Chapter 223 - COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS, SERVICE OF PROCESS

Section 223:1 - Transitory actions; general provisions
Section 223:2 - Transitory actions; district courts
Section 223:2A - Consolidation of pending actions arising out of same accident or transaction
Section 223:2B - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction pending in both superior and district courts; transfer to superior court
Section 223:2C - Actions arising out of same accident or transaction; procedure after transfer
Section 223:3 - Transitory actions; enumeration
Section 223:4 - Replevin actions
Section 223:5 - Actions by the commonwealth
Section 223:6 - Counties; actions by or against
Section 223:7 - Defective ways, etc.; negligence actions
Section 223:8 - Corporations; actions by or against
Section 223:8A - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; transitory actions by or against subscribers
Section 223:9 - Transitory actions by or against city of Boston
Section 223:10 - Actions by city of Boston; transfer from county of Suffolk
Section 223:11 - Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against
Section 223:12 - Land title actions
Section 223:13 - Change of venue
Section 223:14 - Forfeitures
Section 223:15 - Erroneous venue; procedure
Section 223:19 - Process; unknown defendant; procedure
Section 223:20 - Process; issuance
Section 223:31 - Summons; leaving at last known address, etc.
Section 223:31A - Summons; service upon persons engaged in voting
Section 223:34 - Further notice to absent defendant
Section 223:35 - Process; duty of officer to state place of service in return
Section 223:37 - Corporations; persons authorized to be served
Section 223:38 - Foreign corporations
Section 223:39 - Foreign insurance company; manner of service
Section 223:39A - Service on certain insurance companies severally, or jointly and severally, liable
Section 223:39B - Reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange; service on attorney in fact of subscribers
Section 223:40 - Voluntary associations, service on
Section 223:42 - Property subject to attachment
Section 223:42A - Amount liquidated or ascertainable by calculation; limitation on attachment
Section 223:43 - Cars and vessels; attachment
Section 223:44 - Ships or vessels; conditions precedent
Section 223:44A - Motor vehicles; conditions precedent
Section 223:45 - Property of newspaper offices
Section 223:45A - Attaching officer; powers to require security
Section 223:47 - Successive attachments on different writs
Section 223:48 - Keeper; appointment; costs
Section 223:49 - Attached personalty; keeping on owner's premises
Section 223:50 - Bulky goods
Section 223:51 - [Repealed]
Section 223:52 - Personalty; attachment of proceeds of sale
Section 223:53 - Further attachment of replevied property
Section 223:54 - Replevin; liability of plaintiff for value
Section 223:55 - Death or removal of first attaching officer
Section 223:56 - Death or removal of first attaching officer; procedure in subsequent attachment
Section 223:57 - Replevied property; mode of attaching
Section 223:58 - Death of attaching officer; continuance of attachment
Section 223:59 - Duration of attachment after judgment
Section 223:62 - Attachment of real estate; general provisions
Section 223:63 - Copy of writ; deposit in registry of deeds
Section 223:64 - Attaching officer; duty
Section 223:65 - Register; duty; fees
Section 223:66 - Attachment; time of taking effect
Section 223:67 - Fraudulently conveyed realty; general provisions
Section 223:68 - Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register
Section 223:69 - Papers in actions in federal courts; duties of registers
Section 223:70 - Encumbered realty
Section 223:71 - Attachment of shares of stock prohibited
Section 223:72 - Limitations on attachment of bailed property
Section 223:73 - Carrier or warehouseman; property in possession
Section 223:74 - Attachment of personalty mortgaged or sold under conditional sales contract
Section 223:75 - Mortgagee, lienor, or conditional vendor; duty to state account
Section 223:76 - Excessive demands; penalty
Section 223:77 - Proceeds of sale; payment of creditors
Section 223:78 - Redemption of mortgage; duty of debtor to repay redemption price
Section 223:79 - Holder of encumbrance; summoning; examination
Section 223:80 - Amount due; determination
Section 223:81 - Validity of mortgage; determination
Section 223:82 - Creditor to retain amount paid by him
Section 223:83 - Creditor; right to hold property until repaid upon failure to recover judgment
Section 223:83A - Application of secs. 74 to 83
Section 223:84 - Insufficient service of process; dismissal of action or further service
Section 223:86A - Equitable attachments; allowance after entry of judgment
Section 223:87 - Sale of personal property attached; general provisions
Section 223:88 - Perishable property; appraisal and sale
Section 223:89 - Perishable property; appraisal and sale; proceedings
Section 223:90 - Absent defendant; notice
Section 223:91 - Appraisers; manner of appointment
Section 223:92 - Perishable property; sale after appraisal
Section 223:93 - Perishable property; delivery to debtor; condition
Section 223:94 - Bond; duty to return with writs
Section 223:95 - Action on bond; executions for costs against attaching creditors
Section 223:97 - Action on bond; distribution of money by court
Section 223:98 - Action on bond; protection of prior attachments
Section 223:99 - Action on bond; right of creditor not joining
Section 223:100 - Action on bond; limitation
Section 223:101 - Creditors; payment and satisfaction
Section 223:102 - Attachment of share of joint owner of personalty; appraisal at request of part owner
Section 223:103 - Delivery to part owner; conditions precedent
Section 223:104 - Pledge of property
Section 223:105 - Restoration
Section 223:106 - Dissolution of prior attachment: section application
Section 223:107 - Affidavit and bond
Section 223:108 - Dissolution of prior attachment; finding of court
Section 223:109 - Dissolution of prior attachment; effect of pleadings
Section 223:110 - Dissolution of prior attachment; defences
Section 223:111 - Costs; damages
Section 223:112 - Proceeding upon appeal
Section 223:113 - Judgment; force and effect
Section 223:113A - Method of dissolving, discharging or reducing attachments
Section 223:114 - Excessive or unreasonable attachments; manner of reduction or discharge
Section 223:114A - Real estate attachments; expiration by operation of law
Section 223:115 - Judgment dissolving attachment
Section 223:115A - Failure of service upon defendant
Section 223:116 - Death of defendant
Section 223:117 - Attaching officer; liability for net proceeds
Section 223:118 - Liability of creditor for proceeds paid over to him
Section 223:119 - Counterclaim
Section 223:120 - Dissolution by bond; general provisions
Section 223:121 - Bond; hearing before approval
Section 223:122 - Debtor's fees and costs
Section 223:123 - Debtor's bond; filing
Section 223:124 - Release of sureties of insolvent debtor
Section 223:125 - Bond to pay value of property
Section 223:126 - Fees
Section 223:127 - Fraudulently conveyed realty
Section 223:128 - Deposit
Section 223:129 - Individual property of one defendant
Section 223:129A - Attaching officer; liability for release of attached property
Section 223:130 - Dissolution by appointment of receiver; general provisions
Section 223:131 - Discharge of receiver
Section 223:132 - Dissolution by release by plaintiff
Section 223:133 - Persons authorized to execute bonds; approval