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MA Gen L ch 246 § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 53 - Death of Trustee After Judgment

Section 53. If a person summoned as trustee dies after judgment in the original action, his executor or administrator may pay upon the execution the amount which the deceased would have been liable to pay were he living, and he shall be discharged from all further demands on account thereof in the manner before mentioned. If he refuses to make such payment, the plaintiff may proceed against him as provided in section forty-five.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 54 - Death Within Thirty Days After Judgment

Section 54. If a person, against whom as trustee execution has been issued, is not living at the expiration of thirty days after final judgment in the trustee process, a demand, for the purpose of holding the attachment, may be made upon the executor or administrator of such deceased person within thirty days after his appointment, and shall have the same effect as if made within thirty days after the judgment.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 55 - Service of Execution

Section 55. If an executor or administrator as such is adjudged a trustee, the execution shall not be served on his own goods or estate nor on his person, and he shall be liable for the amount in his hands only in like manner and to the same extent as he would have been liable to the defendant if there had been no trustee process.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 56 - Failure of Executor or Administrator to Pay Amount Charged; Remedies

Section 56. If, after final judgment against an executor or administrator for a sum certain due from him as trustee, he fails to pay the same, the original plaintiff in the trustee process shall have the same remedy for recovering the amount, either upon a suggestion of waste or by an action on the administration bond, as the defendant in the trustee process would have had upon a judgment recovered by himself for the same demand against the executor or administrator.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 57 - Proceedings if Trustee Is Charged for Specific Property

Section 57. If a person is charged as trustee by reason of personal property other than money, which he holds or is bound to deliver to the defendant, he shall deliver it, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the officer holding the execution, who shall sell the property and apply and account for the proceeds in the same manner as if the property had been taken on execution.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 58 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 58 - Determination of Value of Property Delivered

Section 58. The value of any property so delivered shall be ascertained and fixed, as between the trustee and defendant, in like manner and upon the same principles as if delivered to the defendant. Upon application of either party, the court may, pending the original action or civil action under section forty-five, determine the value, and make any other order relative to such property and to the delivery thereof necessary or proper to protect the rights of the trustee or of the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 59 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 59 - Delivery of Specific Property According to Contract

Section 59. If a person summoned as trustee is bound by contract to deliver specific property to the defendant at a certain time and place within the commonwealth, he shall not be required by reason of the trustee process to deliver it at any other time or place; and he may, notwithstanding such process, tender or deliver it to the person entitled thereto under the contract at the time and place therein mentioned, unless he has been previously adjudged a trustee on account thereof.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 60 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 60 - Property Held by Trustee as Security; Tender by Attaching Creditor

Section 60. If the court finds that property in the hands of a person summoned as trustee is mortgaged, pledged or in any way liable for the payment of a debt to the person so summoned, it may allow the attaching creditor to pay or tender the amount due to the trustee, who shall thereupon deliver the property, in the manner before provided, to the officer holding the execution.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 61 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 61 - Property Held for Other Than Security Purposes

Section 61. If the court finds that the property is held for any purpose other than to secure the payment of money and that the contract, condition or other thing to be performed is such that it can be performed by the attaching creditor without damage to the other parties, it may make an order for the performance thereof by him. Upon such performance, or upon a tender, the trustee shall deliver the property, in the manner before provided, to the officer holding the execution.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 62 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 62 - Property Received by Officer; Disposal; Proceeds

Section 62. Property received by an officer under either of the two preceding sections shall be sold and disposed of as if it had been taken on execution, except that from the proceeds of the sale the officer shall repay to the attaching creditor the amount paid by him to the trustee for the redemption of the property, with interest thereon, or shall indemnify the creditor for any other act or thing by him done or performed pursuant to the order of the court for the redemption of the property.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 63 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 63 - Sale by Trustee of Property Held for Security

Section 63. The preceding sections shall not prevent the trustee from selling the property in his hands for payment of the claim for which it is mortgaged, pledged or otherwise liable at any time before the amount due him is paid or tendered as provided in section sixty or sixty-one, if such sale would be valid as between him and the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 64 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 64 - Failure of Trustee to Deliver Property

