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MA Gen L ch 223 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 76 - Excessive Demands; Penalty

Section 76. If the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, demands and receives more than the amount due to him, he shall be liable to the attaching creditor for the excess, with interest thereon at the rate of twelve per cent a year.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 77 - Proceeds of Sale; Payment of Creditors

Section 77. If property which has been attached and redeemed by the attaching creditor, as aforesaid, is sold on mesne process or on execution, the proceeds thereof, after deducting the charges of the sale, shall be first applied to repay to the attaching creditor the amount so paid by him, with interest.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 78 - Redemption of Mortgage; Duty of Debtor to Repay Redemption Price

Section 78. If the attaching creditor, after having redeemed the property, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the debtor repays to him the amount or amounts which he paid for the redemption, or as much thereof as the debtor would have been obliged to pay to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, or any of them, if the property had not been attached, with interest from the time when it was demanded of the debtor.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 79 - Holder of Encumbrance; Summoning; Examination

Section 79. Personal property upon which a mortgage or lien is claimed, or which is claimed to have been sold under a contract of conditional sale reserving title in the vendor, may be attached as if unencumbered; and the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, may be summoned in the same action in which the property is attached as the trustee of the mortgagor, pledgor, lienee or conditional vendee, or his assigns, to answer such questions as may be put to him by the court or by its order relative to the consideration of the alleged mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale, and the amount due thereon.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 80 - Amount Due; Determination

Section 80. If, upon such examination, or, upon the verdict of a jury as provided in section eighty-one, it appears that the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale is valid, the court, having first ascertained the amount justly due upon it, may direct the attaching creditor to pay the same to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, within such time as it orders; and if he does not pay or tender the amount within the time prescribed the attachment shall be void and the property shall be restored.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 81 - Validity of Mortgage; Determination

Section 81. If the attaching creditor denies the validity of the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale, and moves that its validity be tried by jury, the court shall order such trial upon an issue which shall be framed under its direction. If, upon such examination or verdict, the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale is adjudged valid, the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, shall recover his costs.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 82 - Creditor to Retain Amount Paid by Him

Section 82. When the creditor has paid to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, the amount ordered by the court, he may retain out of the proceeds of the property attached, when sold, the amount so paid with interest, and the balance shall be applied to the payment of his debt.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 83 - Creditor; Right to Hold Property Until Repaid Upon Failure to Recover Judgment

Section 83. If the attaching creditor, after having paid the amount ordered by the court, does not recover judgment, he may nevertheless hold the property until the debtor has repaid with interest the amount so paid.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 83a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 83a - Application of Secs. 74 to 83

Section 83A. Sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to security interests in personal property which are recordable under section nine—four hundred and one (1)(b) of chapter one hundred and six.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 84 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 84 - Insufficient Service of Process; Dismissal of Action or Further Service

Section 84. If in a civil action the defendant makes a motion to dismiss the action for insufficient service of process, the court may dismiss the action without prejudice or may quash the process and allow the issuance and service of new process in accordance with the applicable rules of court.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 86a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 86a - Equitable Attachments; Allowance After Entry of Judgment

Section 86A. Upon motion of the plaintiff at any time after entry of a judgment in his favor in the supreme judicial court, superior court, housing court of the city of Boston, western division of the housing court department, the northeastern division of the housing court department, the southeastern division of the housing court depart mentor housing court of the county of Worcester but before the expiration of the time to appeal therefrom or, if an appeal is claimed, during the pendency thereof, such court shall have jurisdiction by appropriate procedure and process to cause to be reached, held and thereafter applied in payment of any such judgment or decree in his favor in such action or suit the same kind of property, right, title or interest, legal or equitable, of a defendant, within or without the commonwealth, which may be reached and applied under clauses (6) and (7) of section three of chapter two hundred and fourteen, and any property, right, title or interest, legal or equitable, real or personal, including any shares or interests in corporations organized under the laws of the commonwealth or of the United States, and located or having a general office in the commonwealth, fraudulently conveyed by the defendant with intent to defeat, delay or defraud his creditors or to defeat or delay the plaintiff in the satisfaction of his claim, or purchased, or directly or indirectly paid for, by him, the record or other title to which is retained in the vendor or is conveyed to a third person with intent to defeat, delay or defraud the creditors of the defendant or to defeat or delay the plaintiff in the satisfaction of his claim; provided, that, in reaching and applying hereunder the interest of a partner in partnership property, the business of the partnership shall not been joined or otherwise interrupted further than to restrain the withdrawal of any portion of the defendant's share or interest therein until final judgment or decree in such action or suit. If such equitable relief is granted, the defendant may give to the plaintiff a sufficient bond payable to him with sureties approved by the court conditioned to pay him the amount of his judgment within thirty days of the date when execution may issue upon such judgment, and, upon the filing of such bond with the clerk, the court shall proceed no further in the proceedings to reach and apply and any injunction previously issued in the course of such proceedings shall be dissolved.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 87 - Sale of Attached Personal Property

