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MA Gen L ch 204 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 5 - Cemetery Lots; Sale or Release

Section 5. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee may be authorized by the probate court, after notice to all persons interested, to sell and convey or release upon such terms and in such manner as the court may order, lots in cemeteries belonging to the person or estate by him represented.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 6 - Mortgage Given Under License of Court; Contents

Section 6. A mortgage given by an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee under license of court may contain a power of sale, and every such mortgage shall state that it is made under license of court and the date of such license.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 7 - Petitions for Sales by Foreign Fiduciaries; Venue

Section 7. All proceedings in probate courts relative to sales by a foreign executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee shall be in the county where an authenticated copy of his appointment is first filed.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 8 - License to Sell; Duration

Section 8. No license to sell by an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee shall be in force for more than one year after the granting thereof, except as provided in section eighteen of chapter two hundred and two.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 9 - Proceeds of Sales; Surplus; Disposition

Section 9. In every sale of the real estate of a deceased person or a ward by an executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, the surplus of the proceeds remaining on the final settlement of the accounts shall be considered as real estate, and shall be disposed of to the same persons and in the same proportions to whom and in which the real estate if not sold would have descended or have been disposed of by law.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 10 - Grant of License; Objections; Costs

Section 10. If a person appears and objects to the granting of a license to sell real estate and the court finds that either the petition or the objection thereto is unreasonable, it may award costs to the prevailing party.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 11 - Persons Licensed to Sell Realty; Examination

Section 11. A person authorized to sell land under license of court shall be required, upon petition to the probate court by an heir, creditor, ward or other person interested in the estate, to answer on oath as to all matters relative to his exercise and fulfilment of said license as fully as he is liable to account and be examined relative to personal property. If, in relation to the exercise of such license or to a sale under it, there is any neglect or misconduct in the proceedings of such person by which a person interested in the estate suffers damage, such interested person may recover compensation therefor on the probate bond or otherwise as the case may require.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 12 - Church, etc., Property; Sale or Transfer

Section 12. The supreme judicial court, upon petition of a party interested and after notice, may order the sale or transfer of any real or personal property held for churches, cemeteries or other like trusts and the investment or disposition of the proceeds, and may make orders and decrees necessary to secure the rights of owners of, or of other persons claiming an interest in, pews or in tombs or lots in cemeteries.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 19 - Irregularities in Proceedings; Effect

Section 19. No sale of real estate under license of court, and no title thereunder, shall be avoided for the reason that the deed was not delivered within one year after the license, or on account of any irregularity in the proceedings, if it appears—  First, That the license was granted by a court of competent jurisdiction;  Second, That the person licensed gave a bond approved by the court or judge granting such license, if a bond was required;  Third, That the notice of the time and place of sale was given according to the order of the court; and  Fourth, That the property was sold by public auction in accordance with the notice, and is held by one who purchased it in good faith.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 20 - Adverse Claims to Title

Section 20. If the validity of a sale is drawn in question by a person claiming adversely to the title of the deceased or of the ward, or under a title not derived from or through the deceased or the ward, the sale shall not be void by reason of any irregularity in the proceedings, if the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee was licensed to make the sale by a court of competent jurisdiction and executed and acknowledged in legal form a deed of the property.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 21 - Debts; Adjudication; Finality

Section 21. If a license is granted by a probate court for a sale or mortgage of real estate to pay the debts and charges of a deceased person or of a person under guardianship or conservatorship, the adjudication of said court as to the existence of such debts and charges shall be final so far as the same may affect any title acquired by virtue of such license, but shall not affect the right of the executor, administrator, guardian or conservator to contest the validity of such debts and charges.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 22 - Realty Sold by Fiduciaries; Limitation of Action or Entry

Section 22. No action for the recovery of property sold by an executor or administrator under chapter two hundred and two shall be maintained by an heir or other person claiming under the deceased unless commenced within five years next after the sale; and no action for property sold by a guardian or conservator under said chapter shall be maintained by the ward or by any person claiming under him unless commenced within five years next after the termination of the guardianship or conservatorship; but persons out of the commonwealth and minors and others under legal disability to sue when their right of action first accrues may commence such action at any time within five years after the removal of the disability or after their return to the commonwealth. No entry, unless by judgment of law, shall be made upon land so sold, with a view to avoid the sale, unless within the times of limitation before prescribed for the commencement of an action.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 23 - Void Acts of Fiduciaries; Confirmation or Setting Aside

Section 23. If an act or proceeding of a person acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or in any other fiduciary capacity under an appointment or license of a probate court is void or voidable by reason of an irregularity or of want of jurisdiction or authority in the court which made the appointment or granted the license, any person interested in or affected by such act or proceeding may have the matter heard and determined by the supreme judicial court in equity, which may confirm or set aside, in whole or in part, the act or proceeding.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 24 - Doubtful Acts or Proceedings of Fiduciaries or Court; Ratification

Section 24. If the authority or validity of an act or proceeding of the probate court or of a person acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court, or trustee is drawn in question by reason of an alleged irregularity, defective notice or want of authority, any party interested in or affected by such act or proceeding may apply to the probate court having jurisdiction of the subject matter relative to which the act or proceeding has been had, and the court, after notice to all parties interested, and to the persons who may be the parents of such parties not in being, with power to appoint a guardian or next friend to represent the interests of any person unborn or unascertained, may hear and determine the matter and confirm the act or proceeding, in whole or in part, and may authorize and empower the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court, or trustee, or any successor or other person who may be legally appointed to act in the same capacity, to ratify and confirm such act or proceeding and to execute and deliver such deeds, releases, conveyances and other instruments as may be found necessary therefor; but no act or proceeding shall be ratified or confirmed which the court might not have passed or authorized in the first instance upon due proceedings.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 25 - Irregularly Appointed Fiduciary; Liability to Account

