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MA Gen L ch 235 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 31 - Property Liable to Execution

Section 31. All property which by common law is liable to be taken on execution, may be taken and sold thereon, except as otherwise expressly provided.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 32 - Current Coin Taken on Execution

Section 32. Current gold or silver coin may be taken on execution, and may be paid to the creditor as money collected.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 33 - Bank Notes Taken on Execution

Section 33. Bank notes and all other bills or evidences of debt, issued by a moneyed corporation and circulated as money, may be taken on execution and paid to the creditor at their par value as money collected, if he will accept them; otherwise, they shall be sold like other chattels.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 34a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 34a - Annuities, Pensions, Profit Sharing or Retirement Plans; Insolvency; Attachment

Section 34A. The right or interest of any person in an annuity, pension, profit sharing or other retirement plan subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, in any plan maintained by one or more self-employed individuals as a Keogh Plan, so-called, in any plan maintained by a corporation or other business organization pursuant to section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code but not subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or in any Simplified Employee Plan, annuity plan to which the provisions of section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code apply or Individual Retirement Account or Annuity maintained by an individual, or in any annuity or similar contract distributed from or purchased with assets distributed from any of the foregoing, shall be exempt from the operation of any law relating to insolvency and shall not be attached or taken on execution or other process to satisfy any debt or liability of such person, except as may be necessary to satisfy (i) an order of a court of competent jurisdiction concerning divorce, separate maintenance or child support or (ii), in the event of the conviction of such person of a crime, an order of a court requiring such person to satisfy a monetary penalty or make restitution to the victim of such crime. The exemption in this section for plans maintained by an individual, whether or not self-employed, shall not apply to sums deposited, determined without regard to deposits pursuant to a rollover or transfer except to the extent protection under this section would be limited in the absence of a rollover or transfer, in said plans during the five year period preceding the individual's declaration of bankruptcy or entry of judgment in excess of 7 per cent of the total income of such individual for such period.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 35 - Indemnification of Officer

Section 35. If there is reasonable doubt as to the ownership of personal property or as to its liability to be taken on execution, before or after the execution has been levied thereon, the officer may require sufficient security from the creditor to indemnify him for taking 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 creditor or his attorney, the officer may refuse to levy the execution or, if he has already levied it, may discharge his levy, without liability to the creditor therefor.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 36 - Sale of Personalty on Execution; Costs

Section 36. Personal property seized on execution shall be safely kept by the officer, at the expense of the debtor, for four days at least; and shall be sold by public auction within fourteen days next after the seizure, except as provided in the following sections, unless the debtor before such sale redeems it by otherwise satisfying the execution.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 37 - Notice of Sale

Section 37. The officer shall give notice of the time and place of sale by causing notices thereof to be posted forty-eight hours at least before the time of sale in a public place in the town where the sale is to be made, or by causing an advertisement of the time and place of sale to be published in a newspaper, if any, published in the town where the debtor had his last and usual place of residence.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 38 - Property Valued in Excess of Three Hundred Dollars; Notice of Sale

Section 38. If the value of such property to be sold exceeds three hundred dollars, the officer shall, at the request of either party, give notice of the sale by advertisement in a newspaper as provided in the preceding section; and the sale may be made at any time after the expiration of four days, and within thirty days after seizure on execution.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 39 - Adjournment of Sale; Notice

Section 39. If, at the time appointed for the sale, the officer considers it for the interest of all persons concerned to postpone it, he may adjourn it for not more than seven days, and so from time to time until the sale is completed; giving notice of every such adjournment by a public declaration thereof at the time and place previously appointed for the sale.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 40 - Adjournment Upon Injunction

Section 40. If a sale of such property on execution is enjoined, it may be adjourned by the court granting the injunction to await further order of the court, and upon dissolution of the injunction the court may order the sale to proceed, and may order additional notice of the adjourned sale.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 41 - Failure of Highest Bidder to Purchase; Re-Sale

Section 41. If the highest bidder for an article at such sale refuses to take and pay for it, the officer shall sell it again by auction, at the same time or within ten days thereafter, giving notice of the second sale; and he shall account for what he receives on the second sale, and for any damages recovered of the first bidder for a loss on the re-sale, as for so much received on the execution.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 42 - Return of Execution; Liability for Fraud

