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MA Gen L ch 236 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 12 - Land Held Jointly or in Common; Levy Upon

Section 12. If land is held by a debtor in joint tenancy or as a tenant in common, the share thereof belonging to the debtor may be taken on execution, and shall thereafter be held in common with the co-tenant. If the whole share of the debtor is more than sufficient to satisfy the execution, the levy shall be made upon such undivided portion of such share as will, in the opinion of the appraisers, satisfy the execution, and such undivided portion shall be held in common with the debtor and the other co-tenant.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 13 - Land Incapable of Division; Levy Upon

Section 13. If the land levied upon cannot be divided without damage to the whole and is more than sufficient to satisfy the execution, the levy shall be made upon such undivided portion of the whole as will, in the opinion of the appraisers, satisfy the execution, and such undivided portion shall be held in common with the debtor.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 14 - Life Estates; Levy Upon

Section 14. A life estate may be taken and set off to the creditor like other land at the appraised value or, at the election of the creditor, the execution may be levied on the rents and profits.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 15 - Rents and Profits; Levy Upon; Expiration of Life Estates

Section 15. If execution is levied on rents and profits, the annual value thereof shall be determined by the appraisers, and the land shall be set off to the creditor for such time as will satisfy the execution at the rate of rents and profits as determined by the appraisers, if the life estate endures so long, computing interest on the amount due on the execution and deducting the rents and profits as they accrue as so much paid from time to time. If the life estate expires before the end of the term so fixed, the creditor may have a new action on the judgment to recover the amount then due thereon.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 16 - Leased Land; Levy Upon

Section 16. If the land levied upon is under lease to a third person, and the reversion of the whole is taken on the execution, the lessee shall pay to the creditor the rent accruing after the levy, except such part as he has paid before notice of the levy.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 17 - Levy on Leased Land Where Reversion of Part Only Is Taken

Section 17. If the land is under lease as aforesaid and the reversion of a part only is taken, the appraisers shall determine the portion of the whole annual rent to be paid to the creditor, and the lessee shall pay it to him.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 18 - Homestead Property; Levy of Execution

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 395, Sec. 3.]  Section 18. If a judgment creditor requires an execution to be levied on property which is claimed by the debtor to be as a homestead exempt from such levy and if the officer holding such execution is of the opinion that the premises are of greater value than an amount equal to either the automatic homestead exemption or the declared homestead exemption, as applicable, as defined in section 1 of chapter 188, appraisers shall be appointed to appraise the property in the manner provided by section 6. If in the judgment of the appraisers the premises are of greater value than the amount of either the automatic homestead exemption or the declared homestead exemption, as applicable, the appraisers shall set off to the judgment debtor so much of the premises, including the dwelling house, in whole or in part, as shall appear to them to be of the value of the amount of the exemption and the residue of the property shall be levied upon and disposed of in like manner as land not exempt from levy on execution; provided, however, that if the property levied on is subject to a mortgage, it may be set off or sold subject to the mortgage and to the estate of homestead in the same manner as land subject to a mortgage only.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 19 - Delivery of Seisin to Creditor; Debtor's Rights in Remainder, Etc.

Section 19. An officer serving an execution shall deliver to the creditor or to his attorney seisin and possession of the land taken thereon, so far as the nature of the estate and the title of the debtor will admit; but if the estate taken is a remainder, reversion or right of redemption, the officer shall not oust the person lawfully in possession of the land, but shall assign to the creditor the right which the debtor had therein, and make his return accordingly.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 20 - Momentary Seisin

Section 20. If an execution is levied on land of which a person other than the debtor is actually seized, the officer shall deliver to the creditor or to his attorney such momentary seisin and possession thereof as will enable the creditor to maintain an action therefor upon his own seisin; but the officer shall not oust the tenant then in possession.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 21 - Return and Record of Execution

Section 21. The officer shall return the execution, with a certificate of his doings endorsed thereon, to the court to which it is returnable, and such execution and certificate shall be forthwith recorded. The officer shall also, within three months after the levy has been completed, cause the execution and return to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 22 - Record as Prima Facie Evidence

Section 22. Such record in the registry of deeds of an execution issued by a district court, and of the levy thereon, shall be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the judgment and prior proceedings in the case.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 23 - Officer's Return; Requisites

