SECTION 1. Transitory actions; general provisions

SECTION 2. Transitory actions; district courts

SECTION 2A. Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction

SECTION 2B. Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court

SECTION 2C. Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer

SECTION 3. Transitory actions; enumeration

SECTION 4. Replevin actions

SECTION 5. Actions by the commonwealth

SECTION 6. Counties; actions by or against

SECTION 7. Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions

SECTION 8. Corporations; actions by or against

SECTION 8A. Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers

SECTION 9. Transitory actions by or against city of Boston

SECTION 10. Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk

SECTION 11. Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against

SECTION 12. Land title actions

SECTION 13. Change of venue

SECTION 14. Forfeitures

SECTION 15. Erroneous venue; procedure

SECTION 16 to 18. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 24

SECTION 19. Unknown defendant; procedure

SECTION 19A. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 86

SECTION 20. Process; issuance

SECTION 21, 22. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87

SECTION 23. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26

SECTION 24. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 87

SECTION 25. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26

SECTION 26 to 30. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 26

SECTION 31. Summons; leaving at last known address, etc.

SECTION 31A. Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting

SECTION 32. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28

SECTION 33. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 91

SECTION 34. Further notice to absent defendant

SECTION 35. Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return

SECTION 36. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 28

SECTION 37. Corporations; persons authorized to be served

SECTION 38. Foreign corporations

SECTION 39. Foreign insurance company; manner of service

SECTION 39A. Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable

SECTION 39B. Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers

SECTION 40. Voluntary associations, service on

SECTION 41. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 93

SECTION 42. Property subject to attachment

SECTION 42A. Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment

SECTION 43. Cars and vessels; attachment

SECTION 44. Ships or vessels; conditions precedent

SECTION 44A. Motor vehicles; conditions precedent

SECTION 45. Property of newspaper offices

SECTION 45A. Attaching officer; powers to require security

SECTION 46. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 33

SECTION 47. Successive attachments on different writs

SECTION 48. Keeper; appointment; costs

SECTION 49. Attached personalty; keeping on owner's premises

SECTION 50. Bulky goods

SECTION 51. Repealed, 2001, 26, Sec. 44

SECTION 52. Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale

SECTION 53. Further attachment of replevied property

SECTION 54. Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value

SECTION 55. Death or removal of first attaching officer

SECTION 56. Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment

SECTION 57. Replevied property; mode of attaching

SECTION 58. Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment

SECTION 59. Duration of attachment after judgment

SECTION 60, 61. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 103

SECTION 62. General provisions

SECTION 63. Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds

SECTION 64. Attaching officer; duty

SECTION 65. Register; duty; fees

SECTION 66. Attachment; time of taking effect

SECTION 67. Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions

SECTION 68. Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register

SECTION 69. Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers

SECTION 70. Encumbered realty

SECTION 71. Attachment of shares of stock prohibited

SECTION 72. Attachment of property in possession of bailee; limitation

SECTION 73. Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession

SECTION 74. Mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract

SECTION 75. Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account

SECTION 76. Excessive demands; penalty

SECTION 77. Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors

SECTION 78. Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price

SECTION 79. Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination

SECTION 80. Amount due; determination

SECTION 81. Validity of mortgage; determination

SECTION 82. Creditor to retain amount paid by him

SECTION 83. Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment

SECTION 83A. Application of Secs. 74 to 83

SECTION 84. Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service

SECTION 85, 86. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 37

SECTION 86A. Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment

SECTION 87. Sale of attached personal property

SECTION 88. Perishable property; appraisal and sale

SECTION 89. Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings

SECTION 90. Absent defendant; notice

SECTION 91. Appraisers; manner of appointment

SECTION 92. Perishable property; sale after appraisal

SECTION 93. Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition

SECTION 94. Bond; duty to return with writs

SECTION 95. Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors

SECTION 96. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 111

SECTION 97. Action on bond; distribution of money by court

SECTION 98. Action on bond; protection of prior attachments

SECTION 99. Action on bond; right of creditor not joining

SECTION 100. Action on bond; limitation

SECTION 101. Creditors; payment and satisfaction

SECTION 102. Appraisal at request of part owner

SECTION 103. Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent

SECTION 104. Pledge of property

SECTION 105. Restoration

SECTION 106. Dissolution of prior attachment: application

SECTION 107. Affidavit and bond

SECTION 108. Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court

SECTION 109. Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings

SECTION 110. Dissolution of prior attachment; defences

SECTION 111. Costs; damages

SECTION 112. Proceeding upon appeal

SECTION 113. Judgment; force and effect

SECTION 113A. Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments

SECTION 114. Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge

SECTION 114A. Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law

SECTION 115. Dissolution of attachment upon exhaustion of appellate review

SECTION 115A. Failure of service upon defendant

SECTION 115B. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 40

SECTION 116. Death of defendant

SECTION 117. Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds

SECTION 118. Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him

SECTION 119. Counterclaim

SECTION 120. Dissolution of attachment upon giving of bond

SECTION 121. Bond; hearing before approval

SECTION 122. Debtor's fees and costs

SECTION 123. Debtor's bond; filing

SECTION 124. Release of sureties of insolvent debtor

SECTION 125. Bond to pay value of property

SECTION 126. Fees

SECTION 127. Fraudulently conveyed realty

SECTION 128. Deposit

SECTION 129. Individual property of one defendant

SECTION 129A. Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property

SECTION 130. Dissolution of attachment upon appointment of receiver

SECTION 131. Discharge of receiver

SECTION 132. Dissolution of attachment of real estate upon release by plaintiff

SECTION 133. Persons authorized; approval