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MA Gen L ch 241 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 241 - Partition of Land|Section 34 - Unclaimed Proceeds of Sale; Disposition

Section 34. If the proceeds of a sale, or any share thereof, cannot be paid to the persons entitled thereto, the commissioners shall deposit the same in the name of the judge of probate for the county where the proceedings are had, or, in the case of the land court, the chief justice, in a savings bank or other like institution, or in a savings accounts in a trust company, or in paid–up shares and accounts of and in co–operative banks, or purchase with it in the name of the judge or justice a share account of a federal savings and loan association or a savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, as the court orders, to accumulate for the persons entitled thereto. The deposit or purchase shall be subject to sections twenty-five to twenty-eight, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and six, so far as applicable.
MA Gen L ch 241 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 241 - Partition of Land|Section 35 - Trustees; Appointment; Bond

Section 35. If in any share there are estates in succession, the court making partition may, upon petition of any party interested, appoint a trustee to receive, hold, manage and invest the proceeds of the sale of such share. The annual income of such share shall be paid to the owner of each successive estate for years or for life until it terminates, and the principal, after termination of prior estates, shall be paid to the parties entitled to the fee. The trustee shall, before entering upon the duties of his trust, give to the judge of probate and his successors or, in the case of the land court, the chief justice and his successors, a bond, with sufficient surety and in a penal sum as the court orders, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and, upon breach of the condition, an action may, by order of the court which holds the bond, be brought for the use of the persons interested in the trust property, as upon a bond of an administrator.
MA Gen L ch 241 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 241 - Partition of Land|Section 36 - Water Rights; Other Incorporeal Hereditaments; Division

Section 36. Joint tenants or tenants in common of a mill privilege, water right, or other incorporeal hereditament may be compelled to divide the same in the manner hereinbefore provided for the division of land. The commissioners appointed to make partition shall set forth in their return the best method of setting off to the several parties their respective shares, and thereupon the court may make such orders and decrees as might be made in equity. If any one of the joint owners so requests, the court shall order a sale, provided that a sale is feasible.
MA Gen L ch 241 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 241 - Partition of Land|Section 37 - Nonnavigable Natural Streams; Partition of Water

Section 37. Under the preceding section, partition may be made of the water of a natural stream, not navigable, the banks of which are owned by different riparian proprietors.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 1 - Waste; Persons Entitled to Maintain; Jury Trial

Section 1. If a tenant in dower, by the curtesy, for life or for years commits or suffers waste on the land so held, the person having the next immediate estate of inheritance may have an action of waste against such tenant to recover the place wasted and the amount of the damage, and such action shall be subject to the provisions of law relative to trial by jury. An heir may bring such action for waste done in the lifetime of his ancestor.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 2 - Actions of Tort in Nature of Waste; Persons Entitled to Maintain

Section 2. A person having the next immediate estate of inheritance, or a remainder or reversion in fee simple or fee tail after an intervening life estate, or having a remainder or reversion for life or for years, may have an action of tort in the nature of waste to recover the amount of the damage against the tenants named in the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 3 - Actions in Tort in Nature of Waste; When Maintainable Against Representatives

Section 3. If such action in tort was commenced in the lifetime of the tenant, it may be prosecuted against his executor or administrator or it may be commenced against such executor or administrator for waste committed or suffered in the tenant's lifetime.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 4 - Triple Damages for Waste; Liability of Co-Tenant

Section 4. A joint tenant or tenant in common of undivided land who cuts down, destroys or carries away trees, timber, wood or underwood standing or lying on such land, or digs up or carries away stone, ore or other valuable thing found there, or commits any other waste, without first giving thirty days' notice in writing under his hand to all other persons interested therein or to their respective agents or attorneys of his intention to enter upon and improve the land, or who does any of said acts during the pendency of a petition or other proceeding for the partition of the land shall forfeit three times the amount of the damages assessed therefor.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 5 - Actions for Triple Damages

Section 5. Such damages may be recovered in tort by one or more of the other co-tenants, without naming any one except the plaintiff, one half to the use of the co-tenants who associate themselves with the plaintiff in bringing the action, and the other half to their use and that of all the other co-tenants except the defendant, to be divided among them in each class in proportion to the value of their respective interests in the land.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 6 - Triple Damages for Waste During Pendency of Action for Recovery of Land

Section 6. If, during the pendency of an action for the recovery of land, the tenant or person in possession, with knowledge thereof, commits waste, the demandant, if he recovers judgment, may afterward recover in tort three times the amount of the damages assessed therefor.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 7 - Willful Trespass to Trees, etc.; Damages

