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MA Gen L ch 223 § 45 (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 45 - Property of Newspaper Offices

Section 45. The press, type, stands, cases, paper and other personal property used in printing and publishing newspapers shall not, within forty-eight hours previous to the issue of any edition of a newspaper, be attached upon mesne process unless the officer who makes the attachment has, at least twenty-four hours previously thereto, demanded of the owners or managers thereof other property, upon which to make it, equal in value to the amount of the attachment and such owners and managers have refused or neglected to comply with such demand. Such attachment shall be void unless the officer certifies in his return that he has made such demand, the time when it was made and that it has not been complied with. Such attachment, made after such demand, shall take effect from the time demand was made, so as to take priority of any mortgage, pledge, conveyance or attachment made subsequent to such demand.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 45a (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 45a - Attaching Officer; Powers to Require Security

Section 45A. If there is reasonable doubt as to the ownership of personal property or as to its liability to be attached on mesne process, before or after the attachment has been made, the officer may require sufficient security from the plaintiff to indemnify him for attaching or continuing to hold the same. If sufficient security is not furnished within a reasonable time after the officer has made a written demand upon the plaintiff or his attorney, the officer may refuse to attach such property or, if he has attached it, may release it from attachment, without liability to the plaintiff therefor. Any premium paid by the plaintiff to a surety company on a bond given as security under this section may, in the discretion of the court, be taxed as costs if he prevails in the action in which the attachment is made.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 47 (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 47 - Successive Attachments on Different Writs

Section 47. Personal property which has been attached or taken on execution by a constable may be further attached or taken on execution by a deputy sheriff or other competent officer, upon any writ of attachment or execution which such constable is not qualified to serve; and thereupon such constable shall make return upon and deliver his writ or execution, with the possession of the property, to such deputy sheriff or other officer, who shall complete the service thereof. If such writ of attachment has been returned into court, the constable shall file in the case a certificate of the fact of such surrender of possession.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 48 (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 48 - Keeper; Appointment; Costs

Section 48. An officer directed to make an attachment of personal property may, if the writ bears an endorsement signed by a justice, associate justice or special justice of the court in which the action is commenced and stating that, in his opinion, the appointment of a keeper is necessary, appoint a keeper of such property at or after the time of making such attachment. No writ shall be so endorsed unless the plaintiff, in support of his application for said appointment, shall first have filed an affidavit stating the facts which require such appointment. The officer, if necessary, may appoint a keeper of personal property which has been taken on execution. In either of the aforesaid cases he shall, upon the written request of the defendant, remove such property or the keeper without unreasonable delay. Costs in an action in which a keeper has been appointed shall be at the discretion of the court.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 49 (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 49 - Attached Personalty; Keeping on Owner's Premises

Section 49. Personal property which has been attached may, subject to the preceding section, be kept on the premises where it is found, unless the owner or occupant of the premises in writing requests the officer to remove his keeper therefrom; and if the defendant in writing requests the officer to allow property which has been attached on the premises of the defendant to remain there until he may give bond to dissolve the attachment, the property shall not be removed until he has had reasonable opportunity to give such bond.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 50 (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 50 - Bulky Goods

Section 50. If an attachment is made of articles of personal property which, by reason of their bulk or for other cause, cannot be immediately removed, a certified copy of the writ of attachment together with a certified copy of the officer's endorsement on the original writ of attachment of the date or dates of the executing of the writ, may, within three days after the attachment, be deposited in the office of the state secretary where filing would be required to perfect a security interest in such goods under article 9 of chapter 106 as if the debtor were located in the commonwealth under section 9–307 of said chapter 106. If the goods are fixtures, alternatively, the certified copy of the writ of attachment together with a certified copy of the officer's endorsement on the original writ of attachment of the date or dates of the executing of the writ, may, within 3 days after the attachment, be deposited in the registry to deeds of the real estate registry in which the goods are located. In either case, such attachment shall thereupon be as valid and effectual as if the articles had been retained in the possession and custody of the officer.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 52 (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 52 - Personalty; Attachment of Proceeds of Sale

Section 52. If personal property has been sold or disposed of by consent of the parties, or after an appraisal as hereinafter provided, the proceeds, while remaining in the hands of the officer, shall be liable to be further attached by him as the property of the original defendant, in the manner in which the property itself might have been attached; and shall be held and disposed of in the same manner as if the attachment had been made on the property itself before the sale thereof. The foregoing provision shall not prevent the officer from paying over to the defendant the surplus of the proceeds of such sale, after retaining enough to satisfy all the attachments actually existing at the time of such payment.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 53 (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 53 - Further Attachment of Replevied Property

