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MA Gen L ch 224 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 21 - Supplementary Proceedings; Dismissal; Discharge of Debtor

Section 21. Supplementary proceedings shall be dismissed, and if the debtor or, if a corporation or trust with transferable shares, its officer, trustee or agent, has been imprisoned, he or it shall be discharged from custody, on payment in full to the creditor or his attorney of the amount due on the judgment, with all the costs of the proceedings, or, unless the judgment is upon a bond or recognizance given under the provisions of this chapter, on the giving to the creditor or his attorney of a bond, payable to the creditor, with sufficient surety or sureties, approved by the creditor, his attorney or the court, conditioned that the debtor shall pay to the creditor the amount due on the judgment, with all the costs of the proceedings, within sixty days after the date of giving such bond or within such longer time as the court may allow.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 22 - Habeas Corpus

Section 22. The court may issue a writ of habeas corpus to bring before it for examination or disposition or for the purpose of giving bond, a defendant or debtor, or, in the case of a corporation or trust with transferable shares, its officer, trustee or agent who has been imprisoned under the provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 23 - Process Servers

Section 23. Constables qualified to serve civil process, as well as sheriffs and their deputies, shall have authority to serve any process under this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 24 - Debtors of Commonwealth; Discharge

Section 24. If a debtor committed to prison on a warrant of distress in favor of the commonwealth is unable to pay the debt for which he is imprisoned, he shall be entitled to discharge in like manner as a debtor before a court on supplementary proceedings; and the laws relative to such proceedings so far as applicable shall apply, except as hereinafter provided.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 25 - Debtors of Commonwealth; Examination

Section 25. If he represents to the jailer that he desires to be examined relative to his property and ability to pay, the jailer shall notify the proper court. The court shall thereupon appoint a time and place for the examination of the debtor and notify the district attorney for the district by a notice, which shall be served by giving to him personally, or by leaving at his usual place of abode, thirty days at least before the time appointed for the examination, an attested copy thereof.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 26 - Debtors of Commonwealth; Appointment of Special Counsel

Section 26. If the district attorney does not reside in the town appointed for or is unable to attend the examination, he may appoint counsel in his stead. For such attendance, suitable allowance shall be made by the superior court for the county.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 28 - Persons Committed for Non-Payment of Tax; Manner of Discharge

Section 28. A person who has been committed to jail for the non-payment of a tax, if since his commitment he has not had any property, real or personal, with which he could have paid the tax, may be discharged at any time in the manner provided by section one hundred and forty-six of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, for the discharge of poor prisoners who have been confined for three months for a fine.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 29 - Insolvency or Bankruptcy; Effect

Section 29. If a person arrested on execution becomes an insolvent debtor under the laws of this commonwealth or a bankrupt under the laws of the United States, he shall be discharged upon his application to a district court in the county where the arrest was made, after such notice as the court shall order.
MA Gen L ch 224 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 224 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings in Civil Actions|Section 30 - Adjournments; Attendance of Witnesses

Section 30. In any proceeding under this chapter the court may adjourn the case from time to time, and shall have the same powers relative to all other incidents thereto as other courts have in civil actions; and witnesses duly summoned shall attend as required in civil cases.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 1 - Actions in Personam

Section 1. A personal action shall not be maintained against a person not an inhabitant of the commonwealth unless he or his agent appointed under section five or five A has been served with process in the commonwealth, or unless service has been made upon him outside the commonwealth, as authorized by chapter two hundred and twenty-three A, or unless an effectual attachment of his property within the commonwealth has been made upon a writ of attachment, and in case of such attachment without such service, the judgment shall be valid only to secure the application of the property so attached to the satisfaction of the judgment.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 2 - Counterclaims

Section 2. If an action is brought by a person not an inhabitant of the commonwealth or who cannot be found herein to be served with process, he shall be held to answer to any counterclaim brought against him by the defendant or defendants, if there be more than one, in the former action.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 5 - Agents for Service of Process; Duty to Appoint by Certain Individuals; Penalty

