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MA Gen L ch 246 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 19 - False Answers; Penalty

Section 19. If a person summoned as trustee, his executor or administrator, or if an officer, agent or other person who appears and answers for a corporation so summoned, knowingly and wilfully swears falsely in his answer or upon his examination, he shall be liable to the plaintiff in the trustee process, or to his executor or administrator, for the full amount due on the judgment recovered therein, with interest, to be paid out of his own goods and estate.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 20 - Effect of Attachment

Section 20. The goods, effects or credits of the defendant intrusted to, or deposited in the hands or possession of, a person summoned as his trustee shall, except as hereinafter provided, be attached and held to respond to the final judgment, as if they had been attached upon an original writ of attachment; provided, that any moneys of the defendant deposited in any account designated as a payroll account shall not be subject to attachment hereunder. Any defendant who deposits moneys in such payroll account with intent to evade attachment by trustee process shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than three months, or both. If such a deposit or deposits are made by a corporation, the president and the treasurer and any other officer or agent causing such deposit or deposits to have been made shall be subject to prosecution as defendants under this section, and each of such persons shall be jointly and severally civilly liable to the plaintiff for any loss suffered by the making of such deposit or deposits.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 20a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 20a - Attachment of Wages; Proceedings Outside Commonwealth Against Resident Debtors and Employers Prohibited

Section 20A. No person shall send out of this commonwealth by assignment, transfer, or in any other manner, with or without consideration, or institute in a foreign court any action upon a claim against a resident debtor of this commonwealth, with the intent of depriving such resident debtor of the benefit of the exemptions and protection accorded by this commonwealth to wage earners whose wages are in the hands of their employers, so long as such resident debtor and the employer holding such wages intended to be reached by such proceedings are within the jurisdiction of the courts of this commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 22 - Liability as Trustee of Assignee in Insolvency

Section 22. After a dividend on the estate of an insolvent debtor has been declared, it may, unless it is upon a claim for wages which would have been exempt from attachment by trustee process in the hands of the insolvent debtor, be so attached in the hands of the assignee.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 23 - Liability of Receivers

Section 23. Funds, credits or dividends due from or in the hands of receivers appointed by a court may be so attached after an order has been made for their distribution.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 24 - Money, etc., Due but Not Payable; Attachment

Section 24. Money or any other thing due to the defendant absolutely and without any contingency may be so attached before it has become payable, but the trustee shall not be compelled to pay or deliver it before the time appointed by the contract.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 25 - Conveyances Void as to Creditors; Persons Having Property as Trustees

Section 25. A person summoned as trustee having goods, effects or credits of the defendant in his possession by a conveyance or title void as to the creditors of the defendant may be adjudged a trustee, although the defendant could not maintain an action therefor against him.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 26 - Mutual Demands Between Trustee and Defendant; Liability of Trustee

Section 26. A trustee may retain or deduct from the goods, effects or credits in his hands all liquidated demands or judgments against the defendant of which, had he not been summoned as trustee, he might have availed himself upon a trial or by the set-off of judgments or executions between himself and the defendant, and he shall be liable for the balance only after all mutual demands, excluding therefrom any claim on either side for unliquidated damages for wrongs or injuries, between himself and the defendant have been adjusted.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 27 - Liability of Trustee Before Knowledge of Service

Section 27. If, after the service of process on the trustee, but before he has knowledge thereof, he makes any payment in good faith or becomes liable to a third person by reason of the goods, effects or credits in his hands, or delivers such goods, effects or credits to the defendant or to any other person who may be entitled thereto, he shall be allowed therefor in the same manner as if the payment or delivery had been made, or as if the liability had been incurred, before the service of process.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 28a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 28a - Monies Held by Banks or Similar Institutions; Exemption; Limitations

Section 28A. Twenty-five hundred dollars of any natural person in an account in a trust company, savings bank, cooperative bank, credit union, national banking association or other banking institution doing business in the commonwealth shall be exempt from attachment by trustee process. A trustee summons served on any such institution shall describe the exemption with reference to this section. Upon service of a trustee summons, the trustee shall answer as subject to attachment only so much money of the defendant that exceeds $2,500.  No business, trust or organization shall be entitled to the exemption in this section and no natural person shall be entitled to more than a $2,500 exemption at any one time. In any action, the plaintiff may apply to the court for further attachments upon proof by certified records of a trustee that the defendant has received an exemption not authorized under this section or that the $2,500 exemption of the defendant has been in whole or in part exhausted or exceeded.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 29 - Offer of Judgment; Costs