Section 53. Property which has been replevied from an officer who has attached it shall be considered as remaining in his custody and control so as to be liable to further successive attachments, as if it had remained in his possession.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 54 (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 54 - Replevin; Liability of Plaintiff for Value

Section 54. If there is judgment for a return of the property so replevied, the plaintiff in replevin and his sureties shall be liable for the whole of the property or the value thereof, although the attachment for which it is finally held was made after the property was replevied.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 55 (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 55 - Death or Removal of First Attaching Officer

Section 55. If an officer dies or is removed from office while an attachment which he has made remains in force, the attached property, whether replevied or remaining in possession of the officer or of his executor or administrator, may be further attached by any other officer so as to bind it or its proceeds, as if the later attachment had been made by the first mentioned officer.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 56 (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 56 - Death or Removal of First Attaching Officer; Procedure in Subsequent Attachment

Section 56. The officer who makes such later attachment shall not take the property itself, but he shall make proof of service of the writ of attachment to the court in writing, stating by whom the property was previously attached and shall leave a certified copy of the writ of attachment and of the proof of service of that writ of attachment with the former officer, if living, or, if he is dead, with his executor or administrator or whoever then has possession of the property. The attachment shall be considered as made when such copy is delivered in any of the modes provided in this section.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 57 (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 57 - Replevied Property; Mode of Attaching

Section 57. Property which has been replevied from an attaching officer shall not be further attached as the property of the original defendant in any manner other than is provided in the four preceding sections and in section forty-seven, so long as it is held by the plaintiff in replevin or by any person holding under him, unless the original defendant has acquired a new title thereto.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 58 (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 58 - Death of Attaching Officer; Continuance of Attachment

Section 58. Property which has been attached by an officer, whether in his custody at his death or taken from him by replevin or otherwise, and also all claims for damages to property so taken from him, shall remain subject to the attachment as if the officer had lived, and shall not be considered as assets in the hands of his executor or administrator.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 59 (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 59 - Duration of Attachment After Judgment

Section 59. Upon judgment for the plaintiff in a civil action, property which has been attached in connection with said action shall remain subject to attachment for thirty days after the date which appears on the execution issued upon such judgment pursuant to chapter two hundred and thirty-five, unless sooner dissolved.  If property has been attached in Nantucket county and judgment for the plaintiff rendered in another county, or if judgment is rendered in Nantucket county and property has been attached in another county, it shall be held in like manner, subject to the same conditions, for a period of sixty days.  The provisions of this section shall apply to property attached upon a counterclaim when judgment is rendered for the defendant upon such counterclaim.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 62 (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 62 - General Provisions

Section 62. In attaching land, or a right or interest therein, the officer need not enter upon the land or be within view of it. In attaching leasehold estates, the officer shall state in his return in general terms the leasehold property attached. Every writ on which such an attachment of land, or a right or interest therein, is made shall contain or have endorsed upon it the name and last known residence of each defendant.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 63 (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 63 - Copy of Writ; Deposit in Registry of Deeds

Section 63. No attachment of land or of any leasehold estate shall be valid against a subsequent attaching creditor, or against a subsequent purchaser in good faith and for value, unless the officer deposits a certified copy of the writ of attachment and so much of his return thereon as relates to the attachment of the estate, in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 64 (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 64 - Attaching Officer; Duty

Section 64. The officer who makes such attachment shall deposit such copy in the registry of deeds.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 65 (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 65 - Register; Duty; Fees

Section 65. The register of deeds shall note on such copy the day, hour and minute of its receipt, and shall record it in his office. He shall also enter in the indexes provided for in chapter thirty-six the name or names of each defendant whose land is attached as appears in said copy, the name of the plaintiff, and the court where the writ under which such attachment was made is returnable. The recording fees may be taxed as a part of the plaintiff's costs.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 66 (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 66 - Attachment; Time of Taking Effect

Section 66. If the copy of the writ is deposited, as aforesaid, within three days after the day when the attachment was made the attachment shall take effect from the time it was made, otherwise, from the time when the copy is so deposited; but attachments of land, and of leasehold estates which have an original term of more than seven years, shall in no case be valid against purchasers in good faith and for value, other than parties defendant, before the time when the copy is deposited as aforesaid, and no attachment shall be valid against such purchasers as to any particular parcel of land, or as to any particular leasehold estate as aforesaid, in any case where the name of the owner thereof under which he acquired title thereto as appears on the public records is not included in the writ unless the writ is seasonably amended to include such name and then only from the time when a correspondingly amended copy is deposited as aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 67 (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 67 - Fraudulently Conveyed Realty; General Provisions

