TITLE III REMEDIES RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY
- CHAPTER 237 WRITS OF ENTRY
- Section 1 Estates recoverable
- Section 2 Action to recover freehold estates against commonwealth
- Section 3 Form of declaration
- Section 4 Actual entry; seisin; proof; right of entry
- Section 5 Manner of prosecuting action
- Section 6 Disseisors
- Section 7 Actual ouster; effect
- Section 8 Joint tenants; tenants in common; actions
- Section 9 Laws and rules governing
- Section 10 Pleas in answer
- Section 11 Parts or portions recoverable
- Section 12 Rents; profits; destruction or waste
- Section 13 Measure of damages
- Section 14 Use of improvements not element of damages
- Section 15 Limitation of defendant’s liability
- Section 16 Improvements
- Section 17 Possession under supposedly good title; effect
- Section 18 Counterclaim
- Section 19 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 228
- Section 20 Limitation of allowances
- Section 21 Court assessments; postponements
- Section 22 Jury assessments; postponements
- Section 23 Resumption of procedure for assessment by jury
- Section 24 Waiver of jury trial
- Section 25 Assessment by assessors
- Section 26 Judgments to both parties
- Section 27 Excess of improvements over rents and profits; effect
- Section 28 Payment of balance due defendant
- Section 29 Writ of seisin before judgment
- Section 30 Collection of balance due defendant
- Section 31 Valuation without considering improvements
- Section 32 Relinquishment of estate; recording election
- Section 33 Relinquishment of estate; effect; payments by defendant
- Section 34 Nonpayment by defendant; effect
- Section 35 Failure of title to relinquished land; remedies; notice
- Section 36 Effect on mode of payment
- Section 37 Writ of seisin
- Section 38 Recovery by life tenant from remainderman, etc.
- Section 39 Amount due from remainderman; determination
- Section 40 Limitation on amount recoverable
- Section 41 Time for bringing action; limitation
- Section 42 Recording execution for possession and return
- Section 43 Actions for mesne profits or damage to land
- Section 44 Actions by mortgagees
- CHAPTER 238 WRITS OF DOWER [Repealed, 1979, 402, Sec. 2.]
- CHAPTER 239 SUMMARY PROCESS FOR POSSESSION OF LAND
- Section 1 Persons entitled to summary process
- Section 1A Land or tenements used for residential purposes; action by lessor under this chapter to recover possession; conditions and restrictions
- Section 2 Jurisdiction; venue; form of writ
- Section 2A Reprisal for reporting violations of law or for tenant’s union activity; defense; presumption
- Section 3 Judgment and execution; costs; appeal
- Section 4 Storage of property removed; liens and enforcement; penalties
- Section 5 Appeal; bond; actions thereon; waiver; appeal of waiver or periodic payments; notice of decision
- Section 6 Condition of bond in action for possession after foreclosure of mortgage; after purchase
- Section 6A Condition of bond after foreclosure of tax title
- Section 7 Judgments; effect
- Section 8 Three years quiet possession; effect
- Section 8A Rent withholding; grounds; amount claimed; presumptions and burden of proof; procedures
- Section 9 Stay of proceedings
- Section 10 Stay of proceedings; hearings
- Section 11 Stay of proceedings; deposit of applicant
- Section 12 Stay of proceedings; validity of waiver in lease
- Section 13 Stay of proceedings; costs
- CHAPTER 240 PROCEEDINGS FOR SETTLEMENT OF TITLE TO LAND
- Section 1 Petition to compel adverse claimant to try title
- Section 2 Proceedings upon petition
- Section 3 Proceedings upon appearance
- Section 4 Parties without actual notice; remedies
- Section 5 Application of preceding sections
- Section 6 Actions in supreme judicial, superior or land courts
- Section 7 Notice
- Section 8 Guardian ad litem
- Section 9 Guardians ad litem; compensation and expenses
- Section 10 Proceeding in rem; effect of judgment
- Section 10A Restrictions on land; determination; jurisdiction; petition
- Section 10B Notice of proceedings; parties
- Section 10C Determination of restrictions; manner
- Section 11 Petition in land court to determine encumbrances
- Section 12 Unknown, etc., respondents; describing; amending petition
- Section 13 Respondents upon whom service cannot be made; notice; appointing agents
- Section 14 Jurisdiction; hearings; decrees; costs
- Section 14A Municipal zoning ordinances, etc.; petition for judicial determination of validity
- Section 15 Petition in land court; notice
- Section 16 Jurisdiction of land court; determining enforceability of restrictions
- Section 17 Restrictions injurious to public interests; registration of land; damages
- Section 18 Appeal