Section 7. A person who without license willfully cuts down, carries away, girdles or otherwise destroys trees, timber, wood or underwood on the land of another shall be liable to the owner in tort for three times the amount of the damages assessed therefor; but if it is found that the defendant had good reason to believe that the land on which the trespass was committed was his own or that he was otherwise lawfully authorized to do the acts complained of, he shall be liable for single damages only.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 7a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 7a - Agricultural or Horticultural Land; Theft or Destruction; Treble Damages

Section 7A. Any person who, without permission, willfully enters the agricultural or horticultural land of another, including, but not limited to, an orchard, garden, nursery, cranberry bog, field, or vineyard, and carries away, takes, steals, mutilates, destroys, damages, causes to be damaged, or cuts any tree, shrub, fruit, berry, vegetable, grain, grass, hay, vine, plant, flower, or any other agricultural commodity defined pursuant to section one A of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight shall be liable to the owner of said land in tort for three times the amount of the damages assessed therefor.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 7b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 7b - Damage by Off-Highway or Recreational Vehicle to Field Crops or Agricultural Property; Treble Damages; Definitions

Section 7B. (a) Any person operating an off-highway or recreational vehicle who damages or destroys a field crop product and agricultural property situated on the land of another shall be liable to the owner of such product in tort.  (b) A party awarded judgment under this section shall be entitled to damages in an amount up to, but not greater than, 3 times the amount assessed for the removal, damage or destruction of the farm crop product and agricultural property, plus attorney fees and litigation costs. In assessing damages under this section, the court shall consider the market value of the field crop product and agricultural property prior to its removal, damage or destruction and all costs directly related to the production, research, testing, replacement and development of the field crop product and agricultural property.  (c) Damages awarded under this section shall not limit remedies available under chapter 266 or under any other applicable local, state or federal law.  (d) Liability under this section shall not apply to any federal, state or local government agency, or to any employee of any such agency acting in the course of his employment.  (e) For purposes of this section, a ''field crop product'' shall mean any product of the soil that is grown in the context of a research or product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility or a university, any federal, state or local governmental agency or any crop produced for commercial purposes on an agricultural operation as defined by Section 1A of chapter 128.  (f) For purposes of this section, an ''agricultural property'' shall mean any implement of husbandry, structure used for the conveyance of water or structure used in the production, growing or processing of field crop products or for keeping and raising of livestock.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 8 - Involuntary Trespass; Tender of Damages

Section 8. A trespasser, if the trespass was casual and involuntary, may, before an action is commenced, tender the damages and, upon action brought, disclaim title and allege the tender and that the trespass was casual and involuntary; and if it is found that the allegations are true and if he has deposited with the court the amount of his tender at the time of filing his answer and the damages assessed are not more than the amount tendered, he shall recover costs. Such tender may, subject to the same provisions, be made after the action has been commenced with like effect, if it covers the costs to the time of tender.
MA Gen L ch 242 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 242 - Waste and Trespass|Section 9 - Enjoining Waste; Jurisdiction; Bond

Section 9. If a person whose land is attached commits waste thereon or threatens or prepares so to do or if a real action is brought to foreclose a mortgage or for possession thereunder or for the recovery of land and any waste, or act in the nature of waste, on the land has been committed or threatened by the tenant or any one who claims under him or acts by his permission, the court in which the action is pending shall, upon motion of the plaintiff or demandant, have jurisdiction in equity to enjoin such waste or act. In such case the court may require the plaintiff or demandant to give bond in such sum as it orders to the adverse party, with sufficient sureties, conditioned, if the injunction is dissolved, to pay all damages arising from the issuing thereof.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 1 - Judgment for Abatement of Nuisance

Section 1. If the plaintiff prevails in tort for a nuisance, the court may, in addition to the judgment for damages and costs, enter judgment that the nuisance be abated and removed and may issue execution for the damages and costs and a separate warrant to the proper officer, requiring him to abate and remove the nuisance at the expense of the defendant as public and common nuisances are abated and removed.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 2 - Stay of Warrant

Section 2. The court may, upon motion of the defendant, order a stay of such warrant for not more than six months, to give him opportunity to remove the nuisance, upon his undertaking so to do within the time ordered.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 3 - Judgment of Abatement in Second Action

Section 3. If the plaintiff recovers judgment in a second action for the continuance or repetition of the same nuisance, he shall be entitled as of right to a judgment for abatement and removal and to a warrant as provided in section one, if judgment in the former action was in his favor and whether it included an order for abatement or removal or not.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 4 - Expense of Abatement; Collection