Section 64. If a trustee refuses or neglects to deliver any property in his hands when lawfully required by the officer serving the execution, he shall, after deducting the amount of any lien he has on such property, be liable to the plaintiff in a proceeding under section forty-five.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 65 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 65 - Common Carriers as Trustees; Liability for Nondelivery

Section 65. When a common carrier, summoned as trustee in a civil action, has in his or its possession goods shipped by or consigned to a defendant in such action, such carrier, in the absence of collusion or fraud on his or its part, shall not, except as otherwise provided in chapter one hundred and eight, be held liable to the owner or consignee by reason of his or its failure to transport and to deliver said goods, until the attachment is dissolved or the carrier is discharged as trustee.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 66 - Bonds; Persons Entitled to File

Section 66. A person having an interest by assignment or otherwise in money or credits attached by the trustee process in an action against another may, at any time before final judgment, dissolve such attachment or a part thereof by giving bond, in a sum not exceeding the damages demanded, with sufficient sureties to be approved in writing by the plaintiff or his attorney, by a master in chancery or by a justice of a court, if the attachment is made within the jurisdiction thereof, conditioned to pay to the plaintiff, within thirty days after final judgment or after a special judgment entered under section twenty-five of chapter two hundred and thirty-five, the amount for which the trustee may be charged, not exceeding the value of the property in his hands, or so much thereof as will satisfy the amount which may be recovered by the plaintiff. If there are several trustees, such bonds may be made to apply to one or more. The provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-five and one hundred and twenty-six of chapter two hundred and twenty-three, relative to notice, hearing, fees and the filing of the bond, shall apply to bonds given under this section.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 67 - Delivery of Property by Trustee; Limitation of Action on Bond

Section 67. After the filing of such bond, the trustee may deliver to the person by whom or in whose behalf as principal the bond was given the money or other thing in his hands, or that part thereof to which the bond applies, and shall not after such delivery be liable to the plaintiff therefor, nor shall any execution therefor issue against him. No action on such bond shall be commenced after the expiration of six years from the date thereof.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 68 - Allowable to Trustee

Section 68. A person summoned as a trustee in the supreme judicial or superior court, who appears and answers pursuant to this chapter, shall be allowed his costs for travel and term fees, and such further amount for counsel fees and other necessary expenses as the court may allow; if summoned in a district court, he shall be allowed the costs fixed by section twenty-six of chapter two hundred and sixty-one. If there has been a trial between the plaintiff and the alleged trustee upon an issue of fact, the court may award costs to either party.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 69 - Payable Out of Effects

Section 69. If a person is adjudged a trustee, his costs and charges shall be deducted from the goods, effects and credits in his hands, and he shall be chargeable for the balance only to be paid on the execution. If such goods, effects and credits are not of sufficient value to discharge the costs taxed in his favor, he shall have judgment and execution against the plaintiff for the balance of such costs, after deducting the amount disclosed, in the same manner as if he had been discharged.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 70 - Payable by Plaintiff

Section 70. If a person summoned as trustee is discharged, he shall have judgment and execution for his costs and charges against the plaintiff.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 71 - Persons Absent From Commonwealth

Section 71. If a person so summoned is out of the commonwealth at the time of service of process upon him and appears and answers within ten days of his return, he shall be allowed his costs and charges.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 72 - Persons Out of County

Section 72. If a person so summoned does not dwell or have a usual place of business in the county where the action is brought, he shall, if he appears at any time in the original action or in a proceeding under section forty-five, be allowed his costs and charges, which shall be retained or recovered as before provided.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 73 - Trustees Neglecting to Appear; Liability for Costs

Section 73. A person so summoned, who dwells or has a usual place of business in the county where the action is brought and who neglects, without sufficient reason, to appear and answer within the time provided, shall be liable, if the plaintiff recovers judgment and does not otherwise receive his costs, for all costs for the plaintiff's travel and term fees until he appears.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 74 - Recovery of Costs

Section 74. If a person so summoned does not pay the costs when demanded by the officer serving the execution, the officer shall state the fact in his return, and if it also appears by the return that the costs have not been paid, the court shall award a new execution against him for the costs.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 75 - Several Trustees; Liability for Costs

Section 75. If several persons are summoned as trustees who are liable for costs under any provision of the two preceding sections, the second execution shall be awarded against them jointly; and if any one pays more than his proportion, the others shall contribute equally to indemnify him for the excess.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 76 - Actions Against Trustees

