The Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

Passed November 4, 1835 : to which are Subjoined, an Act in Amendment Thereof, and an Act Expressly to Repeal the Acts which are Consolidated Therein, Both Passed in February 1836 : and to which are Prefixed, the Constitutions of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Google eBook)

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Index

PART I	19

OF THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERN	56

OF ELECTIONS OTHER THAN OF MILITIA TOWN AND PARISH	62

Of the election of representatives in Congress	68

OF THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF STATE TAXES AND	74

Of the collection of taxes	82

Of taxes on banks and on sales by auction	89

TITLE IV	95

Of the sale of land of nlinors and other persons	459

TITLE VI	472

Of divorce	479

Of parents and children	487

Of masters apprentices and servants	494

PART III	498

Of the court of common pleas	507

Of the probate court	514

OF CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS	146

TITLE VI	157

OF TOWNS AND TOWN OFFICERS	174

Of workhouses in towns	186

Offences and fence viewers of pounds and the	195

OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH	207

TITLE X	217

OF HIGHWAYS BRIDGES AND FERRIES AND OF TOWN WAYS Chapter 24 Of laying out highways town ways and private ways and the discont...	228

Of the repair of ways and bridges	242

Of the regulation of ferries	249

Of common sewers and drains in highways and other places	251

OF THE REGULATION OF TRADE IN CERTAIN CASES Chapter 28 Of the inspection of provisions and other merchan dize and regulations respe...	252

Of sales by auctioneers	286

Of weights and measures	288

Of the weighing of lighters and other vessels employ ed in transporting stonegravel and sand	292

Of shipping ship owners and charterers and of pilotage	294

Of bills of exchange and promissory notes	302

Of limited partnerships	304

General provisions respecting trade	306

TITLE XIII	308

Of insurance companies	320

Of manufacturing corporations	327

Of turnpike railroad and canal corporations	334

Of aqueduct corporations	350

Of library corporations and lyceums	352

Of agricultural corporations	354

Of proprietors of lands wharves general fields and other real estate lying in common	356

General provisions respecting corporations	362

TITLE XIV	363

OF THE INTERNAL POLICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH	366

Of the settlement of paupers	367

Of the support of paupers	369

Of the regulation of licensed houses	375

Of the maintenance of bastard children	383

Of timber floating on rivers or carried upon adjoin	389

Of lost goods and stray beasts	395

PART II	404

OF TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY BY DESCENT	413

OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS	421

Of the payment of debts and legacies of deceased per	430

Of the proceedings when the estate of a deceased per	438

General provisions concerning the settlement of	445

TITLE V	451

Of county commissioners	524

Of justices of the peace	526

Of the municipal court of the city of Boston	531

Of police courts 583	533

Of clerks attorneys and other officers of courts	539

General provisions concerning courts and judicial offi cers	544

TITLE II	545

Of bail in civil actions	561

Of proceedings when the defendant does not appear and answer to the suit	564

Of death marriage or other disability occuring after the commencement of the suit	566

Of witnesses and evidence	570

Of juries	578

Of trial and its incidents	583

Of judgment and execution	586

Of the relief of poor prisoners committed on execution for debt	595

Of writs of review	602

General provisions concerning actions	605

OF ACTIONS RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY CHAPTER 101 Of the writ of entry for the recovery of the freehold	609

Of the writ of dower	616

Of the partition of lauds owned by several persons	617

Of forcible entry and detainer	627

Of waste and trespass on real estate	629

Of actions for private nuisances	632

Of suits to foreclose and to redeem mortgages	633

Of informations of intrusion and informations	640

Of suits by and against executors and administrators	653

Of writs of audita querela of error and of certiorari	660

Of reference to arbitration by agreement before	670

Of the lien of mechanics and others for the cost	684

OF THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS	695

OF COSTS AND THE FEES OF OFFICERS	702

PART IV	714

Of offences against the sovereignty of the Common	715

Of forgery and counterfeiting	728

Of offences against the public peace 787	737

Of offences against public policy	743

Of the arrest and examination of offenders commit	751

Of trials in criminal cases	760

Of coroners inquests	768

TITLE III	777

General provisions concerning imprisonment in crim	798

AN ACT to repeal expressly all the acts which are consolidatedin	813

INDEX	835

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Title	The Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Passed November 4, 1835 : to which are Subjoined, an Act in Amendment Thereof, and an Act Expressly to Repeal the Acts which are Consolidated Therein, Both Passed in February 1836 : and to which are Prefixed, the Constitutions of the ...
Author	Massachusetts
Editors	Theron Metcalf, Horace Mann, Luther Stearns Cushing
Contributors	Theron Metcalf, Horace Mann
Publisher	Dutton & Wentworth, 1836
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	25 Aug 2006
Length	1007 pages

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