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MA Gen L ch 237 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 25 - Assessment by Assessors

Section 25. In cases where an assessment of the amounts due to the plaintiff for rents and profits and other damages, or a determination of the amount to be allowed to the defendant for improvements, or of the value of the plaintiff's estate is to be made by the land court, such assessment or determination may, if the parties consent, be made by assessors appointed by that court.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 26 - Judgments to Both Parties

Section 26. The defendant shall have judgment upon his counterclaim for the value of the improvements. The plaintiff shall have judgment and execution for the amount found due him for rents and profits and other damages due from the defendant as well as for seisin of the land.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 27 - Excess of Improvements Over Rents and Profits; Effect

Section 27. If the amount found due to the defendant for improvements exceeds the amount found due from him for rents and profits accruing within six years, he shall be chargeable with rents and profits accruing before that time, so far as necessary to balance his judgment for improvements; but in such case he shall not be liable to repay rents and profits in excess of the value of the improvements.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 28 - Payment of Balance Due Defendant

Section 28. The plaintiff shall, except as provided in the following section, before taking out execution for seisin of the land, pay to the defendant, or for his use to the recorder of the land court, the amount, if any, by which the defendant's judgment upon his counterclaim for improvements exceeds the amount recovered against the defendant by the plaintiff upon his claim for rents and profits and other damages; but the defendant or person claiming under him shall not be liable for rents and profits accruing between the date of the judgment and payment by the plaintiff of said amount.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 29 - Writ of Seisin Before Judgment

Section 29. If the plaintiff has had judgment for seisin of the land, he may take out a writ of seisin before judgment has been rendered upon his claim for rents and profits or other damages or upon the defendant's counterclaim for improvements, but if there is pending such a counterclaim, the plaintiff, before taking out his writ of seisin, shall furnish such security or pay into court such amount of money as the land court may order, to secure to the defendant the payment of any amount found due him for such improvements.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 30 - Collection of Balance Due Defendant

Section 30. If the defendant has judgment for such improvements, he may have an execution therefor or he may collect the same, with all reasonable costs and expenses for such collection, out of the security furnished, or may receive it out of the money paid into court and the residue thereof, if any, shall be returned to the plaintiff.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 31 - Valuation Without Considering Improvements

Section 31. If the defendant counterclaims for improvements as before provided the plaintiff may, by motion, require the value of his estate in the land demanded, without the improvements, to be determined as provided for the assessment of rents, profits and improvements. Such value shall be the value which, at the time of assessment, the land would have had if the improvements had not been made by the defendant or a person under whom he claims.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 32 - Relinquishment of Estate; Recording Election

Section 32. After said determination of value the plaintiff may, at the sitting at which judgment is entered for him, enter upon the record his election to relinquish his estate in the land to the defendant at said value; and upon his motion for further time in which to make such election the land court may postpone the entry of judgment without further costs for him.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 33 - Relinquishment of Estate; Effect; Payments by Defendant

Section 33. If the plaintiff elects to relinquish the land as before provided, the defendant shall thenceforth hold all the estate which the plaintiff had therein at the commencement of the action, if he pays said value thereof in three equal instalments on or before the expiration of one, two and three years, respectively, from the time when said election was entered on the record, with interest therefrom on the amount unpaid.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 34 - Nonpayment by Defendant; Effect

Section 34. Said payments shall be made to the plaintiff or for his use to the recorder of the land court; and if the defendant fails to make any such payment within the time limited therefor, the plaintiff may, within three months after default of payment, take out his writ of seisin on the judgment recovered, and shall take and hold the land without allowance for any improvements made thereon.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 35 - Failure of Title to Relinquished Land; Remedies; Notice

Section 35. If the defendant or his heirs or assigns, after the land is so relinquished to him, are evicted therefrom by force of a better title than that of the original plaintiff, the person so evicted may recover in a civil action from such plaintiff, or from his executors, administrators, heirs or devisees under chapter one hundred and ninety-seven, the amount so paid for the land, with lawful interest thereon; but in order to be so entitled to recover, the defendant or those holding under him shall give notice to the person so liable to refund the purchase money of the pendency of the action for the recovery of the land, so that he may offer evidence tending to prove that the original plaintiff had the better title.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 36 - Effect on Mode of Payment