Section 42. The officer making such sale shall in his return of the execution particularly describe the property sold and the amount for which each article was sold; and if he is guilty of fraud in the sale or return, he shall be liable in tort to the party injured for five times the amount of the actual damage sustained by reason of such fraud.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 43 - Proceeds of Sale; Disposition

Section 43. The officer shall apply the money arising from the sale to paying the charges and satisfying the execution, and shall return the residue, if any, to the debtor on demand, or shall apply and pay over the same as provided in the following sections.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 44 - Proceeds of Sale; Disposition Among Several Creditors

Section 44. If the property sold on execution has been attached by another creditor, or seized on another execution, either by the same or another officer, or if before payment of such residue to the debtor another writ of attachment or execution against him is delivered to the officer who made the sale, the proceeds of the sale shall be applied to the discharge of the several judgments in the order in which the respective writs of attachment or execution were served, and any residue returned to the debtor.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 45 - Successive Attachments; Notice; Liability of Attaching Officer

Section 45. If an attachment or seizure on execution is made of any property which may be attached without taking and keeping the exclusive possession thereof, and if the same property is subsequently attached or taken on execution by another officer, he shall give notice thereof to the officer who made the first attachment or seizure; and if the latter, before he receives such notice, pays to the debtor the balance of the proceeds of a sale, he shall not be liable therefor to the person claiming under such subsequent attachment or seizure.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 46 - Nature of Term for Years; Levy; Notice of Sale

Section 46. Terms for years, if the original lease was for one hundred years or more, and fifty years or more thereof remain unexpired, shall be regarded as real estate, for the levy of an execution thereon. Other terms for years shall be seized and sold on execution in like manner as personal property, except that the officer before selling the same shall give fourteen days' notice of the time and place of sale, by leaving a written notice thereof with the debtor personally or at his last and usual place of abode, and by posting a notice on the leased premises.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 47 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 47 - Suspension of Levy by Prior Seizure

Section 47. If personal property has been seized on execution, and the further service of the execution is suspended by reason of a prior attachment or seizure of the same property, such property shall remain bound by such later seizure until sold, in whole or in part, under the prior attachment or seizure, or until that attachment or seizure is dissolved.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 48 - Liability of Property Not Sold on Prior Seizure; Service of Execution

Section 48. If such property is sold in part under the prior attachment or seizure, or if that attachment or seizure is dissolved, the property or any part thereof remaining undisposed of shall continue bound for thirty days thereafter by the seizure on the execution; and service of the execution may be completed as if the estate had been first seized thereon within said thirty days, although the return day of the execution has passed.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 49 - Death, etc., of Officer Beginning Levy or Service; Completion of Service; Certificates

Section 49. If an officer, who has begun to serve an execution or other writ or process, dies or becomes incapable of completing the service and return thereof, the service may be completed by any officer qualified to serve it; or in case of illness or absence, the judgment creditor or the officer who began to serve the writ or process may delegate any officer qualified to serve it temporarily to act for him during said illness or absence. If the first officer has not made a certificate of his doings, the second officer shall certify whatever he finds to have been done by the first officer, and shall add thereto a certificate of his own doings.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 50 - Removal of Officer After Beginning of Levy

Section 50. If an officer has begun to serve an execution, he may complete the service and return thereof, although he is removed from office or although the service cannot be completed until after the return day.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 51 - Death of Party; Completion of Service

Section 51. If either party dies after any property, real or personal, has been seized on execution, the service thereof may be completed in like manner and with like effect as if both parties were living and the officer may appoint an appraiser for the deceased party.
MA Gen L ch 235 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 235 - Judgment and Execution|Section 52 - Detaining Money Collected on Execution; Penalty

Section 52. An officer who, upon demand by the creditor, unreasonably neglects to pay money collected by him on execution shall forfeit to the creditor five times the lawful interest of the money from the time of the demand until it is paid.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 1 - Land and Rights Subject to Execution

Section 1. All the land of a debtor in possession, remainder or reversion, all his rights of entry into land and of redeeming mortgaged land, and all such land and rights fraudulently conveyed by him with intent to defeat, delay or defraud his creditors, or purchased or directly or indirectly paid for by him but the record title of which has been retained in the vendor or conveyed to a third person with intent to defeat, delay or defraud the creditors of the debtor, or on a trust for him, express or implied, whereby he is entitled to a present conveyance, may, except as provided in chapter one hundred and eighty-eight, be taken on execution for his debts as provided in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 2 - Estates Tail