Section 4. The expense of abatement and removal shall be collected by the officer as damages and costs are collected upon execution, except that the materials of buildings, fences or other things so removed may be sold by the officer as goods are sold on execution for the payment of debts. The officer shall apply the proceeds to the expense of the removal and shall upon demand pay over the remainder to the defendant. If the proceeds are insufficient to defray the expenses, the officer shall collect the deficit from the defendant.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 5 - Injunction to Restrain Nuisance

Section 5. The superior court may in an action for a nuisance enjoin such nuisance.
MA Gen L ch 243 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 243 - Actions for Private Nuisances|Section 6 - Actions Against Farming Operations; Limitations

Section 6. No action in nuisance may be maintained against any person or entity resulting from the operation of a farm or any ancillary or related activities thereof, if said operation is an ordinary aspect of said farming operation or ancillary or related activity; provided, however, that said farm shall have been in operation for more than one year. This section shall not apply if the nuisance is determined to exist as the result of negligent conduct or actions inconsistent with generally accepted agricultural practices. For the purposes of this section, ''agriculture'' and ''farming'' shall be as defined in section one A of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 1 - Foreclosure by Entry or Action; Continued Possession

Section 1. A mortgagee may, after breach of condition of a mortgage of land, recover possession of the land mortgaged by an open and peaceable entry thereon, if not opposed by the mortgagor or other person claiming it, or by action under this chapter; and possession so obtained, if continued peaceably for three years from the date of recording of the memorandum or certificate as provided in section two, shall forever foreclose the right of redemption.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 2 - Entry Without Judgment; Memorandum or Certificate; Recording

Section 2. If an entry for breach of condition is made without a judgment, a memorandum of the entry shall be made on the mortgage deed and signed by the mortgagor or person claiming under him, or a certificate, under oath, of two competent witnesses to prove the entry shall be made. Such memorandum or certificate shall after the entry, except as provided in section seventy of chapter one hundred and eighty-five, be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies, with a note of reference, if the mortgage is recorded in the same registry, from each record to the other. Unless such record is made, the entry shall not be effectual for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 3 - Declaration by Mortgagees; Conditional Judgment

Section 3. The mortgagee in an action for possession may declare on his own seisin, stating that it is in mortgage; and if the court finds upon verdict or otherwise that the plaintiff is entitled to possession of the land for breach of condition, it shall upon motion of either party, except as provided in the following section, award a conditional judgment.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 4 - Procedure

Section 4. Unless the defendant is the mortgagor or his assignee, or entitled to hold or claim the land under the mortgagor or his assignee, he shall not redeem the land nor have a conditional judgment, except with the consent of the plaintiff, but the action shall be conducted like an action for possession, and in all cases the judgment for the plaintiff may be entered for possession as at common law, unless one or the other of the parties moves for the conditional judgment.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 5 - Form of Conditional Judgments Generally

Section 5. If the conditional judgment is to be entered, the court shall determine the amount due to the plaintiff on the mortgage, and shall enter judgment that if the defendant within two months after the judgment pays to the plaintiff such amount with interest and the costs, the mortgage shall be void, and the defendant shall hold the land discharged thereof; otherwise, that the plaintiff shall have execution for possession and for costs.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 6 - Form in Special Cases

Section 6. If the condition of the mortgage is not for the payment of money, or if a part only of the money, the payment of which is secured by the mortgage, is due, the court shall vary the terms of the judgment as the case may require, but shall award execution as before provided unless the defendant within two months after the judgment performs the conditions thereof.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 7 - Discharge or Release on Satisfaction of Execution

Section 7. If, after an execution on a judgment for possession has been levied, the amount due on the mortgage and costs are paid in full, the mortgagee, his executor, administrator or assigns shall, at the expense of the mortgagor, enter on the margin of the record of the execution an acknowledgment of satisfaction or make to the mortgagor a deed of release, which shall be recorded with notes of reference to the execution discharged thereby.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 8 - Form of Action; Parties

Section 8. The entry may be made or the action brought by an assignee of the mortgagee. The action for possession may be brought, and shall be conducted as if brought by the original mortgagee. The mortgagor may be joined therein as a defendant irrespective of his estate in the land; but if he has no estate in the land and makes no defence to the action, he shall not be liable for costs.
MA Gen L ch 244 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title III - Remedies Relating to Real Property|Chapter 244 - Foreclosure and Redemption of Mortgages|Section 9 - Right of Entry Before Breach

Section 9. This chapter shall not prevent a mortgagee or person claiming under him from entering on the land or from recovering possession thereof before breach of condition of the mortgage, if there is no agreement to the contrary; but if the debt is afterward paid or the mortgage redeemed, the amount of the clear rents and profits from the time of the entry shall be accounted for and deducted from the amount due on the mortgage.