Section 36. If, after judgment for the plaintiff, either party dies before the writ of seisin is executed, or before the case is otherwise settled under this chapter, any money payable by the plaintiff or defendant, respectively, may be paid by him or his executor or administrator, or by a person entitled to the estate under him, to the defendant or plaintiff, respectively, or his executor or administrator.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 37 - Writ of Seisin

Section 37. The writ of seisin issued in such case shall be in the name of the original plaintiff against the original defendant, although either or both of them are dead, and when executed it shall enure to the benefit of the plaintiff or of the person entitled to the land under him, as if it had been executed on the day when the judgment was rendered.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 38 - Recovery by Life Tenant From Remainderman, Etc.

Section 38. If a plaintiff claiming an estate for life only satisfies a judgment upon the defendant's counterclaim for improvements, he or his executor or administrator shall, at the determination of his estate, be paid by the remainderman or reversioner the value of the improvements as they then exist, shall have a lien on the land for said value as if it had been mortgaged for the payment of such value, and may keep possession of the land until such payment is made.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 39 - Amount Due From Remainderman; Determination

Section 39. If the amount due from the remainderman or reversioner is not agreed on by the parties, it may be determined in a civil action brought by the remainderman or reversioner; and the proceedings shall be the same as in a suit for the redemption of a mortgage.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 40 - Limitation on Amount Recoverable

Section 40. The remainderman or reversioner, or those claiming under him, shall not recover from the adverse party the excess, if any, of rents and profits accruing after the determination of the estate for life, over the amount due for the improvements.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 41 - Time for Bringing Action; Limitation

Section 41. The remainderman or reversioner, or those claiming under him, shall be deemed disseized at the determination of the life estate, and the civil action under section thirty-nine and all other remedies by action or entry for the recovery of the land shall be barred as in other cases of disseisin, and the limitation of three years provided for the redemption of a mortgage shall not apply.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 42 - Recording Execution for Possession and Return

Section 42. An officer serving an execution issued upon a judgment for possession shall, within three months after the service, and before the return of the execution into the recorder's office, cause such execution with his return thereon to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land affected thereby lies, and the expense thereof shall be added to his charge for service.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 43 - Actions for Mesne Profits or Damage to Land

Section 43. This chapter shall not prevent the plaintiff from maintaining an action for mesne profits, or for damage done to the land, against any person, except the defendant in the action to regain seisin.
MA Gen L ch 237 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 237 - Writs of Entry|Section 44 - Actions by Mortgagees

Section 44. The provisions of this chapter relative to rents and profits to be recovered, an allowance for improvements made on the land demanded and the value of the land without the improvements shall not apply to an action brought by a mortgagee, his heirs or assigns, against a mortgagor, his heirs or assigns, for the recovery of the land mortgaged.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 1 - Persons Entitled to Summary Process

Section 1. If a forcible entry into land or tenements has been made, if a peaceable entry has been made and the possession is unlawfully held by force, if the lessee of land or tenements or a person holding under him holds possession without right after the determination of a lease by its own limitation or by notice to quit or otherwise, or if a mortgage of land has been foreclosed by a sale under a power therein contained or otherwise, or if a person has acquired title to land or tenements by purchase, and the seller or any person holding under him refuses to surrender possession thereof to the buyer, or if a tax title has been foreclosed by decree of the land court, or if a purchaser, under a written agreement to purchase, is in possession of land or tenements beyond the date of the agreement without taking title to said land as called for by said agreement, the person entitled to the land or tenements may recover possession thereof under this chapter. A person in whose favor the land court has entered a decree for confirmation and registration of his title to land may in like manner recover possession thereof, except where the person in possession or any person under whom he claims has erected buildings or improvements on the land, and the land has been actually held and possessed by him or those under whom he claims for six years next before the date of said decree or was held at the date of said decree under a title which he had reason to believe good.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 1a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 1a - Land or Tenements Used for Residential Purposes; Action by Lessor Under This Chapter to Recover Possession; Conditions and Restrictions