Section 5. Every individual not an inhabitant of the commonwealth and every partnership composed of persons not such inhabitants, having a usual place of business in the commonwealth, temporarily or permanently, or engaged here, temporarily or permanently, and with or without a usual place of business here, in the construction, erection, alteration or repair of a building, bridge, railroad, railway, or structure of any kind, shall, before doing business in the commonwealth, appoint in writing a person who is a citizen and resident thereof to be his or its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful processes against such individual or partnership may be served with like effect as if served on such person or partnership; and said writing or power of attorney shall contain an agreement on the part of the maker that the service of any lawful process on said attorney shall be of the same force and validity as service on such individual or partnership. The power of attorney shall be filed in the office of the state secretary, and copies certified by him shall be taken as sufficient evidence thereof. Such agency shall be continued so long as such individual or partnership does business as aforesaid in commonwealth, and the power of attorney shall not be revoked until a similar power is given to another citizen and resident of the commonwealth and filed as aforesaid. If such individual or partnership fails to appoint an agent and does business in this commonwealth, service of process, in duplicate, may be made upon the state secretary. The secretary shall, upon a payment of a fee of five dollars by the plaintiff, give notice to the defendant of said action by mailing by registered mail, return receipt requested, a copy of the legal process to the defendant's last known address which shall be furnished to the secretary by the plaintiff or his attorney.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 5a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 5a - Appointment of City or Town Clerk as Agent for Service of Process by Certain Non-Residents; Certificate; Notice of Action; Filing

Section 5A. Except as provided in section five, every non-resident doing business in the commonwealth shall file a certificate with the clerk of each city or town where he does business, setting forth his full name, address and place of business and the trade name under which he does business, and also a statement whereby he appoints the clerk of each such city or town, or his successor in office, his true and lawful agent upon whom all lawful processes may be served in any action arising out of such business in this commonwealth. If such person fails to appoint an agent and does business in this commonwealth, service of process may be made upon the clerk of any city or town where such business is conducted. When legal process against any such person is served upon such clerk, a copy of such process shall forthwith be sent by registered mail with a return receipt requested by the plaintiff to the defendant at his last known address. The plaintiff's affidavit of compliance herewith, and the defendant's return receipt, if received by the plaintiff, or other proof of actual notice shall be filed in the case on or before the date on which the defendant's answer must be filed, or within such further time as the court may allow.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 6 - Attachment of Realty; Dismissal of Action Upon Failure of Notice

Section 6. If real property of a non-resident is attached and no personal service is made upon him, the action shall be dismissed unless notice thereof is given, in such manner as the court orders, within one year after the commencement of the action.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 7 - Notice

Section 7. If a defendant in a civil action is absent from the commonwealth or his residence is unknown to the officer serving the summons and complaint, and no personal service has been made on him or his agent appointed under section five, or if the service of process is defective or insufficient by reason of a mistake of the plaintiff or officer as to where or with whom the summons or copy ought to have been left, the court, upon suggestion thereof by the plaintiff, shall order the action to be continued until notice of the action is given in such manner as it may order. If the property of an absent defendant has been attached and the residence of such defendant is known to the plaintiff and no legal service can be made upon him within the commonwealth, except by publication, the court may order personal service to be made on him in such manner as it may direct and, upon proof that service has been so made, such defendant shall be held to answer to the action. If the defendant does not appear, the court may order the action continued and further notice given to him in such manner as it may direct.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 8 - Default

Section 8. If, after such notice, the defendant does not appear within twenty-one days after the day specified therefor, a default shall be entered and judgment rendered against him as provided in section one.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 9 - Bond

Section 9. If judgment in a personal action is rendered under the preceding section upon the default of a defendant who is absent from the commonwealth or whose residence is unknown, the plaintiff shall not take out execution thereon within one year thereafter, unless he files with the clerk of the court a bond payable to the defendant with one or more sureties, approved by the clerk or, upon appeal from his decision as to the sufficiency of the sureties, by a justice of the court rendering the judgment, in a sum equal to double the amount recovered, conditioned to repay the amount so recovered if the judgment is reversed, or so much of the amount as shall be recovered upon a proceeding for relief from judgment brought by the original defendant within one year after the original judgment.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 11 - Execution Levied on Land

Section 11. If the execution in an action under this chapter, except as otherwise provided, is levied on land, no alienation thereof by the original plaintiff shall prevent the defendant from retaking the same or as much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment or order he recovers upon a proceeding for relief from judgment commenced within one year after the original judgment.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 12 - Judgment in Real Actions

