Chapter 236

Section 54. Land taken as provided in the preceding section may be redeemed by the executor, administrator, heir or devisee of the deceased, or by any person lawfully claiming under him or them, in like manner as if the land had been taken on an execution against the deceased in …

Section 6. The officer shall cause the land to be appraised by three disinterested persons, to be appointed, one by the creditor, one by the debtor whose land is taken or, if the debtor is absent from or does not reside in the commonwealth, by his agent or attorney if he has any …

Section 7. The appraisers shall be sworn, before a justice of the peace or the officer, faithfully and impartially to appraise the land shown to them as taken on the execution, shall, with the officer, view the same and shall make such examination of it as may be necessary to for…

Section 8. The value of the estate of the debtor shall be appraised as an estate in fee simple in possession, unless it is expressly stated in the description endorsed on the execution to be a less estate. All the freehold estate and interest which the debtor has in the land shal…

Section 9. If a right of redeeming mortgaged land is taken and set off on execution, the appraisers shall deduct the value of the encumbrance or the amount of the mortgage debt, when known, from the appraised value of the land, and the amount so deducted shall be stated in the re…