Section 1A. A lessor of land or tenements used for residential purposes may bring an action under this chapter to recover possession thereof before the determination of the lease by its own limitation, subject to the following conditions and restrictions. The tenancy of the premises at issue shall have been created for at least six months duration by a written lease in which a specific termination date is designated, a copy of which, signed by all parties, shall be annexed to the summons. No such action may be initiated before the latest date permitted by the lease for either party to notify the other of his intention to renew or extend the rental agreement, or in any case before thirty days before the designated termination date of the tenancy. The person bringing the action shall notify all defendants by registered mail that he has done so, which notification shall be mailed not later than twenty-four hours after the action is initiated. The person bringing the action shall demonstrate substantial grounds upon which the court could reasonably conclude that the defendant is likely to continue in possession of the premises at issue without right after the designated termination date, which grounds shall be set forth in the writ. No execution for possession may issue in any such action before the day next following the designated termination date of the tenancy. Any action brought pursuant to this section shall conform to and be governed by the provisions of this chapter in all other respects and no remedy or procedure otherwise available to any party, including any stay of execution which the court has discretion to allow, shall be denied solely because the action was brought pursuant to this section.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 2 - Jurisdiction; Venue; Form of Writ

Section 2. Such person may bring an action in the superior court in the county in which the land lies if the plaintiff seeks money damages and there is no reasonable likelihood that recovery by the plaintiff will be less than or equal to $25,000, or such other amount as is ordered from time to time by the supreme judicial court. Where multiple damages are allowed by law, the amount of single damages claimed shall control. Such person may bring an action in the district court in the judicial district in which the land lies.  Such person may bring the action by a writ in the form of an original summons to the defendant to answer to the claim of the plaintiff that the defendant is in possession of the land or tenements in question, describing them, which he holds unlawfully against the right of the plaintiff, and, if rent and use and occupation is claimed, that the defendant owed rent and use and occupation in the amount stated; but, subject to the approval of the supreme judicial court, the judge of the housing court of the city of Boston shall determine the form of the writ in the actions brought in his court. Failure to claim rent and use and occupation in the action shall not bar a subsequent action therefor.  The defendant named in a summary process summons and complaint shall not include any minors, and any such minors' names so included shall be expunged from any court record and electronic docket entry.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 6 - Condition of Bond in Action for Possession After Foreclosure of Mortgage; After Purchase

Section 6. If the action is for the possession of land after foreclosure of a mortgage thereon, the condition of the bond shall be for the entry of the action and payment to the plaintiff, if final judgment is in his favor, of all costs and of a reasonable amount as rent of the land from the day when the mortgage was foreclosed until possession of the land is obtained by the plaintiff. If the action is for possession of land after purchase, the condition of the bond shall be for the entry of the action and payment to the plaintiff, if final judgment is in his favor, of all costs and of a reasonable amount as rent of the land from the day that the purchaser obtained title to the premises until the delivery of possession thereof to him, together with all damage and loss which he may sustain by withholding of possession of the land or tenement demanded, and by any injury done thereto during such withholding with all costs. Upon final judgment for the plaintiff, all money then due to him may be recovered in an action on the bond.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 6a - Condition of Bond After Foreclosure of Tax Title

Section 6A. If the action is for the possession of land after foreclosure of a tax title thereon, the condition of the bond shall be for the entry of the action and payment to the plaintiff, if final judgment is in his favor, of all costs and of a reasonable amount as rent of the land from the day when the tax title was foreclosed until possession of the land is obtained by the plaintiff, and of all damage and loss which he may sustain by the withholding of possession of the land or tenements demanded and by any injury done thereto during such withholding.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 7 - Judgments; Effect

Section 7. The judgment in an action under this chapter shall not be a bar to any action thereafter brought by either party to recover the land or tenements in question, or to recover damages for any trespass thereon; but the amount recovered for rent under section five shall be deducted in any assessment of damages in such subsequent action by the original plaintiff.
MA Gen L ch 239 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 239 - Summary Process for Possession of Land|Section 8 - Three Years Quiet Possession; Effect

Section 8. There shall be no recovery under this chapter of any land or tenements of which the defendant, his ancestors or those under whom he holds the land or tenements have been in quiet possession for three years next before the commencement of the action unless the defendant's estate therein is ended.