General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES |
TITLE IV. CERTAIN WRITS AND PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES |
CHAPTER 246. TRUSTEE PROCESS |
SECTION 1. Actions maintainable; trustees |
SECTION 2. Venue |
SECTION 3. Change of venue |
SECTION 4. Venue in district courts |
SECTION 4A. Change of venue in district courts |
SECTION 4B. Venue in actions to enforce support orders |
SECTION 5. Trustee summons; service |
SECTION 6. Foreign corporations; service |
SECTION 7. Partnerships; service |
SECTION 8. New trustees; successive services |
SECTION 9. Proceedings if trustees discharged |
SECTION 10. Answer; filing; contents |
SECTION 11. Answer under oath; written declarations |
SECTION 12. Interrogatories; answer |
SECTION 13. Discharge of trustees |
SECTION 14. Admissions by trustees; interrogatories |
SECTION 15. Corporations; appearance and answer |
SECTION 16. Truth of answer |
SECTION 17. Questions of fact; trial |
SECTION 18. Default of trustee |
SECTION 19. False answers; penalty |
SECTION 20. Effect of attachment |
SECTION 20A. Attachment of wages; proceedings outside commonwealth against resident debtors and employers prohibited |
SECTION 21. Repealed, 2012, 140, Sec. 59 |
SECTION 22. Liability as trustee of assignee in insolvency |
SECTION 23. Liability of receivers |
SECTION 24. Money, etc., due but not payable; attachment |
SECTION 25. Conveyances void as to creditors; persons having property as trustees |
SECTION 26. Mutual demands between trustee and defendant; liability of trustee |
SECTION 27. Liability of trustee before knowledge of service |
SECTION 28. Wages and pensions; exemptions; exceptions |
SECTION 28A. Monies held by banks or similar institutions; exemption; limitations |
SECTION 29. Offer of judgment; costs |
SECTION 30. Attaching exempt wages; penalty |
SECTION 31. Bonds; savings banks as trustees |
SECTION 32. Claims not attachable by trustee process |
SECTION 33. Claims by third persons |
SECTION 34. Assignments as security for debts |
SECTION 35. Actions pending by defendant against trustees; continuance |
SECTION 36. Actions not continued; liability of judgment debtor as trustee |
SECTION 37. Defendant in pending action adjudged trustee; proceedings |
SECTION 38. Counterclaim by defendant in pending action; proceedings |
SECTION 39. Form of judgment charging trustee |
SECTION 40. Second attachment; recovery by defendant |
SECTION 41. Liability of trustee after thirty days |
SECTION 42. Demand on absent trustee; service |
SECTION 43. Effect of judgment against trustee |
SECTION 44. Discharge of trustee; actions by defendant |
SECTION 45. Action to satisfy judgment upon default of trustee |
SECTION 46. Default of trustee; judgment in absence of answer or examination in original action |
SECTION 47. Default of trustee; judgment in case of answer or examination in original action |
SECTION 48. Appearance of trustee; proceedings; judgments |
SECTION 49. Limitations |
SECTION 50. Death of trustee before judgment satisfied |
SECTION 51. Death of trustee before judgment; proceedings; prior examination of deceased |
SECTION 52. Default judgments; payments |
SECTION 53. Death of trustee after judgment |
SECTION 54. Death within thirty days after judgment |
SECTION 55. Service of execution |
SECTION 56. Failure of executor or administrator to pay amount charged; remedies |
SECTION 57. Proceedings if trustee is charged for specific property |
SECTION 58. Determination of value of property delivered |
SECTION 59. Delivery of specific property according to contract |
SECTION 60. Property held by trustee as security; tender by attaching creditor |
SECTION 61. Property held for other than security purposes |
SECTION 62. Property received by officer; disposal; proceeds |
SECTION 63. Sale by trustee of property held for security |
SECTION 64. Failure of trustee to deliver property |
SECTION 65. Common carriers as trustees; liability for nondelivery |
SECTION 66. Bonds; persons entitled to file |
SECTION 67. Delivery of property by trustee; limitation of action on bond |
SECTION 68. Allowable to trustee |
SECTION 69. Payable out of effects |
SECTION 70. Payable by plaintiff |
SECTION 71. Persons absent from commonwealth |
SECTION 72. Persons out of county |
SECTION 73. Trustees neglecting to appear; liability for costs |
SECTION 74. Recovery of costs |
SECTION 75. Several trustees; liability for costs |
SECTION 76. Actions against trustees |
SECTION 77. Action against defaulting trustee; liability for costs |
SECTION 78. Action against defaulting trustee; costs, nonliability, recovery precluded |
SECTION 79. Action against defaulting trustee; costs, nonliability, recovery |
SECTION 80. Action against defaulting trustee; execution against trustee for costs |
SECTION 81. Action against several defaulting trustees; liability for costs |
SECTION 82. Adverse claimants |
SECTION 83. Costs where damages less than ten dollars |