Section 87. Personal property which has been attached on one or more writs may, if the debtor and all the attaching creditors consent in writing, subject to sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, be sold by the attaching officer in the manner provided by law for selling like property on execution; and the proceeds of the sale, after deducting the necessary charges, shall be held by the officer subject to the attachments and be disposed of as the property would have been held and disposed of had it remained unsold.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 88 - Perishable Property; Appraisal and Sale

Section 88. If an attachment is made of animals or of goods which are liable to perish, waste or greatly decrease in value by keeping, or which cannot be kept without great and disproportionate expense, and the parties do not consent to a sale thereof as before provided, the property so attached shall, subject to sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, upon the application of either of the parties interested to the attaching officer, be examined, appraised and sold or otherwise disposed of in the manner following.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 89 - Perishable Property; Appraisal and Sale; Proceedings

Section 89. Upon such application, the attaching officer shall give notice to all the other parties or their attorneys, prepare a schedule of the goods and cause three disinterested persons acquainted with the nature and value of such goods to be appointed and sworn before a magistrate or the attaching officer to the faithful performance of their duty as appraisers.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 90 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 90 - Absent Defendant; Notice

Section 90. If the defendant is not within the commonwealth and has no attorney therein, the notice in writing shall be left at his last and usual place of abode, if any, in the commonwealth; otherwise, it shall be delivered to, or left at the dwelling house or place of business of, the person who had possession of the property at the time of the attachment.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 91 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 91 - Appraisers; Manner of Appointment

Section 91. One appraiser shall be appointed by the creditor or creditors in the several actions, one by the debtor or debtors, and one by the officer; and if the debtors or creditors, respectively, neglect to appoint such appraiser, or do not agree in the nomination, the officer shall appoint one in their behalf.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 92 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 92 - Perishable Property; Sale After Appraisal

Section 92. The appraisers shall examine the attached property and, if in their opinion it, or a part thereof, is liable to perish or waste or to greatly decrease in value by keeping or cannot be kept without great and disproportionate expense, they shall appraise the value thereof and the property shall thereupon be sold by the officer and the proceeds held and disposed of as provided in section eighty-seven, unless the goods are taken by the debtor as provided in the following section.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 93 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 93 - Perishable Property; Delivery to Debtor; Condition

Section 93. The property so appraised shall, if he requires it, be delivered to the debtor upon his depositing with the attaching officer the appraised value thereof in money, or upon giving bond to the officer in a sufficient sum, with two sufficient sureties, conditioned to pay to him the appraised value of the property or to satisfy all such judgments as may be recovered in the actions in which the property was attached, if demanded within the time during which the property would have been held by the respective attachments or within thirty days after the time when the creditors, respectively, would have been entitled to demand payment out of the proceeds of the property if it had been sold as before provided.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 94 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 94 - Bond; Duty to Return With Writs

Section 94. The officer who takes such bond shall return it with the writ on which the first attachment is made in like manner as bail bonds are returned, with a certificate of his doings therein; and if the bond is forfeited, any of the attaching creditors may bring an action thereon.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 95 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 95 - Action on Bond; Executions for Costs Against Attaching Creditors

Section 95. If judgment is rendered for the defendants in an action on such bond, executions for the costs shall be issued against the attaching creditors by whom the action was brought.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 97 - Action on Bond; Distribution of Money by Court

