General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 245 Informations by the Commonwealth

• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful entry; action for recovery - Chapter 245, Section 1
  If a person unlawfully enters upon or holds land belonging to the commonwealth, it may be recovered in a civil action brought by the attorney...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Order of governor and council; when necessary - Chapter 245, Section 2
  If the title of the commonwealth is founded on a forfeiture for breach of a condition in a grant or conveyance by the commonwealth or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 255 - Chapter 245, Section 3
  Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice by publication - Chapter 245, Section 4
  If, in case of a supposed escheat, no person appears as the heir of the person last seized, or if in any case there is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Defendants, persons who may be; costs - Chapter 245, Section 5
  A person claiming an estate or interest in the land, although not named in the complaint nor served with process, may appear and answer thereto;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rents and profits; improvements; commonwealth prevailing party - Chapter 245, Section 6
  If the commonwealth prevails, the defendant shall be chargeable for rents and profits and be entitled to an allowance for improvements as provided in chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judgments for commonwealth; effect - Chapter 245, Section 7
  The commonwealth shall be actually seized and possessed of the land as soon as judgment is rendered in its favor, without a writ of possession.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judgments; conclusiveness - Chapter 245, Section 8
  The judgment shall be conclusive between the commonwealth and the defendants who appear and answer, and against every person named as a defendant and duly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons not concluded; action for recovery - Chapter 245, Section 9
  A person not concluded by a judgment for the commonwealth under the preceding section may, until his claim is barred by law for the limitation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Against whom action brought - Chapter 245, Section 10
  If the commonwealth continues seized of the land when such new action is commenced, such action shall be brought against the tenant or occupant thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rents and profits; improvements; plaintiff prevailing party - Chapter 245, Section 11
  If the plaintiff recovers judgment, he shall be entitled to rents and profits and chargeable for improvements as provided in chapter two hundred and thirty-seven,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Costs - Chapter 245, Section 12
  Costs shall be awarded and taxed for the prevailing party. If judgment is for the commonwealth, an execution for costs shall issue; if it is...

Last modified: September 11, 2015