General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 223 Commencement of Actions, Service of Process

• Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 1
  A transitory action shall, except as otherwise provided, if any one of the parties thereto lives in the commonwealth, be brought in the county where...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; district courts - Chapter 223, Section 2
  Except as provided in section twenty-one of chapter two hundred and eighteen, a transitory action in a district court shall be brought in a court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction - Chapter 223, Section 2A
  Whenever cross actions between the same parties or two or more actions, including for the purposes hereof other court proceedings and actions transferred under section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court - Chapter 223, Section 2B
  Whenever cross actions between the same parties or two or more actions, including for the purposes hereof other court proceedings, arising out of or connected...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer - Chapter 223, Section 2C
  Whenever any action or proceeding is transferred to another court under any provision of section two A or section two B, such action or proceeding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions; enumeration - Chapter 223, Section 3
  Every action for rent, use and occupation or breach of covenant shall be considered a transitory action.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replevin actions - Chapter 223, Section 4
  An action brought pursuant to chapter two hundred and forty-seven shall be brought in the county where the goods or beasts are detained.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions by the commonwealth - Chapter 223, Section 5
  A civil action in which the commonwealth is plaintiff or in which money due to the commonwealth is sought to be recovered may be brought...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counties; actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 6
  A local or transitory action by a county shall be brought in the county where the defendant lives or in a county adjoining the plaintiff...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions - Chapter 223, Section 7
  An action against a town or person to recover for injury or damage received by reason of a defect, want of repair or of an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations; actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 8
  Transitory actions, except those mentioned in the preceding section, to which a corporation, other than a county or the city of Boston, is a party,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers - Chapter 223, Section 8A
  Transitory actions by or against the subscribers to a reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange defined in section ninety-four A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transitory actions by or against city of Boston - Chapter 223, Section 9
  An action by or against the city of Boston, except actions mentioned in section seven and actions by the collector of said city under sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk - Chapter 223, Section 10
  The defendant in an action brought in Suffolk county by the city of Boston or by its collector may, if the action is brought in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against - Chapter 223, Section 11
  A transitory action by or against an executor or administrator may be brought in a county in which it might have been brought by or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Land title actions - Chapter 223, Section 12
  If a tract of land lies in two or more counties, an action relative to it, to which neither a county, the city of Boston...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of venue - Chapter 223, Section 13
  If the supreme judicial or superior court finds that a party to an action or proceeding pending therein cannot, by reason of local prejudice or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeitures - Chapter 223, Section 14
  A civil action for the recovery of a forfeiture, except an action in which the commonwealth is plaintiff, or in which money is sought to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Erroneous venue; procedure - Chapter 223, Section 15
  If an error in venue is discovered at any stage of the proceedings of a civil action in the supreme judicial or superior court, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24 - Chapter 223, Section 16 to 18
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unknown defendant; procedure - Chapter 223, Section 19
  In a civil action if the name of the defendant is not known to the plaintiff, the defendant may be designated in the summons and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86 - Chapter 223, Section 19A
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Process; issuance - Chapter 223, Section 20
  Process in the supreme judicial and superior court shall be signed, and may be issued, by the clerk, shall bear teste of the first justice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87 - Chapter 223, Section 21 22
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26 - Chapter 223, Section 23
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87 - Chapter 223, Section 24
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26 - Chapter 223, Section 25 to 30
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summons; leaving at last known address, etc. - Chapter 223, Section 31
  In an action brought in the district court, if service is made at the last and usual place of abode, the officer making service shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting - Chapter 223, Section 31A
  Personal service of a writ or summons upon a defendant while he is exercising his right to vote shall be null and void.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28 - Chapter 223, Section 32
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91 - Chapter 223, Section 33
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Further notice to absent defendant - Chapter 223, Section 34