Section 23. The return of the officer on the execution shall, in addition to the other requirements of law, set forth substantially—  First, The time when the land was taken on execution;  Second, Either that the appraisers were appointed by the officer, the creditor and the debtor, or that the debtor was absent from, or not resident in, the commonwealth and had no agent or attorney known to the officer, or neglected to appoint an appraiser, and the officer appointed one for him;  Third, That the appraisers were duly sworn, unless a certificate of the oath is endorsed on the execution and signed by the person administering it;  Fourth, That they appraised and set off the land at the value stated;  Fifth, That the officer either delivered seisin thereof to the creditor or his attorney, or assigned it to him as provided in the case of a remainder or incorporeal estate;  Sixth, The description of the land unless it is sufficiently described in the certificate of the appraisers and the return refers to and adopts that description; and  Seventh, If the appraisal is signed by only two of the appraisers, that all three of them were present and acted in the appraisal.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 24 - Validity of Levy as Against Subsequent Attaching Creditors and Purchasers

Section 24. If the execution and return are not recorded in the registry of deeds within three months as aforesaid, the levy shall be void as against a creditor who has attached the same land or taken it on execution without notice of such levy, and also as against a purchaser in good faith for value and without such notice; but if such execution and return are recorded after the expiration of the three months, the levy shall be valid and effectual as against a conveyance, attachment or levy made after such recording.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 25 - Levy Valid Against Creditor

Section 25. If the execution and return have not been returned or recorded as aforesaid, the levy shall be so far valid against the creditor that he shall not waive the levy and have a new execution, except as provided in section fifty.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 26 - Levy by Sale; Disposition of Proceeds; Lands Taken on Behalf of Commonwealth

Section 26. Land and rights mentioned in section one and rights of redeeming land sold for the payment of taxes and other assessments may, if the creditor so elects, be sold on execution as provided in the four following sections, and, after satisfying the execution with the costs and charges, the surplus proceeds of the sale shall be applied and disposed of as provided upon a sale of personal property on execution under the preceding chapter. Land or rights taken on an execution in favor of the commonwealth shall in all cases be so sold.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 27 - Conduct of Sale; Effect

Section 27. The officer authorized to serve the execution shall make the sale by public auction to the highest bidder, and convey by deed to the purchaser all the debtor's title to the land or rights so sold. Such deed shall, if the execution with the return thereon has been returned, be valid as against the debtor or any person claiming under him who has actual notice thereof and, if recorded within three months after such sale in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies, shall be valid as against any other person.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 28 - Notice of Sale

Section 28. The officer, thirty days at least before the sale, shall deliver to the debtor, if found within his precinct, a written notice of the time and place of sale and shall post such a notice in a public place in the town where the land lies and also in two adjoining towns, if there are so many in the county. The officer shall also publish such a notice once in each of three successive weeks, the first publication to be not less than twenty-one days before the day of sale, in a newspaper published in the town where the land lies.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 29 - Adjournment of Sale

Section 29. If, at the time appointed for the sale, the officer considers it for the interest of all persons concerned to postpone it, he may adjourn it for not more than seven days, and so from time to time until the sale is completed, giving notice of every such adjournment by a public declaration thereof at the time and place previously appointed for the sale.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 30 - Adjournment by Court

Section 30. Section forty of chapter two hundred and thirty-five relative to adjournment by order of court shall apply to such sales.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 31 - Suspension of Levy; Record; Effect; Liability of Land

Section 31. If land has been seized on execution and further service thereof is suspended by reason of a prior attachment or seizure of the same land, or on the written request of the creditor, the officer making the later seizure shall cause a record thereof to be made in the same manner as an attachment of land on mesne process is recorded. Such record shall be sufficient notice of said seizure, and the levy on such land shall be considered as having been made at the time of such seizure if such record is made within three days thereafter; otherwise, at the time when said record is made. The land shall remain bound by such seizure until set off or sold in whole or in part under the prior attachment or seizure or until that attachment or seizure is dissolved.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 32 - Proceedings After Dissolution of Prior Attachment

Section 32. If land is set off or sold in part under a prior attachment or seizure, or if that attachment or seizure is dissolved, the land or such part thereof as remains undisposed of shall continue bound for thirty days thereafter by the seizure on execution, and service of the execution may be completed as if the land had been first seized thereon within said thirty days, although the return day thereof has passed.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 33 - Right of Redemption; Time; Amount Required; Deed or Release

