GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

CHAPTER 228. SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS AND DEATH AND DISABILITIES OF PARTIES.

SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS.

Chapter 228, Section 1. Enumeration of actions which survive.

PERSONAL ACTIONS.

Chapter 228, Section 2. Death of party in suit against officer.

Chapter 228, Section 3. Judgment for or against executor or administrator of officer.

Chapter 228, Section 4. Death of sole plaintiff or defendant.

Chapter 228, Section 4A. Substitution of executor or administrator.

Chapter 228, Section 5. Prosecution or defense of actions by executor or administrator; citation.

Chapter 228, Section 5A. Commencement of action for order to executor or administrator to appear and defend notwithstanding failure to take out citation within time limit of preceding section; further orders for determination on merits.

Chapter 228, Section 5B. Failure of legal representative to give timely notice of death to plaintiff as ground for relief authorized by sec. 5A.

Chapter 228, Section 5C. Prior payment or distribution unaffected by relief authorized by sec. 5A or rules of civil procedure.

Chapter 228, Section 6. Nonsuit or default.

Chapter 228, Section 7. Death of joint plaintiff or defendant.

REAL AND MIXED ACTIONS.

Chapter 228, Section 8. Prosecution of real and mixed actions by devisee or heir.

Chapter 228, Section 9. Death of one of several plaintiffs.

Chapter 228, Section 10. Prosecution by survivor.

Chapter 228, Section 11. Death of defendant.

SUITS IN EQUITY.

Chapter 228, Section 12. Repealed, 1975, 377, Sec. 67.

INSANITY.

Chapter 228, Section 13. Insanity; general provisions.

REMOVAL, DEATH, ETC., OF PUBLIC OFFICER, ETC.

Chapter 228, Section 14. Removal, etc., of public officer; general provisions.

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