  If the defendant is out of the commonwealth, or if his residence is not known to the officer, and no personal service is made on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return - Chapter 223, Section 35
  When process is served by an officer by leaving copies of the summons, subpoena, or summons and complaint at the last and usual place of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, Sec. 377, Sec. 28 - Chapter 223, Section 36
  Repealed, 1975, Sec. 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations; persons authorized to be served - Chapter 223, Section 37
  In an action against a county, city, town, parish or religious society, or against the proprietors of wharves, general fields or real estate lying in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign corporations - Chapter 223, Section 38
  In an action against a foreign corporation, except an insurance company, which has a usual place of business in the commonwealth, or with or without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign insurance company; manner of service - Chapter 223, Section 39
  In an action against a foreign insurance company transacting business in this commonwealth, service may be made upon an agent of the company, licensed as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable - Chapter 223, Section 39A
  In an action against insurance companies severally liable upon a policy of insurance issued under section one hundred and two A, one hundred and eleven...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers - Chapter 223, Section 39B
  In an action against the subscribers of a reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange defined in section ninety-four A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voluntary associations, service on - Chapter 223, Section 40
  In an action against a voluntary association or trust described in section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-two, engaged in business in the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93 - Chapter 223, Section 41
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Property subject to attachment - Chapter 223, Section 42
  All real and personal property liable to be taken on execution, except such personal property as, from its nature or situation, has been considered as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment - Chapter 223, Section 42A
  In an action or suit for an amount which is liquidated or ascertainable by calculation, no attachment by trustee process or otherwise shall be made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cars and vessels; attachment - Chapter 223, Section 43
  Railroad cars and engines and street railway cars, in use and making regular passages on railroads or railways, and steamboats so in use upon water...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ships or vessels; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 44
  No ship or vessel shall be attached in a civil action unless the plaintiff or a person on his behalf makes affidavit and proves to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 44A
  Motor vehicles registered under the law of this commonwealth and not exempt from execution under clause Sixteenth of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Property of newspaper offices - Chapter 223, Section 45
  The press, type, stands, cases, paper and other personal property used in printing and publishing newspapers shall not, within forty-eight hours previous to the issue...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; powers to require security - Chapter 223, Section 45A
  If there is reasonable doubt as to the ownership of personal property or as to its liability to be attached on mesne process, before or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33 - Chapter 223, Section 46
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Successive attachments on different writs - Chapter 223, Section 47
  Personal property which has been attached or taken on execution by a constable may be further attached or taken on execution by a deputy sheriff...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Keeper; appointment; costs - Chapter 223, Section 48
  An officer directed to make an attachment of personal property may, if the writ bears an endorsement signed by a justice, associate justice or special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attached personalty; keeping on owner’s premises - Chapter 223, Section 49
  Personal property which has been attached may, subject to the preceding section, be kept on the premises where it is found, unless the owner or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bulky goods - Chapter 223, Section 50
  If an attachment is made of articles of personal property which, by reason of their bulk or for other cause, cannot be immediately removed, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec. 44 - Chapter 223, Section 51
  Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale - Chapter 223, Section 52
  If personal property has been sold or disposed of by consent of the parties, or after an appraisal as hereinafter provided, the proceeds, while remaining...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Further attachment of replevied property - Chapter 223, Section 53
  Property which has been replevied from an officer who has attached it shall be considered as remaining in his custody and control so as to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value - Chapter 223, Section 54
  If there is judgment for a return of the property so replevied, the plaintiff in replevin and his sureties shall be liable for the whole...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death or removal of first attaching officer - Chapter 223, Section 55
  If an officer dies or is removed from office while an attachment which he has made remains in force, the attached property, whether replevied or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment - Chapter 223, Section 56
  The officer who makes such later attachment shall not take the property itself, but he shall make proof of service of the writ of attachment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replevied property; mode of attaching - Chapter 223, Section 57
