Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 278 § 9
Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session
In the prosecution of crimes which relate to or affect real or personal estate, it shall be sufficient, and shall not be a variance, if it is proved on the trial that, at the time when the crime was committed, either the actual or constructive possession or the general or special property in the whole or any part of such real or personal estate was in the person or community alleged to be the owner thereof.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 278, § 9