GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

CHAPTER 260. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

LIMITATION OF PERSONAL ACTIONS.

Chapter 260, Section 1. Limitation of personal actions; twenty years.

Chapter 260, Section 2. Six years.

Chapter 260, Section 2A. Three years; actions of tort, contract to recover for personal injuries and replevin.

Chapter 260, Section 2B. Three and six years; actions of tort arising out of improvements to real property.

Chapter 260, Section 2C. Actions for damages, etc. for physical alteration or destruction of fine art.

Chapter 260, Section 2D. Actions to recover costs of asbestos related corrective actions.

Chapter 260, Section 2E. Actions against dalkon shield claimants trust.

Chapter 260, Section 3. Four years.

Chapter 260, Section 3A. Claims against commonwealth.

Chapter 260, Section 4. Three years in certain tort or contract actions.

Chapter 260, Section 4A. Back wages, actions to recover.

Chapter 260, Section 4B. Hit and run accidents.

Chapter 260, Section 4C. Sexual abuse of a minor; statute of limitations.

Chapter 260, Section 5. Penalties and forfeitures.

Chapter 260, Section 5A. Consumer protection actions.

Chapter 260, Section 5B. Civil rights actions.

Chapter 260, Section 6. Mutual current account.

Chapter 260, Section 7. Minors and incapacitated persons.

Chapter 260, Section 8. Disabilities; enemy aliens.

Chapter 260, Section 9. Nonresident defendant; suspension of limitation.

Chapter 260, Section 10. Death of party; effect.

Chapter 260, Section 11. Contracts of fiduciaries.

Chapter 260, Section 12. Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations.

Chapter 260, Section 13. Acknowledgment or new promise; effect.

Chapter 260, Section 14. Part payment; effect.

Chapter 260, Section 15. Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor, etc.; effect.

Chapter 260, Section 16. Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; judgment.

Chapter 260, Section 17. Action not to be dismissed for failure to join barred party defendant.

Chapter 260, Section 18. Actions by state; laws applicable.

Chapter 260, Section 19. Special limitations.

Chapter 260, Section 20. Presumption of satisfaction of judgment.

LIMITATION OF REAL ACTIONS AND RIGHTS OF ENTRY.

Chapter 260, Section 21. Limitation of actions for recovery of land.

Chapter 260, Section 22. Twenty year period; commencement.

Chapter 260, Section 23--27. Repealed, 1979, 402, Sec. 3.

Chapter 260, Section 28. Effectual entry; requisites.

Chapter 260, Section 29. Estates tail; barring remainders and reversions.

Chapter 260, Section 30. Estates tail; death of tenant; effect.

Chapter 260, Section 31. Actions by commonwealth.

Chapter 260, Section 31A. Right of entry for condition broken or possibility of reverter; procedure.

PROCEEDINGS UPON FAILURE OF ORIGINAL ACTION.

Chapter 260, Section 32. Proceedings upon failure of original action; general provisions.

LIMITATION OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES.

Chapter 260, Section 33. Limitation on mortgage foreclosures; obsolete mortgages.

Chapter 260, Section 34. Extension of mortgage; acknowledgment that mortgage not satisfied, etc..

Chapter 260, Section 35. Mortgage defined; commencement of proceedings, prerequisites; application of secs. 33—35.

LIMITATION OF COUNTERCLAIMS.

Chapter 260, Section 36. Limitation of counterclaims; application; computation.


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