General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 227 Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service

• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions in personam - Chapter 227, Section 1
  A personal action shall not be maintained against a person not an inhabitant of the commonwealth unless he or his agent appointed under section five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counterclaims - Chapter 227, Section 2
  If an action is brought by a person not an inhabitant of the commonwealth or who cannot be found herein to be served with process,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 56 - Chapter 227, Section 3 4
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agents for service of process; duty to appoint by certain individuals; penalty - Chapter 227, Section 5
  Every individual not an inhabitant of the commonwealth and every partnership composed of persons not such inhabitants, having a usual place of business in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of city or town clerk as agent for service of process by certain non-residents; certificate; notice of action; filing - Chapter 227, Section 5A
  Except as provided in section five, every non-resident doing business in the commonwealth shall file a certificate with the clerk of each city or town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of realty; dismissal of action upon failure of notice - Chapter 227, Section 6
  If real property of a non-resident is attached and no personal service is made upon him, the action shall be dismissed unless notice thereof is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice - Chapter 227, Section 7
  If a defendant in a civil action is absent from the commonwealth or his residence is unknown to the officer serving the summons and complaint,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Default - Chapter 227, Section 8
  If, after such notice, the defendant does not appear within twenty-one days after the day specified therefor, a default shall be entered and judgment rendered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond - Chapter 227, Section 9
  If judgment in a personal action is rendered under the preceding section upon the default of a defendant who is absent from the commonwealth or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 60 - Chapter 227, Section 10
  Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Execution levied on land - Chapter 227, Section 11
  If the execution in an action under this chapter, except as otherwise provided, is levied on land, no alienation thereof by the original plaintiff shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment in real actions - Chapter 227, Section 12
  If the original judgment was for seisin of the land demanded in a real action, the writ of seisin may be issued in favor of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tort actions - Chapter 227, Section 13
  An action of tort against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth at the time of the service of process, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract actions - Chapter 227, Section 14
  An action of contract against several defendants, any one of whom is in the commonwealth and any other of whom is absent, in which the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prosecution against persons served; new action - Chapter 227, Section 15
  An action of contract against several defendants in which legal service is not made upon all, either by attachment or otherwise, by reason of their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Real actions; absence of one of several defendants - Chapter 227, Section 16
  Real actions against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth, shall be conducted relative to him as if he were the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mixed actions - Chapter 227, Section 17
  The provisions of this chapter relative to judgment, bond and review in actions of tort shall apply to a mixed action if the defendant or...

Last modified: September 11, 2015