...

Last modified: September 11, 2015