Section 12. If the original judgment was for seisin of the land demanded in a real action, the writ of seisin may be issued in favor of the plaintiff without his giving bond; and if the judgment is reversed in whole or in part upon a review or other proceeding, whether sued out or commenced within the year or afterward, the original defendant may have restitution of the land.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 13 - Tort Actions

Section 13. An action of tort against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth at the time of the service of process, shall be conducted with regard to him relative to the service of process, judgment, review thereof and execution as if he were the sole defendant.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 14 - Contract Actions

Section 14. An action of contract against several defendants, any one of whom is in the commonwealth and any other of whom is absent, in which the plaintiff recovers judgment shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter relative to review, giving bond and alienation of land; but judgment shall not be rendered against any such absent defendant, unless under such circumstances as would entitle the plaintiff to judgment if the absent party were the sole defendant.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 15 - Prosecution Against Persons Served; New Action

Section 15. An action of contract against several defendants in which legal service is not made upon all, either by attachment or otherwise, by reason of their absence from the commonwealth or for other sufficient cause, may be prosecuted against those who are duly served with process, without further proceedings against the others. If judgment so rendered against one or more of several joint contractors remains unsatisfied, an action on the same contract may be maintained against any of the other joint contractors in like manner as if the contract had been joint and several.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 16 - Real Actions; Absence of One of Several Defendants

Section 16. Real actions against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth, shall be conducted relative to him as if he were the sole defendant.
MA Gen L ch 227 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 227 - Proceedings Against Absent Defendants and Upon Insufficient Service|Section 17 - Mixed Actions

Section 17. The provisions of this chapter relative to judgment, bond and review in actions of tort shall apply to a mixed action if the defendant or one of several defendants is absent from the commonwealth, but, as to the service of process and notice to the defendant, it shall be conducted as a real action.
MA Gen L ch 228 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 228 - Survival of Actions and Death and Disabilities of Parties|Section 1 - Enumeration

Section 1. In addition to the actions which survive by the common law, the following shall survive:—  (1) Actions under chapter two hundred and forty-seven;  (2) Actions of tort (a) for assault, battery, imprisonment or other damage to the person; (b) for consequential damages arising out of injury to the person and consisting of expenses incurred by a husband, wife, parent or guardian for medical, nursing, hospital or surgical services in connection with or on account of such injury; (c) for goods taken or carried away or converted; or (d) for damage to real or personal property; and  (3) Actions against sheriffs for the misconduct or negligence of themselves or their deputies.
MA Gen L ch 228 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 228 - Survival of Actions and Death and Disabilities of Parties|Section 2 - Death of Party in Suit Against Officer

Section 2. An action of replevin or tort by or against an officer for personal property attached by him and claimed or taken by another person shall not be abated by the death of any party, but may be prosecuted by or against his executor or administrator.
MA Gen L ch 228 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 228 - Survival of Actions and Death and Disabilities of Parties|Section 3 - Judgment for or Against Executor or Administrator of Officer

Section 3. If judgment in such case is rendered for the executor or administrator of the officer, the property or money recovered shall be disposed of in the same manner as it ought to have been by the officer if he had recovered the same; but if judgment is rendered against such executor or administrator, the property shall be returned or delivered or the damages recovered shall be paid in full by him, if there is sufficient property therefor, although the estate of the deceased is insolvent.
MA Gen L ch 228 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 228 - Survival of Actions and Death and Disabilities of Parties|Section 4 - Death of Sole Plaintiff or Defendant

Section 4. In a personal action the cause of which survives, if there is only one plaintiff or one defendant and he dies after the commencement of the action and before final judgment, the action may proceed and be prosecuted by or against his executor or administrator, and if the action, or an appeal therein, has not been entered prior to his death, it may be entered thereafter.
MA Gen L ch 228 § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 228 - Survival of Actions and Death and Disabilities of Parties|Section 4a - Substitution of Executor or Administrator

Section 4A. In civil actions which are governed by the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure or the District-Municipal Courts Rules of Civil Procedure, in such substitution of the executor or administrator shall be in accordance with said rules.