General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 205 Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of receiver of absentee or guardian - Chapter 205, Section 1
A receiver of an absentee, and, unless otherwise expressly provided, a guardian before entering upon the duties of his trust, shall give bond with sufficient...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec. 33 - Chapter 205, Section 2 to 5
Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec. 35 - Chapter 205, Section 6
Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surety not required on bonds filed by national banks - Chapter 205, Section 6A
No surety shall be required upon bonds filed by national banks, located in the commonwealth and duly permitted to act in a fiduciary capacity, as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec. 37 - Chapter 205, Section 7 to 8
Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sureties on bonds; requirements - Chapter 205, Section 9
Sureties on probate bonds shall be inhabitants of the commonwealth, and satisfactory to the judge or register; except that companies permitted by section one hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approval by judge or register - Chapter 205, Section 10
No bond required to be given to a judge of probate or to be filed in a registry of probate shall be sufficient, unless it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint fiduciaries; joint or separate bonds - Chapter 205, Section 11
Two or more persons acting jointly as executors, administrators, trustees or otherwise, who are required to give bonds, may give either separate or joint bonds.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint executors; failure to give bond; effect - Chapter 205, Section 12
If two or more persons are appointed executors, none shall intermeddle or act as such but those who give bond as before provided.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fiduciary; license to sell or mortgage realty; additional bond - Chapter 205, Section 13
If a license or authority to sell or mortgage real estate is granted to an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee, no special bond shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insufficiency of sureties; new bond - Chapter 205, Section 14
If the sureties or the penal sum in a probate bond are insufficient, the supreme judicial court or the probate court may, after notice to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of sureties; new bond - Chapter 205, Section 15
A surety on a probate bond may, upon the petition of the surety or of the principal to the supreme judicial court or the probate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to give new bond; effect - Chapter 205, Section 16
If, in the cases specified in the two preceding sections, the principal does not give such new bond within such time as the court orders,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sureties on prior bond; liability - Chapter 205, Section 17
If a new bond is required as above provided, the sureties on the prior bond shall be liable for all breaches of the condition thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penal sum of bond; reduction - Chapter 205, Section 18
If a surety company becomes surety on a probate bond, the court may, upon the petition of any party in interest and after notice, reduce...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Woman fiduciary; effect of marriage - Chapter 205, Section 19
In case of the marriage of a woman who is an executrix, administratrix, guardian, conservator or trustee, her sureties shall, upon petition to the probate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint control of trust estates; agreements between fiduciaries and sureties; authorization - Chapter 205, Section 19A
Any receiver, assignee, guardian, conservator, trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary, or party from whom a bond is required, may agree and arrange with his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions upon bonds by creditors - Chapter 205, Section 20
A bond given by an executor or administrator for the performance of his trust may be put in suit by a creditor of the deceased...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creditors; amount due ascertained by decree of distribution - Chapter 205, Section 21
A creditor of an estate which has been represented insolvent may bring such action if the amount due him has been ascertained by the decree...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions upon bonds by next of kin - Chapter 205, Section 22
Such action may be brought by a person who is next of kin to recover his share of the personal property after a decree of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions upon bonds by person aggrieved by maladministration of fiduciary - Chapter 205, Section 23
If the probate court, upon the representation of a person interested in an estate, finds that the executor or administrator has failed in any manner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judge as obligor - Chapter 205, Section 24
If a judge of probate is obligor, either as principal or as surety, in a bond given to a former judge of the court, any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wife of probate judge as obligor - Chapter 205, Section 25
The wife of a judge of probate may be a defendant in an action upon a bond given to him or to his predecessor in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Endorsement of writ - Chapter 205, Section 26
In every action on a bond under sections twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two, the writ shall be endorsed by the persons for whose benefit or at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Obligor; summoning - Chapter 205, Section 27
If the principal in the bond is a resident of the commonwealth at the commencement of the action, and is not made a defendant therein...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Obligor; failure to appear; effect - Chapter 205, Section 28
The sureties may take out a writ, in such form as the court may prescribe, to arrest the principal or to attach his goods or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions upon bonds given by guardians, conservators, trustees or other fiduciary - Chapter 205, Section 29
Except as otherwise provided, a bond given by a guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer may be put in suit by order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Venue for actions upon bonds - Chapter 205, Section 30
An action on a bond payable to a judge of probate shall be brought in the superior court held for the county where the bond...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Form of execution - Chapter 205, Section 31
If the court finds that there has been a breach of the condition of the bond of an executor or administrator, it shall, upon a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution for use of particular person; procedure - Chapter 205, Section 32
If an execution awarded under the preceding section is expressed to be for the use of a particular person, such person shall be considered as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution for undesignated persons; procedure - Chapter 205, Section 33
If such execution is awarded without expressing it to be for the use of any particular person, all money received thereon shall be paid to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - New breach; effect - Chapter 205, Section 34
If, after execution has once been awarded in an action upon a bond, the executor or administrator commits a new breach of the condition of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of guardian or conservator; limitation of action against sureties - Chapter 205, Section 35
No action shall be maintained against the sureties on a bond given by a guardian or conservator unless commenced within four years from the time...
Last modified: September 11, 2015