GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

TITLE III.
REMEDIES RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.

CHAPTER 237. WRITS OF ENTRY.

Chapter 237, Section 1. Estates recoverable.

Chapter 237, Section 2. Action to recover freehold estates against commonwealth.

Chapter 237, Section 3. Form of declaration.

Chapter 237, Section 4. Actual entry; seisin; proof; right of entry.

Chapter 237, Section 5. Manner of prosecuting action.

Chapter 237, Section 6. Disseisors.

Chapter 237, Section 7. Actual ouster; effect.

Chapter 237, Section 8. Joint tenants; tenants in common; actions.

Chapter 237, Section 9. Laws and rules governing.

Chapter 237, Section 10. Pleas in answer.

Chapter 237, Section 11. Parts or portions recoverable.

Chapter 237, Section 12. Rents; profits; destruction or waste.

Chapter 237, Section 13. Measure of damages.

Chapter 237, Section 14. Use of improvements not element of damages.

Chapter 237, Section 15. Limitation of defendant's liability.

Chapter 237, Section 16. Improvements.

Chapter 237, Section 17. Possession under supposedly good title; effect.

Chapter 237, Section 18. Counterclaim.

Chapter 237, Section 19. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 228.

Chapter 237, Section 20. Limitation of allowances.


ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES AND ALLOWANCE.

Chapter 237, Section 21. Court assessments; postponements.

Chapter 237, Section 22. Jury assessments; postponements.

Chapter 237, Section 23. Resumption of procedure for assessment by jury.

Chapter 237, Section 24. Waiver of jury trial.

Chapter 237, Section 25. Assessment by assessors.

Chapter 237, Section 26. Judgments to both parties.

Chapter 237, Section 27. Excess of improvements over rents and profits; effect.

Chapter 237, Section 28. Payment of balance due defendant.

Chapter 237, Section 29. Writ of seisin before judgment.

Chapter 237, Section 30. Collection of balance due defendant.

Chapter 237, Section 31. Valuation without considering improvements.

Chapter 237, Section 32. Relinquishment of estate; recording election.

Chapter 237, Section 33. Relinquishment of estate; effect; payments by defendant.

Chapter 237, Section 34. Nonpayment by defendant; effect.

Chapter 237, Section 35. Failure of title to relinquished land; remedies; notice.

Chapter 237, Section 36. Effect on mode of payment.

Chapter 237, Section 37. Writ of seisin.

Chapter 237, Section 38. Recovery by life tenant from remainderman, etc.

Chapter 237, Section 39. Amount due from remainderman; determination.

Chapter 237, Section 40. Limitation on amount recoverable.

Chapter 237, Section 41. Time for bringing action; limitation.


EXECUTION TO BE RECORDED.

Chapter 237, Section 42. Recording execution for possession and return.


APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.

Chapter 237, Section 43. Actions for mesne profits or damage to land.

Chapter 237, Section 44. Actions by mortgagees.


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