  Property which has been replevied from an attaching officer shall not be further attached as the property of the original defendant in any manner other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment - Chapter 223, Section 58
  Property which has been attached by an officer, whether in his custody at his death or taken from him by replevin or otherwise, and also...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duration of attachment after judgment - Chapter 223, Section 59
  Upon judgment for the plaintiff in a civil action, property which has been attached in connection with said action shall remain subject to attachment for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103 - Chapter 223, Section 60 61
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - General provisions - Chapter 223, Section 62
  In attaching land, or a right or interest therein, the officer need not enter upon the land or be within view of it. In attaching...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds - Chapter 223, Section 63
  No attachment of land or of any leasehold estate shall be valid against a subsequent attaching creditor, or against a subsequent purchaser in good faith...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; duty - Chapter 223, Section 64
  The officer who makes such attachment shall deposit such copy in the registry of deeds.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; duty; fees - Chapter 223, Section 65
  The register of deeds shall note on such copy the day, hour and minute of its receipt, and shall record it in his office. He...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment; time of taking effect - Chapter 223, Section 66
  If the copy of the writ is deposited, as aforesaid, within three days after the day when the attachment was made the attachment shall take...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions - Chapter 223, Section 67
  If an attachment on mesne process is made of land, or of a right or interest therein, which has been fraudulently conveyed by the debtor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register - Chapter 223, Section 68
  The register in such case, in addition to the names of the parties to the action which he is required to enter as provided in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers - Chapter 223, Section 69
  Registers of deeds shall perform the same duties relative to the filing and entering of copies of writs and other papers in actions commenced in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbered realty - Chapter 223, Section 70
  An attachment of land which is subject to a mortgage or other encumbrance shall, if the mortgage is redeemed or the encumbrance is removed before...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of shares of stock prohibited - Chapter 223, Section 71
  Shares of stock shall not be attached in a civil action in which only money damages are sought.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of property in possession of bailee; limitation - Chapter 223, Section 72
  If goods are delivered to a carrier or other bailee by the owner or by a person whose act in conveying title to a purchaser...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession - Chapter 223, Section 73
  Except as provided in the preceding section, property in the possession of a carrier or warehouseman may be attached by trustee process or otherwise; but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract - Chapter 223, Section 74
  Personal property of a debtor which is subject to a mortgage, pledge or lien, and of which he has the right of redemption, or personal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account - Chapter 223, Section 75
  Within a reasonable time after such property has been attached, or, in the case of property subject to a recorded mortgage or covered by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Excessive demands; penalty - Chapter 223, Section 76
  If the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, demands and receives more than the amount due to him, he shall be liable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors - Chapter 223, Section 77
  If property which has been attached and redeemed by the attaching creditor, as aforesaid, is sold on mesne process or on execution, the proceeds thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price - Chapter 223, Section 78
  If the attaching creditor, after having redeemed the property, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the debtor repays to him...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination - Chapter 223, Section 79
  Personal property upon which a mortgage or lien is claimed, or which is claimed to have been sold under a contract of conditional sale reserving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount due; determination - Chapter 223, Section 80
  If, upon such examination, or, upon the verdict of a jury as provided in section eighty-one, it appears that the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Validity of mortgage; determination - Chapter 223, Section 81
  If the attaching creditor denies the validity of the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale, and moves that its validity be tried by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Creditor to retain amount paid by him - Chapter 223, Section 82
  When the creditor has paid to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, the amount ordered by the court, he may retain...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment - Chapter 223, Section 83
  If the attaching creditor, after having paid the amount ordered by the court, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 74 to 83 - Chapter 223, Section 83A
  Sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to security interests in personal property which are recordable under section nine—four hundred and one (1)(b) of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service - Chapter 223, Section 84
  If in a civil action the defendant makes a motion to dismiss the action for insufficient service of process, the court may dismiss the action...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37 - Chapter 223, Section 85 86