Section 29. If, after wages for personal labor or services have been attached in connection with a civil action, the defendant is defaulted, or if the defendant makes an offer of judgment in accordance with an applicable rule of court and the plaintiff accepts such offer or fails to secure a judgment more favorable than the offer, the plaintiff shall recover no costs except the entry fee and the officer's fee for service of process.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 30 - Attaching Exempt Wages; Penalty

Section 30. Whoever wilfully causes, or aids and abets in causing, wages for personal services exempt from attachment to be attached by trustee process in order to unlawfully hinder or delay their payment to the person to whom they belong shall, on complaint of the person injured thereby or of the guardian or other person having the lawful custody of any such person incompetent to act, be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, to the use of the person injured thereby.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 31 - Bonds; Savings Banks as Trustees

Section 31. If a savings bank is charged as trustee, and the court finds that the answer creates a doubt as to the identity of the defendant, it may require the plaintiff to give bond, with surety approved by the court, conditioned to indemnify such bank from any loss by reason of payment by it pursuant to the court's order.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 33 - Claims by Third Persons

Section 33. If a person claiming, by assignment from the defendant or otherwise, goods, effects or credits in the hands of a supposed trustee enters an appearance, he shall be admitted as a party in order to determine his title to such goods, effects or credits, and may allege and prove any facts which have not been stated or denied by the supposed trustee. Such allegations shall be tried and determined as provided in section seventeen upon depositions or oral testimony as the court orders. If he does not voluntarily enter an appearance, the court may issue an order of notice to him.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 34 - Assignments as Security for Debts

Section 34. If it appears that the claimant holds a valid assignment from the principal defendant only as security for a debt, the court shall, at the request of the plaintiff, ascertain and determine the amount due upon such debt at the time of service upon the trustee, and the claimant shall have judgment and execution for the amount so found to be due him and for his costs; and after said judgment and execution have been satisfied, the residue, if any, of the goods, effects or credits in the hands of the trustee shall be subject to the attachment in the trustee process. If judgment by default has been rendered against the trustee and it appears that he has paid over, upon execution issued on the original judgment, any part of the goods, effects or credits in his hands liable to attachment, he shall be liable to the adverse claimant only for the residue in his hands.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 35 - Actions Pending by Defendant Against Trustees; Continuance

Section 35. If, while an action is pending, the defendant is summoned in another action as trustee of the plaintiff, the earlier action may proceed so far as to ascertain by a verdict, award or otherwise the amount due from the defendant, and it shall not be delayed on account of the trustee process, unless the court continues it for judgment until the termination of the trustee process or until the attachment therein is dissolved by the discharge of the trustee, by the satisfaction of the judgment or otherwise. The court may, upon application of the plaintiff in the trustee process, so continue such pending action upon terms.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 36 - Actions Not Continued; Liability of Judgment Debtor as Trustee

Section 36. If the action is not so continued and judgment is rendered against the defendant, he shall not afterward, while liable to an execution thereon, be adjudged a trustee on account of the demand so recovered against him.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 37 - Defendant in Pending Action Adjudged Trustee; Proceedings

Section 37. If, before final judgment in such pending action, the defendant therein is adjudged a trustee in the trustee process, and pays thereon the money demanded in the pending action, or any part thereof, such fact shall be stated on the record of the action, and judgment therein shall be rendered for the costs due to the plaintiff and for the part of the debt or damages remaining due and unpaid.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 38 - Counterclaim by Defendant in Pending Action; Proceedings

Section 38. If, while an action is pending, the plaintiff is summoned as trustee of the defendant on account of a counterclaim filed therein, such pending action shall be subject to the three preceding sections in the same manner and with the same effect as if it were an action brought upon such counterclaim by the defendant against the plaintiff.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 39 - Form of Judgment Charging Trustee

Section 39. If a person is adjudged a trustee, the amount for which he is chargeable need not be specified in the judgment.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 40 - Second Attachment; Recovery by Defendant

Section 40. If the goods, effects and credits in the hands of a person adjudged a trustee are not demanded of him by force of the execution within thirty days after final judgment, they shall be liable to another attachment, whether made before or after the judgment; or if there has been no such second attachment, they may be recovered by the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 41 - Liability of Trustee After Thirty Days

