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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 255 Mortgages, Conditional Sales and Pledges of Personal Property, and Liens Thereon.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 1-7C
Chapter 255: Section 1 to 7C. Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interest of landlord in crops; subordination of liens; assignment or agreement concerning - Chapter 255, Section 7D
No assignment of, or agreement affecting, the rights or interest of a landlord or owner of real property, occupied by a tenant or person planting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 7E-11
Chapter 255: Section 7E to 11. Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4 - Chapter 255, Section 12-12B
Chapter 255: Section 12 to 12B. Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consumer note designation; violations; penalty; construction of section - Chapter 255, Section 12C
If any contract for sale of consumer goods on credit entered into in the commonwealth between a retail seller and a retail buyer requires or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4 - Chapter 255, Section 12D
Chapter 255: Section 12D. Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 733, Sec. 3 - Chapter 255, Section 12E
Chapter 255: Section 12E. Repealed, 1981, 733, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creditors in consumer loan transactions; defenses of borrower - Chapter 255, Section 12F
As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Organization,” a corporation, government or governmental subdivision...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Credit life or accident and health or involuntary unemployment insurance charges; prepayment; refunds; death benefits; disclosure statements; violations - Chapter 255, Section 12G
Except as otherwise provided in section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-five B, section fourteen A of chapter two hundred and fifty-five C and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; delinquency or late charge; annual fee - Chapter 255, Section 12H
As used in this section the following words, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— “Charge card”, any card, plate, coupon book,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of residence insulated with urea formaldehyde foam; testing - Chapter 255, Section 12I
Chapter 255: Section 12I. Repealed, 2002, 248
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4 - Chapter 255, Section 13
Chapter 255: Section 13. Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 13A
Chapter 255: Section 13A. Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - 13C. Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4 - Chapter 255, Section 13B
Chapter 255: Section 13B, 13C. Repealed 1966, 284, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 13D-13F
Chapter 255: Section 13D to 13F. Repealed 1957, 765, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4 - Chapter 255, Section 13G
Chapter 255: Section 13G. Repealed, 1966, 284, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 13H
Chapter 255: Section 13H. Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Default under consumer credit transactions; enforcement; notice; curing of default; deficiency judgment - Chapter 255, Section 13I
(a) In any consumer credit transaction involving a loan that is secured by a non-possessory security interest in consumer goods a provision relating to default...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repossession of collateral under a consumer credit transaction; hearing; redemption; disposition; deficiency; insurance proceeds; determination of value - Chapter 255, Section 13J
(a) Subject to the provisions of this section a secured creditor under a consumer credit transaction may take possession of collateral. In taking possession the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal service contracts between certain schools and students; termination notice provisions required; applicability; violations; penalties - Chapter 255, Section 13K
Every written contract between a trade school, business school, vocational school, technical school, correspondence school, dance studio, professional or proprietary school, except a proprietary school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prepayment; refund of charges - Chapter 255, Section 13L
Except as otherwise provided in section one hundred of chapter one hundred and forty, section sixteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-five B, section nineteen...
Liens on Vessels.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liens on vessels; general provisions - Chapter 255, Section 14
If by virtue of a contract, express or implied, with the owners of a vessel or with the agents, contractors or sub-contractors of such owners,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Storage and incidental expenses - Chapter 255, Section 14A
If by virtue of a contract, express or implied, with the owners of a vessel of not more than forty feet in length, or with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement; effect of filing; fees - Chapter 255, Section 15
Such lien shall be dissolved unless the person claiming it within thirty days after the vessel departs from the port at which she was when...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inaccuracies of description; effect on lien - Chapter 255, Section 16
A place in which the vessel is wholly or partly constructed shall be held to be the port where she was when the debt was...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement; procedure - Chapter 255, Section 17
[ First paragraph effective until May 6, 2008. For text effective May 6, 2008, see below.]A person having such lien, unless the contract described in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 19. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 328 - Chapter 255, Section 18
Chapter 255: Section 18, 19. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 328
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of sale; distribution - Chapter 255, Section 20
[ Text of section effective until May 6, 2008. For text effective May 6, 2008, see below.]If money is due to more than one person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment by owner of vessel - Chapter 255, Section 21
If a contractor or sub-contractor unreasonably neglects or refuses to pay for labor procured by him to be performed in constructing, repairing or launching a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign vessels; effect of this chapter - Chapter 255, Section 22
The eight preceding sections shall not affect any lien on foreign vessels which exists independent of statute.