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment - Chapter 223, Section 86A
  Upon motion of the plaintiff at any time after entry of a judgment in his favor in the supreme judicial court, superior court, housing court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of attached personal property - Chapter 223, Section 87
  Personal property which has been attached on one or more writs may, if the debtor and all the attaching creditors consent in writing, subject to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; appraisal and sale - Chapter 223, Section 88
  If an attachment is made of animals or of goods which are liable to perish, waste or greatly decrease in value by keeping, or which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings - Chapter 223, Section 89
  Upon such application, the attaching officer shall give notice to all the other parties or their attorneys, prepare a schedule of the goods and cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Absent defendant; notice - Chapter 223, Section 90
  If the defendant is not within the commonwealth and has no attorney therein, the notice in writing shall be left at his last and usual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appraisers; manner of appointment - Chapter 223, Section 91
  One appraiser shall be appointed by the creditor or creditors in the several actions, one by the debtor or debtors, and one by the officer;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; sale after appraisal - Chapter 223, Section 92
  The appraisers shall examine the attached property and, if in their opinion it, or a part thereof, is liable to perish or waste or to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition - Chapter 223, Section 93
  The property so appraised shall, if he requires it, be delivered to the debtor upon his depositing with the attaching officer the appraised value thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; duty to return with writs - Chapter 223, Section 94
  The officer who takes such bond shall return it with the writ on which the first attachment is made in like manner as bail bonds...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors - Chapter 223, Section 95
  If judgment is rendered for the defendants in an action on such bond, executions for the costs shall be issued against the attaching creditors by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111 - Chapter 223, Section 96
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; distribution of money by court - Chapter 223, Section 97
  The court may, upon a hearing, determine the rights of the several attaching creditors and award a separate execution for the amount due or payable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; protection of prior attachments - Chapter 223, Section 98
  No judgment or execution shall be awarded for the use of a creditor without reserving as much as may be due upon any prior attachment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; right of creditor not joining - Chapter 223, Section 99
  A creditor who is entitled to the benefit of the bond, and who has not joined in bringing the action thereon may, upon motion at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond; limitation - Chapter 223, Section 100
  No creditor whose cause of action on such bond accrued more than one year before the commencement of the action shall have judgment or execution.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Creditors; payment and satisfaction - Chapter 223, Section 101
  If property which has been sold, or appraised and delivered to the debtor, in the manner before provided is attached by several creditors, any one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appraisal at request of part owner - Chapter 223, Section 102
  If personal property of two or more part owners is attached in an action against one or more of them, it shall, upon the request...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent - Chapter 223, Section 103
  The property so appraised shall be delivered to the part owner at whose request it was appraised, upon his giving bond to the attaching officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pledge of property - Chapter 223, Section 104
  If such appraised value or any part thereof is so paid, the defendant’s share of the property shall thereby become pledged to the party to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration - Chapter 223, Section 105
  If the attachment is dissolved, the party to whom the defendant’s share was delivered shall restore it to the defendant, or to the officer, to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment: application - Chapter 223, Section 106
  If real or personal property has been attached in an action, any person, other than the parties, who claims title or interest therein by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Affidavit and bond - Chapter 223, Section 107
  The petitioner, or a person in his behalf, shall make oath that his claim is just and legal and that all the other facts stated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court - Chapter 223, Section 108
  If the court finds that a part of the amount demanded in the prior action is not justly due, or was not payable when the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings - Chapter 223, Section 109
  The proceedings between the adverse claimants or plaintiffs shall not be affected by any pleading or other act of the defendant in the prior action...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of prior attachment; defences - Chapter 223, Section 110
  No attachment shall be dissolved as aforesaid by reason of a defence to the action which is founded on the laws for the limitation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Costs; damages - Chapter 223, Section 111
  The court may, upon such inquiry, award to either party reasonable costs and, if the prior attachment is maintained, may award to the attaching creditor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeding upon appeal - Chapter 223, Section 112
  If, during the pendency of the proceedings, the action in which the attachment was made is transferred to another court, the inquiry concerning the attachment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment; force and effect - Chapter 223, Section 113