Section 76. If, while an action by the trustee process is pending, the original defendant therein or any other person brings an action against the alleged trustee to recover the goods, effects or credits or any part thereof in his hands or possession, costs in the later action shall be in the discretion of the court.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 77 - Action Against Defaulting Trustee; Liability for Costs

Section 77. If a person summoned as trustee, who dwells or has a usual place of business in the county where the action is brought, is defaulted in the original action, and if a proceeding under section forty-five is brought against him, he shall be liable out of his own goods and estates for all costs in such proceeding, although he is not adjudged a trustee, except as provided in the following sections.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 78 - Action Against Defaulting Trustee; Costs, Nonliability, Recovery Precluded

Section 78. He shall not be liable for costs under section seventy-seven, nor shall he be entitled to recover costs, if the court finds that he had goods, effects or credits in his hands liable to attachment, and has paid and delivered, on the execution issued on the original judgment, the full amount thereof.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 79 - Action Against Defaulting Trustee; Costs, Nonliability, Recovery

Section 79. He shall not be liable for costs under section seventy-seven if he was prevented from appearing in the original action by his absence from the commonwealth or by any other sufficient cause, but the court may allow him his costs as if he had appeared in the original action.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 80 - Action Against Defaulting Trustee; Execution Against Trustee for Costs

Section 80. If a person summoned as trustee is held liable to pay from his own estate the costs as before provided, and if he is at the same time liable for the plaintiff's costs in the original action, one execution shall be issued against him for both amounts.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 81 - Action Against Several Defaulting Trustees; Liability for Costs

Section 81. If several trustees are liable in an action brought under section forty-five and the plaintiff fails to join all of the trustees in one action, he shall recover no more costs than if he had so joined them, and the court may apportion the costs among all the trustees liable therefor.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 82 - Adverse Claimants

Section 82. If an adverse claimant is admitted as a party, the court may award costs between him, the plaintiff and the supposed trustee, or any of them.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 83 - Costs Where Damages Less Than Ten Dollars

Section 83. If the damages recovered in an action brought under trustee process do not exceed ten dollars, exclusive of all costs in any former action, the plaintiff shall recover no costs.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 1 - Distrained or Impounded Beasts

Section 1. A person whose beasts have been distrained or impounded in order to recover a penalty or forfeiture supposed to have been incurred by their going at large or to obtain satisfaction for damages alleged to have been done by them may cause them to be replevied.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 2 - Bond

Section 2. Before the officer serving the writ delivers the beasts to the plaintiff, he shall take from the plaintiff or a person in his behalf a bond payable to the defendant in a sum equal to double the value of the beasts, with sufficient sureties, conditioned to prosecute the replevin to final judgment and to pay such damages and costs as the defendant shall recover and to return the beasts if such shall be the final judgment.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 3 - Amount of Bond; Appraisal of Property

Section 3. The writ shall require that the bond be given for double the value of the beasts but shall not express the amount for which it shall be given. If the parties do not agree as to the value of the beasts, it shall be ascertained by three disinterested appraisers, who shall be appointed and sworn by the officer, and the penalty of the bond shall be double the value ascertained by such appraisers or by a majority of them.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 4 - Return of Writ

Section 4. The officer shall return such bond with the writ to the court to which the writ is returnable, for the use of the defendant; and he shall include in his return, endorsed on the writ, a certificate of the appointment of the appraisers, of the appraisal and of the expenses thereof.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 5 - Judgment for Defendant

Section 5. If the court finds that the beasts were lawfully taken or distrained, the defendant shall have judgment for the amount found to be due from the plaintiff for the penalty or forfeiture or for the damages for which the beasts were impounded, with the legal fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred by reason of the distress, and with the costs of the action of replevin; or, instead thereof, the court may render a judgment for a return of the beasts, to be held by the defendant irrepleviable by the plaintiff, and for the damages for the taking of the beasts by the replevin and for the defendant's costs. If so returned, the beasts shall be held and disposed of as if they had not been replevied.
MA Gen L ch 247 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 247 - Replevin|Section 6 - Judgment for Plaintiff

Section 6. If the court finds that the beasts were unlawfully taken or distrained, the plaintiff shall have judgment for damages caused by such taking and detaining and for costs.