Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 255 · 40 active provisions
Section 7D. No assignment of, or agreement affecting, the rights or interest of a landlord or owner of real property, occupied by a tenant or person planting on shares, in crops growing or to be grown on such real property, or agreement for the subordination of a prior lien or encumbrance on real or personal property,…
Section 12C. If any contract for sale of consumer goods on credit entered into in the commonwealth between a retail seller and a retail buyer requires or involves the execution of a promissory note, such note shall have printed on the face thereof the words ''consumer note'', and the holder of such a note cannot be a h…
Section 12F. As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Organization,'' a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, estate, partnership, cooperative, or association. ''Person related to,'' with respect to an indivi…
Section 12G. Except as otherwise provided in section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-five B, section fourteen A of chapter two hundred and fifty-five C and subsection C of section twenty-six of chapter two hundred and fifty-five D, in the event the charge or any portion thereof for life insurance under a policy is…
Section 12H. As used in this section the following words, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— ''Charge card'', any card, plate, coupon book, or other single device existing for the purpose of being used from time to time upon presentation to obtain goods or services and which is i…
Section 12J. No cause of action shall arise or be maintained against a seller, lessor, real estate broker or salesperson, lender or mortgagee of real property by statute or at common law, for failure to disclose to a buyer or tenant that the real property has been insulated with urea formaldehyde foam insulation.
Section 13I. (a) In any consumer credit transaction involving a loan that is secured by a non-possessory security interest in consumer goods a provision relating to default is enforceable only to the extent that the default is material and consists of the debtor's failure to make one or more payments as required by the…
Section 13J. (a) Subject to the provisions of this section a secured creditor under a consumer credit transaction may take possession of collateral. In taking possession the secured creditor under a consumer credit transaction may proceed without a prior hearing only if the default is material and consists of the debto…
Section 13K. Every written contract between a private occupational school, as defined in section 263 of chapter 112, or dance studio and any person who is to receive physical, mental or emotional benefit therefrom shall contain the following notice on the front of said contract above the place for the student's signatu…
Section 13L. Except as otherwise provided in section one hundred of chapter one hundred and forty, section sixteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-five B, section nineteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-five C, and subsection B of section thirteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-five D, if a loan contract, for pers…
Section 14. If by virtue of a contract, express or implied, with the owners of a vessel or with the agents, contractors or sub-contractors of such owners, or with any of them, or with a person who has been employed to construct, repair or launch a vessel or to assist therein, money is due for labor performed, materials…
Section 14A. If by virtue of a contract, express or implied, with the owners of a vessel of not more than forty feet in length, or with the agents, contractors or subcontractors of such owners, or with any of them, or with a person who has been employed to construct, repair or launch a vessel, or to store said vessel,…
Section 15. Such lien shall be dissolved unless the person claiming it within thirty days after the vessel departs from the port at which she was when the debt was contracted, files in the office of the clerk of the city or town where the vessel was at such time, a statement, subscribed and sworn to by him or by a pers…
Section 16. A place in which the vessel is wholly or partly constructed shall be held to be the port where she was when the debt was contracted. The lien shall not be affected by any inaccuracy in the description of the vessel, if she can be recognized thereby, nor in stating the amount due for labor or materials, unle…
Section 17. A person having such lien, unless the contract described in section fourteen or fourteen A, as the case may be, is a maritime contract and the enforcement of the lien is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, may enforce the lien by a civil action in the district court or in t…
Section 20. If money is due to more than one person holding such lien and all parties interested have been summoned to appear, the claims of all shall be marshalled, and the court shall make such order as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of a double lien for the same labor, materials, stores, storage, provis…
Section 21. If a contractor or sub-contractor unreasonably neglects or refuses to pay for labor procured by him to be performed in constructing, repairing or launching a vessel upon which a lien exists therefor and the owner or other person who made the agreement with such contractor or sub-contractor pays the debt sec…
Section 22. The eight preceding sections shall not affect any lien on foreign vessels which exists independent of statute.
Section 24. Persons having proper charges due them for pasturing, boarding or keeping horses or other domestic animals which are brought to their premises or placed in their care by or with the consent of the owners thereof shall have a lien on such animals for such charges.
Section 25. Persons maintaining public garages for the storage and care of motor vehicles brought to their premises or placed in their care by or with the consent of the owners thereof and persons engaged in performing work upon or in connection with the inspection, reconditioning and repairing of motor vehicles shall…
Section 25A. Persons maintaining manufactured housing communities for the rental of sites to be occupied by manufactured homes and vehicles, for the furnishing of facilities in connection therewith, and for the storage and care of manufactured homes brought to their premises or placed in their care by and with the cons…
Section 26. A person who has a lien, which is not described in sections fourteen to twenty-two, inclusive, or in chapter two hundred and fifty-four, for money due to him on account of work and labor, storage, care and diligence, or money expended on or about personal property under a contract express or implied, if suc…
Section 29. If, upon a default or a trial it is found that a lien exists upon the property and that the property ought to be sold for the satisfaction of the debt, the court may make an order for such sale, determine and record the amount then due and award costs to the prevailing party. Any proceeds of the sale remain…
Section 31. Sections twenty-four to twenty-nine, inclusive, shall not restrict the right of a person who has a lien upon property to hold or dispose of it in any other lawful manner.
Section 31A. A lien on account of work, labor and materials furnished in the spinning, throwing, manufacturing, bleaching, mercerizing, dyeing, printing, finishing or otherwise processing of cotton, wool, silk, artificial silk or synthetic fibers, or of leather goods or hides, or of goods of which cotton, wool, silk, a…