Other Liens.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 284, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 23
Chapter 255: Section 23. Repealed, 1977, 284, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic animals; liens for care and custody - Chapter 255, Section 24
Persons having proper charges due them for pasturing, boarding or keeping horses or other domestic animals which are brought to their premises or placed in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Garage keepers; effect of liens on motor vehicles obtained by fraud, etc.; liens for charges paid by insurance company - Chapter 255, Section 25
Persons maintaining public garages for the storage and care of motor vehicles brought to their premises or placed in their care by or with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Manufactured housing community operators - Chapter 255, Section 25A
Persons maintaining manufactured housing communities for the rental of sites to be occupied by manufactured homes and vehicles, for the furnishing of facilities in connection...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement - Chapter 255, Section 26
A person who has a lien, which is not described in sections fourteen to twenty-two, inclusive, or in chapter two hundred and fifty-four, for money...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 28. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 151 - Chapter 255, Section 27
Chapter 255: Section 27, 28. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 151
- Massachusetts General Laws - Order for sale - Chapter 255, Section 29
If, upon a default or a trial it is found that a lien exists upon the property and that the property ought to be sold...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 123 - Chapter 255, Section 30
Chapter 255: Section 30. Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 123
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effects of secs. 24—29 - Chapter 255, Section 31
Sections twenty-four to twenty-nine, inclusive, shall not restrict the right of a person who has a lien upon property to hold or dispose of it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Spinners and others; work and materials; priority of lien - Chapter 255, Section 31A
A lien on account of work, labor and materials furnished in the spinning, throwing, manufacturing, bleaching, mercerizing, dyeing, printing, finishing or otherwise processing of cotton,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Spinners and others; enforcement - Chapter 255, Section 31B
If any part of the amount for which goods are held under said lien remains unpaid for a period of ten days after the earliest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jewelers - Chapter 255, Section 31C
A person engaged in performing work upon any watch, clock, silverware or jewelry for a price shall have a lien upon such watch, clock, silverware...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Articles of clothing or household goods; cleaning or storing - Chapter 255, Section 31D
Any person engaged in cleaning, pressing, glazing, washing, dyeing or performing similar work on articles of clothing or household goods, or, with or without furnishing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aircraft facilities; aircraft repairs - Chapter 255, Section 31E
Persons, including but not limited to the commonwealth and any department, commission, division, agency, or branch thereof, maintaining public landing, parking, storage, and tie-down facilities...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Paintings, photographs and other personal property - Chapter 255, Section 31F
Any person engaged in performing work upon any painting, photograph or other piece of personal property for a price shall have a lien upon such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of liens on personalty; manner - Chapter 255, Section 32
Liens claimed by public warehousemen and others upon personal property for storage thereof, by innkeepers, boarding house keepers and lodging house keepers upon the baggage...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of liens on personalty; procedure - Chapter 255, Section 33
A person who owns or has an interest in any personal property upon which such a lien has been claimed may, at any time after...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Termination of certain liens of bailees - Chapter 255, Section 34
The lien of a bailee of personal property exceeding twenty dollars in value to secure a claim for which he has a lien, shall, if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Priority between certain liens - Chapter 255, Section 35
As against a conditional vendor or lessor, or person claiming under him, the lien of a bailee of the vendee or lessee or person claiming...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of personalty held under lien - Chapter 255, Section 36
If personal property exceeding twenty dollars in value is detained from the owner, or person otherwise entitled to its possession, under the claim of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; hearing on sufficiency of sureties - Chapter 255, Section 37
Before the officer serving the writ delivers the goods to the plaintiff he shall take from the plaintiff, or from a person acting in his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trial of claim - Chapter 255, Section 38
If the court finds that the defendant has a lien on the property but that the defendant is not otherwise entitled to possession of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs - Chapter 255, Section 39
In actions of replevin brought under section thirty-six, costs shall be taxed against the plaintiff in cases where the court decides that the claim of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles; sale for storage; procedure - Chapter 255, Section 39A
Any motor vehicle removed from the scene of an accident and placed for storage in the care of a garage, which in this section shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 674 - Chapter 255, Section 39B
Chapter 255: Section 39B. Repealed, 1983, 674
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 255, Section 40-47
Chapter 255: Section 40 to 47. Repealed 1957, 765, Sec. 2
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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