  The judgment of the court upon such an inquiry, whether the attachment is thereby vacated or held to be valid and effectual, shall be a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments - Chapter 223, Section 113A
  Attachments in all cases in law, equity or probate courts of the commonwealth shall be dissolved, discharged or reduced in whole or in part without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge - Chapter 223, Section 114
  If an excessive or unreasonable attachment, by trustee process or otherwise, is made, the defendant or person whose property has been attached may submit a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law - Chapter 223, Section 114A
  An attachment of land, or of a right or interest therein, shall, unless otherwise dissolved, expire by operation of law at the end of six...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of attachment upon exhaustion of appellate review - Chapter 223, Section 115
  If the judgment in a civil action is for the defendant, the attachment shall be dissolved upon the exhaustion of all possible appellate review of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of service upon defendant - Chapter 223, Section 115A
  If real property of the defendant is attached in any action and no service is made upon him, the attachment shall be dissolved unless it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40 - Chapter 223, Section 115B
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death of defendant - Chapter 223, Section 116
  An attachment of real or personal property shall be dissolved if the debtor dies before it is taken or seized on execution and administration of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds - Chapter 223, Section 117
  If the officer has, before such demand, sold on execution the personal property attached or a right of redeeming land attached as aforesaid, he shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him - Chapter 223, Section 118
  If the officer in such case has, before such demand, paid over the proceeds of the sale to the judgment creditor, he shall not be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counterclaim - Chapter 223, Section 119
  The defendant, in an action founded on either of the three preceding sections, shall not be allowed to counter-claim for a demand against the executor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of attachment upon giving of bond - Chapter 223, Section 120
  A defendant whose property has been attached in a civil action may at any time dissolve the attachment by giving a bond with sufficient sureties,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; hearing before approval - Chapter 223, Section 121
  Before such bond is approved, the defendant, or a person in his behalf, shall make application in writing to the magistrate, specifying therein the names...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Debtor’s fees and costs - Chapter 223, Section 122
  If the attachment is dissolved and the defendant prevails, his costs shall include the fees of the magistrate and the premium or premiums paid for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Debtor’s bond; filing - Chapter 223, Section 123
  Such bond and the bond required by section one hundred and twenty-seven shall be filed by the defendant with the clerk of the court to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Release of sureties of insolvent debtor - Chapter 223, Section 124
  If, within four months after an attachment of property has been made on mesne process in a civil action founded on a claim which would,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond to pay value of property - Chapter 223, Section 125
  A defendant may, at any time before execution, issue upon a judgment, release from attachment the property attached, or such part thereof as he may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 223, Section 126
  The magistrate may adjourn such hearing from time to time. He shall determine the fees of the appraisers. The applicant shall pay the fees of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently conveyed realty - Chapter 223, Section 127
  If an attachment of real property is made under sections sixty-seven and sixty-eight, the person in whose name the record title of the property attached...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit - Chapter 223, Section 128
  A defendant may dissolve an attachment by depositing with the attaching officer an amount of money equal at least to the amount of the attachment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Individual property of one defendant - Chapter 223, Section 129
  A defendant whose individual property has been attached in an action against several defendants may dissolve such attachment, or any part thereof, in any of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property - Chapter 223, Section 129A
  The officer shall not be liable for the release of personal property attached by him if he receives a certificate from the clerk of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of attachment upon appointment of receiver - Chapter 223, Section 130
  An attachment of property shall be dissolved by the appointment by any court of competent jurisdiction in the commonwealth of a receiver to take possession...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of receiver - Chapter 223, Section 131
  If an attachment has been dissolved in the manner provided in the preceding section, the proceedings for the appointment of a receiver shall not thereafter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of attachment of real estate upon release by plaintiff - Chapter 223, Section 132
  An attachment of real estate shall be dissolved by a release signed and acknowledged by the plaintiff or by his executor, administrator or attorney of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons authorized; approval - Chapter 223, Section 133
  A bond which is required to be given by a party to a civil action or proceeding may be executed by any person other than...

Last modified: September 11, 2015