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Massachusetts General Laws - Eminent Domain Takings and Betterment Assessments by Judicial Proceedings - Chapter 80aLegal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > Eminent Domain Takings and Betterment Assessments by Judicial Proceedings > Massachusetts General Laws - Eminent Domain Takings and Betterment Assessments by Judicial Proceedings - Chapter 80a Sponsored Links Authorization . Section 1. A board of officers, hereinafter called the board, upon whom authority to take real estate by eminent domain on behalf of ...
Order of intention; contents . Section 2. The board, having first complied with all the preliminary requirements prescribed by law, shall adopt an order of ...
Order of intention; additional provisions; notice of adoption . Section 3. The order shall contain an estimate of all damages sustained by every person in ...
Petition to take property . Section 4. Within ten days from the recording of such order, plan and estimate, the board shall cause to be ...
Answer . Section 5. Any of said respondents, and any other person claiming an interest in any of the land to be taken, damaged or ...
Default judgments; appointment of guardians . Section 6. The court shall, on motion of the petitioner, enter a default against all persons served with process ...
Hearing; judgment . Section 7. If any person in his answer denies the right of the petitioner to make the improvement or to take or ...
Arbitration of disputes; appointment of commissioners . Section 8. If the court shall enter an order establishing the right of the petitioner to take the ...
Redetermination of damages; procedure . Section 9. Any person aggrieved by the determination of the commissioners with respect to his compensation or damages may have ...
Final adjudication . Section 10. If the verdict of the jury as finally established shall differ from the award of the commissioners with respect to ...
Abandonment or discontinuance of proceedings . Section 11. The board may at any time before final judgment of condemnation abandon the proposed improvement and discontinue ...
Transfer of property; interest transferred; payment of compensation . Section 12. The taking shall become absolute and the right of the body politic to the ...
Taxation of costs . Section 13. If the petition is dismissed under section seven, costs, as in actions at law, shall be awarded to the ...
Assessment of improvements; assessment lien; effective date . Section 14. If the right to assess betterments has been established, the board, within six months after ...
Application of sections controlling eminent domain and betterments; fees of guardians and commissioners . Section 15. The provisions of chapters seventy-nine and eighty, and all ...
Election to proceed under this chapter . Section 16. In any case where the commonwealth, or a county, city, town or district thereof, has been ...
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