Section 33. If land or rights have been taken and set off on execution, the debtor may within one year after the levy or, if such land or rights have been sold on execution, within one year after such sale or within the time and upon the terms provided in section forty-seven, redeem the same by paying or tendering to the creditor or purchaser, as the case may be, the amount for which they were so set off or sold, with interest thereon from the time of the levy, all amounts paid for lawful taxes and assessments, reasonable expenses incurred for repairs and improvements and, in case of levy by set-off, all amounts lawfully paid on account of any mortgage or other lien recoverable under section forty-eight, and deducting from such amount in each case the rents and profits received or which might have been received by the creditor or purchaser and with which he is lawfully chargeable. The creditor or purchaser shall thereupon deliver to the debtor a deed of release, prepared by the debtor or at his expense, of the land or rights so taken and set off or sold.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 34 - Ascertainment of Amount Due; Tender

Section 34. The debtor may in all cases cause the amount due for redemption to be ascertained at his own expense by three justices of the peace in the manner following: one of the justices shall be chosen by the debtor, one by the creditor, and one by the two first chosen; or if the creditor neglects to choose one, the justice chosen by the debtor shall appoint the other two. After a hearing before the three justices, they or two of them shall make and sign a certificate of the amount which they adjudge to be due for the redemption of the land, which certificate shall be final and conclusive between the parties. A tender by the debtor of the amount so adjudged to be due shall be a sufficient tender notwithstanding any previous tender.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 35 - Redemption of Mortgage Paid by Creditor or Purchaser

Section 35. If the creditor or, in case of a sale, the purchaser pays the debt due on a mortgage to which the land levied on is subject, the judgment debtor may redeem the mortgage from the creditor or purchaser at the time when, and upon the terms upon which, he might have redeemed it from the mortgagee if no execution had been levied. If the debtor does not so redeem the mortgage, the creditor or purchaser shall hold the land as an assignee of the mortgage and free from any right of redemption, notwithstanding the debtor has redeemed or offered to redeem the right taken on the execution. If the debtor does not within one year after the levy redeem the right taken on the execution, the creditor or purchaser shall hold the land against the debtor, notwithstanding the debtor has redeemed or offered to redeem the mortgage.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 36 - Redemption of Right to Redeem From Tax Sale

Section 36. Rights of redeeming land sold for the payment of taxes or other assessments may, if sold on execution, be redeemed in the same manner as rights of redeeming mortgaged land so sold.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 37 - Redemption Where Levy on Rents and Profits of Life Estate

Section 37. If an execution is levied on rents and profits of a life estate, the debtor may, at any time before the debt with interest thereon is fully satisfied, redeem the same by paying or tendering to the creditor the amount then due to him; and the proceedings relative to such redemption shall be the same as are provided for the redemption of other land.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 38 - Tender; Refusal to Release Land; Remedies

Section 38. If the debtor tenders the amount justly due for redemption, and the creditor or, in case of a sale, the purchaser does not within seven days after the tender release the land as before provided, the debtor may recover it, with costs, in an action to recover a freehold estate against the creditor or purchaser as a disseisor; but before judgment therein is entered for him, he shall bring into court for the use of the creditor or purchaser the amount so tendered.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 39 - Action for Redemption

Section 39. The debtor may, within the year before limited for redemption and irrespective of any tender, bring in the supreme judicial or the superior court in the county where the land lies, a civil action for redemption, under the two following sections.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 40 - Proceedings

Section 40. The debtor shall in his complaint offer to pay the amount found due for redemption and may set forth any tender he has made. The court shall determine the amount due, unless it has been already ascertained under section thirty-four, and shall require the debtor, within such time as it may order, to deposit with the clerk for the use of the creditor or purchaser the amount due for redemption. Upon the debtor's complying with the order, he shall be entitled to judgment and execution for seisin of the land.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 41 - Costs

Section 41. The court may award costs to either party, but the creditor or purchaser shall not be required to pay costs, unless it appears that he has unreasonably neglected to render, when requested, a just and true account of the amount due on the judgment, of the money expended in repairing and improving the land and of the rents and profits thereof; or unless it appears that a sufficient amount was tendered to him for the redemption of the land, and that he neglected for seven days thereafter to execute and deliver a release thereof as before required. If the creditor or purchaser has, before the commencement of the action, tendered such a deed of release and alleges such tender and brings the deed into court to be delivered to the debtor, he shall recover costs.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 42 - Rights of Debtors, Creditors or Purchasers Exercisable by Heirs, Etc.

Section 42. Everything required in this chapter to be done by or to a debtor or by or to a creditor or purchaser relative to the redemption of an estate taken and set off or sold on execution may be done by or to his heirs, assigns, executor, administrator or by or to any person lawfully claiming under him or them, in like manner and with like effect as if done by or to him; except that if an executor or administrator recovers the land, the recovery shall operate only as a discharge of the lien or encumbrance on the land, and the heir or other person entitled thereto shall be seized thereof under his title.