Section 67. If an attachment on mesne process is made of land, or of a right or interest therein, which has been fraudulently conveyed by the debtor to a third person, or which has been purchased by the debtor, or the purchase money of which has been directly or indirectly paid by him, and the title thereto has been retained in the vendor or conveyed to another person, with the intent and for the purpose of fraudulently securing the land from attachment by a creditor of such debtor, or with the intent and for the purpose of delaying, defeating or defrauding creditors, or which is held on a trust for the debtor, express or implied, whereby he is entitled to a present conveyance, or which was acquired by the debtor by a deed describing him as trustee, regardless of the validity of the trust or the legal effect of the designation as trustee, it shall not be valid against a subsequent attaching creditor, or against a subsequent purchaser in good faith and for value, unless the officer in addition to the return required by sections sixty-two and sixty-three also returns a brief description of the land which has been attached, by its locality, situation, boundaries or otherwise as known to him, and the names of the persons in whom the record or legal title stands.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 68 (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 68 - Fraudulently Conveyed Realty; Duty of Register

Section 68. The register in such case, in addition to the names of the parties to the action which he is required to enter as provided in section sixty-five, shall also enter in his docket of attachments the names of the persons in whom the record or legal title stands, as returned by the officer, in the same manner as if the estate of such persons were attached as defendants in the action.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 69 (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 69 - Papers in Actions in Federal Courts; Duties of Registers

Section 69. Registers of deeds shall perform the same duties relative to the filing and entering of copies of writs and other papers in actions commenced in the courts of the United States which affect the title to land by attachment or otherwise as are required relative to the filing and entering of such papers in such actions commenced in the courts of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 70 (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 70 - Encumbered Realty

Section 70. An attachment of land which is subject to a mortgage or other encumbrance shall, if the mortgage is redeemed or the encumbrance is removed before the levy of the execution, hold the land discharged of the mortgage or encumbrance, and execution may be levied in the same manner and with the same effect as if it had never existed.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 71 (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 71 - Attachment of Shares of Stock Prohibited

Section 71. Shares of stock shall not be attached in a civil action in which only money damages are sought.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 72 (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 72 - Attachment of Property in Possession of Bailee; Limitation

Section 72. If goods are delivered to a carrier or other bailee by the owner or by a person whose act in conveying title to a purchaser in good faith for value would bind the owner and a negotiable document of title is issued for them, they cannot thereafter, while in the possession of such bailee, be attached by trustee process or otherwise, or be levied upon, unless the document be first surrendered to the bailee or its negotiation enjoined. The bailee shall not be compelled to deliver up the actual possession of the goods until the document is surrendered to him or impounded by the court.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 73 (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 73 - Carrier or Warehouseman; Property in Possession

Section 73. Except as provided in the preceding section, property in the possession of a carrier or warehouseman may be attached by trustee process or otherwise; but if the bill of lading or receipt, though non-negotiable, has been transferred, and the carrier or warehouseman notified of the transfer, the title of the transferee shall not be defeated by an attachment in a suit against a prior owner of the goods.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 74 (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 74 - Mortgaged or Sold Under Conditional Sales Contract

Section 74. Personal property of a debtor which is subject to a mortgage, pledge or lien, and of which he has the right of redemption, or personal property sold under a contract of conditional sale reserving title in the vendor, may be attached and held as if it were unencumbered, if the attaching creditor pays or tenders to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, conditional vendor, or his assigns, the amount for which the property is so liable within ten days after demand as hereinafter provided.
MA Gen L ch 223 § 75 (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 75 - Mortgagee, Lienor, or Conditional Vendor; Duty to State Account

Section 75. Within a reasonable time after such property has been attached, or, in the case of property subject to a recorded mortgage or covered by a financing statement filed pursuant to the provisions of chapter one hundred and six, within a reasonable time after written notice of the attachment, the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, conditional vendor or secured party, or his assigns, may demand payment of the money for which the property is liable, giving a just and true account of the debt or demand for which the property is liable to him, showing clearly the balance thereof, whether then payable or payable thereafter, and accompanying it by a reference to the record of recording of a mortgage or the record of filing of a financing statement. Such demand shall be served, either in hand or by registered mail with a request for a return receipt, upon the attaching creditor, or his attorney, or the attaching officer. If the balance as stated in the account, whether then payable or not, is not paid, or tendered to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, conditional vendor or secured party, or his assigns, within ten days after such service, the attachment shall be dissolved and the attaching creditor shall be liable to him for any damage he has sustained by the attachment, and the property shall be restored to the person entitled thereto.