Section 25. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court whose appointment is invalid by reason of an irregularity or of want of jurisdiction or authority in the court which made it, shall account for all money, property or assets coming to his hands in said capacity as if the appointment had been regular and valid; and any bond given in pursuance of such appointment shall be valid and binding on the principals and sureties; and payments to or by a person so appointed, if in other respects properly made, may with the approval of the probate court be ratified and confirmed by the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee who is afterward legally appointed.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 26 - Notice of Sale; Failure of Proof; Remedy

Section 26. If an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer appointed by the probate court, or a person employed by him to give notice of sale of real estate, has failed to file an affidavit of such notice in the probate court and such affidavit cannot be obtained, the court may, upon petition of any person interested in real estate the title to which may be affected thereby, stating the particular failure complained of and averring that the affidavit cannot be obtained, order notice by publication to creditors of, and others interested in, the estate in the settlement of which the failure complained of occurred. If, upon return of such notice and after hearing, the court is satisfied that such notice was in fact given, it may make a decree to that effect.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 27 - Release; Powers

Section 27. A power of appointment, whether or not coupled with an interest, and whether or not existing at the time this section takes effect, and whether the power is held by the donee in an individual or in a fiduciary capacity, may be released, wholly or partially, by the donee thereof, unless otherwise expressly provided in the instrument creating the power. As used in sections twenty-seven to thirty-five, inclusive, the term power of appointment includes all powers which are in substance and effect powers of appointment regardless of the language used in creating them and whether they are: (a) general, special, or otherwise; (b) in gross, appendant, simply collateral, in trust, or otherwise; (c) exercisable by will, deed, deed or will, or instrument amending a trust, or otherwise; (d) exercisable presently or in the future.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 28 - Method of Release

Section 28. A power releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, may be released, wholly or partially, by the delivery of a written release executed by the donee of the power for consideration or under seal to any person who could be adversely affected by the exercise of the power, or to any person who alone or with another or others holds in trust property subject to the power, or, in the case of a power created by will, by the filing of such release in the registry of probate in the county in which such will was proved or allowed. No release of a power of appointment shall be valid as to land in the commonwealth subject to such power, except as against the releasor and persons having actual notice of the release, unless (a) in case of a power created by will or other written instrument, the release is acknowledged in the manner required in the case of deeds of land to entitle them to be recorded and is recorded in the registry of deeds for the county or district in which the land lies or, in the case of registered land, is filed and registered in the office of the assistant recorder for the registry district where the land lies or (b) in case of a power created by will, the release is filed in the registry of probate in the county in which such will was proved or allowed.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 29 - Effect and Scope of Release

Section 29. A release executed by the donee of a power releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, and delivered or filed in accordance with the first sentence of section twenty-eight, shall, subject to the second sentence of section twenty-eight, be effective to release the power to the extent in such release provided, whether it in substance provides for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power, or for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power otherwise than in respect of a part, therein defined, of the property subject to the power, or for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power otherwise than to or for the benefit of, in trust for, or in favor of a person or persons or class or classes of persons, therein specified, or an object or objects or class or classes of objects, therein defined.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 30 - Exercise of Power by Several Persons; Release by One; Effect

Section 30. If a power of appointment releasable according to section twenty-seven, or under common law, is or may be exercisable by two or more persons in conjunction with one another or successively, a release of the power, in whole or in part, executed, and delivered or filed, in accordance with the first sentence of section twenty-eight, by any one of the donees of the power, shall, subject to the second sentence of section twenty-eight, be effective to release, to the extent therein provided, all right of such person to exercise or to participate in the exercise of the power, but, unless the instrument creating the power otherwise provides, shall not prevent or limit the exercise or participation in the exercise thereof by the other donee or donees thereof.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 31 - Release; Definition

Section 31. The word ''release'', as used in sections twenty-eight to thirty, inclusive, shall include (1) an instrument wherein the person who executes it in substance states that he wholly releases, or agrees in no respect to exercise or participate in the exercise of, a power of appointment, and (2) an instrument wherein the person who executes it in substance states that he releases all right to exercise or participate in the exercise of a power of appointment otherwise than within limits therein defined or agrees not to exercise or participate in the exercise of a power of appointment otherwise than within limits therein defined.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 32 - Restraint of Alienation or Anticipation Provisions

Section 32. Release of a power of appointment otherwise releasable shall not be prevented merely by provisions in restraint of alienation or anticipation contained in the instrument creating the power.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 33 - Construction

Section 33. Sections twenty-seven to thirty-two, inclusive, shall so far as possible be deemed to be declaratory of the common law of this commonwealth. Said sections shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the intent that all powers of appointment whatsoever shall be releasable unless otherwise expressly provided in the instrument creating the power.
MA Gen L ch 204 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts|Chapter 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 35 - Release or Disclaimer; Construction

Section 35. Nothing in sections twenty-seven to thirty-four, inclusive, shall prevent the release in any lawful manner of any releasable power of appointment or the disclaimer in any lawful manner of any power of appointment.