- Section 19 Petition to land court
- Section 20 Proceedings
- Section 21 Report and plan of commissioners; effect
- Section 22 Costs
- Section 23 Determination of boundaries by court
- Section 24 Parties; subsequent purchasers as
- Section 25 Boundaries determined concurrently with registration
- Section 26 Rights of commonwealth
- Section 27 Fiduciaries, etc.; establishing power or authority
- Section 28 Determination by court
- Section 29 Procedure under this chapter
- CHAPTER 241 PARTITION OF LAND
- Section 1 Persons entitled to partition
- Section 2 Jurisdiction; probate courts; land court
- Section 3 Land within jurisdiction of probate court in two or more counties
- Section 4 Extent of land partitioned
- Section 5 Division of shares
- Section 6 Form and contents of petition; interveners
- Section 7 Notice; filing; registered land
- Section 8 Notice given by citation; contents; publication; service
- Section 9 Persons not personally served; absent, incompetent or undetermined parties
- Section 10 Interlocutory decree; redemption
- Section 11 Dispute as to ownership of share
- Section 12 Commissioners; appointment; duties
- Section 13 Land in different counties
- Section 14 Indivisible land; partition
- Section 15 Money awards; payment or security
- Section 16 Return of commissioners; confirmation; amendments; final decrees; recording
- Section 17 Examination of title, investigations, etc.; omitted parties; improper descriptions
- Section 18 Conclusiveness of partition
- Section 19 Persons not named in petition claiming assigned shares; partitions by sale
- Section 20 Stranger claiming as co-tenant; remedies
- Section 21 Stranger claiming paramount title
- Section 22 Costs
- Section 23 Improvements; compensation
- Section 24 Improvements made before new partition; compensation
- Section 25 Equity jurisdiction
- Section 26 Death of party named in petition
- Section 27 Persons evicted
- Section 28 Mortgagee, etc., of co-tenant
- Section 29 Improvements made by person evicted; compensation
- Section 30 Trusteeship, etc.; effect on partition
- Section 31 Partition by sale
- Section 32 Liability of commissioners; partition by sale
- Section 33 Attachments or liens; failure to disclose; penalties
- Section 34 Unclaimed proceeds of sale; disposition
- Section 35 Trustees; appointment; bond
- Section 36 Water rights; other incorporeal hereditaments; division
- Section 37 Nonnavigable natural streams; partition of water
- CHAPTER 242 WASTE AND TRESPASS
- Section 1 Waste; persons entitled to maintain; jury trial
- Section 2 Actions of tort in nature of waste; persons entitled to maintain
- Section 3 Actions in tort in nature of waste; when maintainable against representatives
- Section 4 Triple damages for waste; liability of co-tenant
- Section 5 Actions for triple damages
- Section 6 Triple damages for waste during pendency of action for recovery of land
- Section 7 Willful trespass to trees, etc.; damages
- Section 7A Agricultural or horticultural land; theft or destruction; treble damages
- Section 7B Damage by off-highway or recreational vehicle to field crops or agricultural property; treble damages; definitions
- Section 8 Involuntary trespass; tender of damages
- Section 9 Enjoining waste; jurisdiction; bond
- CHAPTER 243 ACTIONS FOR PRIVATE NUISANCES
- CHAPTER 244 FORECLOSURE AND REDEMPTION OF MORTGAGES
- Section 1 Foreclosure by entry or action; continued possession
- Section 2 Entry without judgment; memorandum or certificate; recording
- Section 3 Declaration by mortgagees; conditional judgment
- Section 4 Procedure
- Section 5 Form of conditional judgments generally
- Section 6 Form in special cases
- Section 7 Discharge or release on satisfaction of execution
- Section 8 Form of action; parties
- Section 9 Right of entry before breach
- Section 10 Foreclosure and redemption where entry made before breach
- Section 11 Mortgages containing power of sale; court order for sale
- Section 12 Procedure after sale
- Section 13 Necessary parties
- Section 14 Foreclosure under power of sale; procedure; notice; form
- Section 14A Foreclosure database; annual report on developments and trends in residential property foreclosures
- Section 15 Copy of notice; affidavit; recording; evidence
- Section 15A Mortgagee taking possession or conveying title; notice
- Section 16 Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec. 22
- Section 17 Conveyance by mortgagor; effect
- Section 17A Limitation of actions
- Section 17B Notice of intention to foreclose; necessity; form; notice and affidavit
- Section 17C Waiver of provisions of Secs. 17A and 17B; validity
- Section 18 Persons authorized to redeem
- Section 19 Tender of payment or performance