Section 41. If no such second attachment of the goods, effects and credits has been made, and no action has been brought therefor by the defendant, and if they have not been paid or delivered to the defendant before they are demanded of the trustee by the officer, the trustee shall be liable to pay and deliver the same, when so demanded, although said thirty days have expired.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 42 - Demand on Absent Trustee; Service

Section 42. If the trustee cannot be found in the commonwealth by the officer to whom the execution is committed for service, a copy of the execution left at his dwelling house or at his last and usual place of abode, with a notice to him, endorsed thereon and signed by the officer, that he is required to pay and deliver, toward satisfying the execution, the goods, effects and credits for which he is liable shall be a sufficient demand for the purposes of the two preceding sections.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 43 - Effect of Judgment Against Trustee

Section 43. The judgment against a trustee shall acquit and discharge him from all demands by the defendant, his executor or administrator, for all goods, effects and credits paid, delivered or accounted for by the trustee by force of such judgment.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 44 - Discharge of Trustee; Actions by Defendant

Section 44. If a person summoned as trustee is discharged, the judgment shall be no bar to an action brought against him by the defendant for the same demand.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 45 - Action to Satisfy Judgment Upon Default of Trustee

Section 45. If a person adjudged a trustee does not, upon demand, pay over to the officer goods, effects or credits sufficient to satisfy the execution and if the execution is not otherwise satisfied, the plaintiff may commence an action in the court in which the judgment was rendered to have the original judgment, or the amount remaining unsatisfied, satisfied from the goods and estate of the trustee or trustees. Such an action may be commenced at any time after thirty days from the date of judgment.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 46 - Default of Trustee; Judgment in Absence of Answer or Examination in Original Action

Section 46. If a trustee duly served with a summons and complaint issued under the previous section fails to appear and answer, he shall be defaulted; and if he did not answer, and was not examined in the original action, judgment shall be rendered against him upon such default for the whole amount remaining unsatisfied on the judgment against the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 47 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 47 - Default of Trustee; Judgment in Case of Answer or Examination in Original Action

Section 47. If a trustee defaulted in an action brought under section forty-five has answered or been examined in the original action, judgment shall be rendered upon the facts stated in such answer or examination for any part remaining in his hands of the goods, effects or credits for which he was chargeable as trustee, or for so much thereof as is necessary to satisfy the amount then remaining due on the original judgment.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 48 - Appearance of Trustee; Proceedings; Judgments

Section 48. In a proceeding brought under section forty-five, if the trustee appears and answers, he may be examined; but if he has been examined in the original action, he shall be examined again only by order of the court. A trustee may prove any matter necessary or proper for his defense; and any judgment rendered against him shall express the amount for which he is chargeable.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 49 - Limitations

Section 49. No action provided under section forty-five shall be brought against a person adjudged a trustee unless he is served within two years after judgment in the original action; or, if the money or other thing is not payable when the judgment is rendered, unless he is served within one year after such money or other thing becomes payable.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 50 - Death of Trustee Before Judgment Satisfied

Section 50. If a person summoned as trustee in his own right dies before the judgment recovered by the plaintiff has been fully satisfied, the goods, effects and credits in his hands at the time of the attachment shall remain bound thereby, and his executor or administrator shall be bound thereby, as if the summons were originally served on him.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 51 - Death of Trustee Before Judgment; Proceedings; Prior Examination of Deceased

Section 51. If a person so summoned dies before judgment in the original action, his executor or administrator may appear voluntarily or may be cited to appear, as in other cases. The further proceedings shall then be conducted in the same manner as if the executor or administrator had been originally summoned as trustee, except that the examination of the deceased, if any has been filed, shall have the same effect as if he were living.
MA Gen L ch 246 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases|Chapter 246 - Trustee Process|Section 52 - Default Judgments; Payments

Section 52. If the executor or administrator does not appear, the plaintiff, instead of suggesting the death of the trustee, may take judgment against him by default or otherwise as if he were living, and the executor or administrator shall pay upon the execution the amount which the deceased would have been liable to pay to the defendant, and shall be thereby discharged for the amount so paid. If he does not voluntarily pay the amount in his hands, the plaintiff may proceed against him in the manner provided in section forty-five.