Section 97. The court may, upon a hearing, determine the rights of the several attaching creditors and award a separate execution for the amount due or payable to each, to be served and levied to his own use in the manner provided when a judgment is rendered on an administration bond; or it may award one execution for the whole amount due on the bond and cause the money received to be distributed among the creditors according to their respective rights.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 98 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 98 - Action on Bond; Protection of Prior Attachments

Section 98. No judgment or execution shall be awarded for the use of a creditor without reserving as much as may be due upon any prior attachment, whether the creditor in such prior action is or is not one of those by whom the action on the bond is brought.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 99 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 99 - Action on Bond; Right of Creditor Not Joining

Section 99. A creditor who is entitled to the benefit of the bond, and who has not joined in bringing the action thereon may, upon motion at any time before final judgment, intervene in the action upon terms.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 100 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 100 - Action on Bond; Limitation

Section 100. No creditor whose cause of action on such bond accrued more than one year before the commencement of the action shall have judgment or execution.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 101 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 101 - Creditors; Payment and Satisfaction

Section 101. If property which has been sold, or appraised and delivered to the debtor, in the manner before provided is attached by several creditors, any one of them may demand and receive satisfaction of his judgment, notwithstanding a prior attachment, if he is otherwise entitled to demand the money, and if a sufficient amount of the proceeds of the property, or of its appraised value, remains to satisfy all prior attachments.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 102 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 102 - Appraisal at Request of Part Owner

Section 102. If personal property of two or more part owners is attached in an action against one or more of them, it shall, upon the request of any other part owner, be examined and appraised in the manner provided in sections eighty-eight to ninety-two, inclusive, except that the part owner who makes the application shall, and the debtor shall not, appoint one of the appraisers. This section shall not apply to partnership property.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 103 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 103 - Delivery to Part Owner; Conditions Precedent

Section 103. The property so appraised shall be delivered to the part owner at whose request it was appraised, upon his giving bond to the attaching officer in a sufficient sum, with two sufficient sureties, conditioned to restore such property in like good order or to pay to the officer the appraised value of the defendant's share or interest therein, or to satisfy all such judgments as may be recovered in the action in which it is attached, if demanded within the time during which the property would have been held by the respective attachments. Sections ninety-four to one hundred, inclusive, shall apply to such bond and to an action thereon.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 104 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 104 - Pledge of Property

Section 104. If such appraised value or any part thereof is so paid, the defendant's share of the property shall thereby become pledged to the party to whom it was delivered, and he may sell it, if not redeemed, and shall account to the defendant for the remaining proceeds of the sale.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 105 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 105 - Restoration

Section 105. If the attachment is dissolved, the party to whom the defendant's share was delivered shall restore it to the defendant, or to the officer, to be by him delivered to the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 106 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 106 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment: Application

Section 106. If real or personal property has been attached in an action, any person, other than the parties, who claims title or interest therein by a subsequent attachment, purchase, mortgage or other title, may dispute the validity and effect of such prior attachment on the ground that the amount demanded in the first action was not justly due or was not payable when it was commenced, by filing a petition in the court in which the first action is pending, at any time before final judgment therein, stating the facts and circumstances on which his petition is founded, and the grounds of his own claim, and praying that the prior attachment may be dissolved.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 107 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 107 - Affidavit and Bond

Section 107. The petitioner, or a person in his behalf, shall make oath that his claim is just and legal and that all the other facts stated in the petition are true or are believed by the deponent to be true; and, upon filing the petition, the petitioner, or a person in his behalf, shall give a bond or recognizance with sufficient surety, conditioned to pay to the adverse party such damages and costs as may be awarded to him upon the petition.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 108 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 108 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment; Finding of Court

Section 108. If the court finds that a part of the amount demanded in the prior action is not justly due, or was not payable when the action was commenced, it shall order the attachment dissolved in whole or in part as justice requires; but such order shall have no other effect on the prior action. If the hearing is in the supreme judicial or superior court, the court shall, upon motion, order a jury trial of any question of fact.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 109 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 223 - Commencement of Actions, Service of Process|Section 109 - Dissolution of Prior Attachment; Effect of Pleadings

Section 109. The proceedings between the adverse claimants or plaintiffs shall not be affected by any pleading or other act of the defendant in the prior action nor by the judgment rendered therein.