Section 2. Estates tail may be taken on execution in like manner as estates in fee simple; and whoever lawfully holds such land under the execution shall have an estate in fee simple therein.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 3 - Proceedings Upon Levy; Notice and Appraisal

Section 3. An officer taking land on execution shall give notice thereof to the debtor, if found within his precinct, cause the land to be appraised as provided in this chapter, if an appraisal is required, and complete the levy without unnecessary delay.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 4 - Deposit of Notice of Land Taken on Execution or Mesne Process; Nantucket County

Section 4. If land, which was not attached on mesne process in the action in which the execution issued, is taken on execution, the officer shall forthwith deposit in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies a copy of the execution with a memorandum thereon that the execution is in his hands for the purpose of taking the land of the defendant, and no such taking shall be valid against a purchaser in good faith, for value and without notice, before such copy is deposited. If land was attached on mesne process, a copy of the execution with a memorandum as aforesaid shall be deposited by the officer in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies, within forty days after the date which appears on the execution issued upon the judgment in the action, and the attachment shall become void forty days after said date unless the copy is so deposited; provided, that if land was attached on mesne process in Nantucket county and judgment was rendered in another county, or if judgment was rendered in Nantucket county and land was attached in another county, said copy shall be deposited within seventy days after the date which appears on the execution issued upon judgment in the action, and the attachment shall become void seventy days after said date unless the copy is so deposited.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 5 - Entries by Register

Section 5. The register shall note on every such copy the day, hour and minute when received, and record it in his office. He shall enter in the indexes provided for in chapter thirty-six the name or names of the plaintiff and defendant as stated in the copy, the time when execution was levied, the time the copy was recorded and the court that issued the execution.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 6 - Levy by Set-Off; Appointment of Appraisers

Section 6. The officer shall cause the land to be appraised by three disinterested persons, to be appointed, one by the creditor, one by the debtor whose land is taken or, if the debtor is absent from or does not reside in the commonwealth, by his agent or attorney if he has any known to the officer, and one by the officer. If the debtor is absent from or does not reside in the commonwealth and has no agent or attorney known to the officer or if he neglects within a reasonable time to appoint an appraiser, the officer shall appoint one for him.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 7 - Qualifications and Duties of Appraisers; Certificates of Appraisal

Section 7. The appraisers shall be sworn, before a justice of the peace or the officer, faithfully and impartially to appraise the land shown to them as taken on the execution, shall, with the officer, view the same and shall make such examination of it as may be necessary to form a just estimate of its value. A certificate of their appraisal signed by them shall be endorsed on the execution; but if one of the appraisers who was sworn and acted with the others refuses to sign the certificate, the certificate of the others shall be sufficient.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 8 - Valuation of Estates as Fee Simple; Exception

Section 8. The value of the estate of the debtor shall be appraised as an estate in fee simple in possession, unless it is expressly stated in the description endorsed on the execution to be a less estate. All the freehold estate and interest which the debtor has in the land shall be taken and shall pass by the levy, unless it is a larger estate than is mentioned in said description.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 9 - Mortgaged Land; Appraisal

Section 9. If a right of redeeming mortgaged land is taken and set off on execution, the appraisers shall deduct the value of the encumbrance or the amount of the mortgage debt, when known, from the appraised value of the land, and the amount so deducted shall be stated in the return of the execution.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 10 - Appraisal When Several Parcels Are Levied Upon

Section 10. If the execution is levied at the same time upon several parcels of land, each parcel may be separately appraised, or all may be appraised together. If several parcels are taken successively on the same execution, all the parcels may be appraised by the appraisers first appointed, or appraisers may be appointed for each parcel.
MA Gen L ch 236 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 236 - Levy of Executions on Land|Section 11 - Description of Land in Certificate of Appraisers; Return

Section 11. Land levied upon, whether an entire parcel or an undivided part, and whether the debtor's estate therein is a fee simple or a less estate, and whether it is in possession, reversion or remainder, shall be described, by metes and bounds or otherwise, with as much precision as is necessary in a deed of land, and in such manner that the land may be known and identified. Such description may be contained in the certificate of the appraisers or in the return of the officer, and the description in either may be referred to and adopted in the other.