General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES |
TITLE V. STATUTES OF FRAUDS AND LIMITATIONS |
CHAPTER 260. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS |
SECTION 1. Actions requiring commencement within twenty years |
SECTION 2. Contract actions; actions upon judgments or decrees of courts of record |
SECTION 2A. Tort, contract to recover for personal injuries, and replevin actions |
SECTION 2B. Tort actions arising from improvements to real property |
SECTION 2C. Actions for damages, etc. for physical alteration or destruction of fine art |
SECTION 2D. Actions to recover costs of asbestos related corrective actions |
SECTION 2E. Actions against the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust |
SECTION 3. Misconduct or negligence of deputies; actions against sheriffs |
SECTION 3A. Claims against commonwealth |
SECTION 4. Certain tort or contract actions for malpractice, error or mistake |
SECTION 4A. Back wages, actions to recover |
SECTION 4B. Hit and run accidents |
SECTION 4C. Sexual abuse of minors |
SECTION 4C1/2. Negligent supervision or conduct causing or contributing to the sexual abuse of minor by another person |
SECTION 4D. Civil remedies for victims of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude; damages; time for actions; representation of victim's rights by others |
SECTION 5. Penalties and forfeitures |
SECTION 5A. Consumer protection actions |
SECTION 5B. Civil rights actions |
SECTION 6. Mutual and open account current |
SECTION 7. Minors and incapacitated persons |
SECTION 8. Citizens of enemy country; suspension of limitation |
SECTION 9. Nonresident defendant; suspension of limitation |
SECTION 10. Death of party; effect |
SECTION 11. Contracts or acts of fiduciaries |
SECTION 12. Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations |
SECTION 13. Acknowledgment or new promise; effect |
SECTION 14. Part payment; effect |
SECTION 15. Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; effect |
SECTION 16. Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; judgment |
SECTION 17. Action not to be dismissed for failure to join barred party defendant |
SECTION 18. Actions by state; laws applicable |
SECTION 19. Special limitations |
SECTION 19A. Currency; euro as commercially reasonable substitute and substantial equivalent |
SECTION 20. Presumption of satisfaction of judgment |
SECTION 21. Recovery of land |
SECTION 22. Accrual of right or title to land; limitation |
SECTION 23 to 27. Repealed, 1979, 402, Sec. 3 |
SECTION 28. Possession of land; requisites |
SECTION 29. Estates tail; barring remainders and reversions |
SECTION 30. Estates tail; death of tenant; effect |
SECTION 31. Actions by commonwealth |
SECTION 31A. Right of entry for condition broken or possibility of reverter; procedure |
SECTION 32. Dismissal of action or reversal or vacation of judgment; commencement of new action |
SECTION 33. Obsolete mortgages |
SECTION 34. Extension of mortgage; acknowledgment that mortgage not satisfied, etc. |
SECTION 35. Mortgage defined; commencement of proceedings, prerequisites; application of Secs. 33 to 35 |
SECTION 36. Application; computation |