Massachusetts Statutes

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Abandoned leased space'', (i) a leased space that the operator finds unlocked and empty or unlocked and containing personal property with a…

Section 2. The operator may only lease space in a self-service storage facility by entering in to a rental agreement with an occupant. An operator may not knowingly permit a leased space at a self-service storage facility to be used for residential purposes. An occupant may not u…

Section 3. The operator of a self-service storage facility shall have a lien on all personal property stored within each leased space for rent, labor, insurance or other charges in relationship to the property for expenses necessary for the preservation of the property or reasona…

Section 4. After default, an operator's lien may be enforced by selling the property stored in the leased space at a public or private sale, but only in accordance with the following procedure: (1) No sooner than five days after such default, the occupant and all other persons kn…

Section 5. If an occupant is in default for a period of five days or more, the operator may deny the occupant access to the leased space in a reasonable and peaceable manner; provided, however, that the occupant may have access at any time for the sole purpose of viewing the cont…

Section 6. Unless otherwise specifically provided, all notices required by this chapter shall be sent by verified mail or electronic mail. Notices sent to the operator shall be sent to the self-service storage facility where the occupant's property is stored. Notices to the occup…

Section 7. Except as otherwise provided herein or as stated in the rental agreement, the exclusive care, custody and control of all property stored in the leased self-service space shall vest in the occupant until a lien sale under the provisions of this chapter.

Section 8. Any violation by an operator of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed unfair or deceptive acts or trade practices under the provisions of chapter ninety-three A.

Section 9. In the case of an abandoned leased space, the operator shall have the right to take possession of the leased space after 14 days and dispose of any personal property in the leased space by any means so long as the operator has attempted to contact the occupant on 2 sep…

Section 1. The money of account of the commonwealth shall be the dollar, cent and mill. Proceedings in court, accounts in the public offices and other public accounts shall be had and kept in accordance herewith.

Section 10. In an action on a contract, other than a bill of exchange, for the payment of money beyond the limits of the United States, the amount to be recovered by the creditor shall be determined by the current rate of exchange on the date when such contract becomes due, with …

Section 13. The protest of a bill of exchange, promissory note or order for the payment of money certified by a notary public under his hand and official seal shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such protest, and of the giving of notice to the drawer or endorser.

Section 2. The preceding section shall not vitiate or affect an account, charge or entry made, or a note, bond or other instrument expressed in any other money of account; but in a suit thereon such other money shall be reduced to dollars and fractions thereof.

Section 3. If there is no agreement or provision of law for a different rate, the interest of money shall be at the rate of six dollars on each hundred for a year, but, except as provided in sections seventy-eight, ninety, ninety-two, ninety-six and one hundred of chapter one hun…

Section 4. A county, city, town or district or any corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth may, at the request of the owner or holder of a bond, promissory note or certificate of indebtedness issued by it payable to bearer, at any time more than one year before m…

Section 45A. The treasurer of a public body shall, without further authority than that contained in this section, have power to use a facsimile machine for the purpose of affixing his signature to any check drawn by him in the name and behalf of the public body on any bank or tru…

Section 7. No person shall issue, negotiate or sell any bonds, certificates or obligations of any kind, which are by the terms thereof to be redeemed in numerical order or in any arbitrary order of precedence without reference to the amount previously paid thereon by the holder t…

Section 8. Violations of the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year. Any such violation, if by a domestic corporation, shall operate as a forfeiture of its franchise and, if by a foreign co…

Section 42. An officer, agent or servant of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues, or aids in issuing, a bill of lading knowing that all or any part of the goods for which it is issued have not been received by the carrier, or by an agent of such carrier or by a connecting…

Section 43. An officer, agent, or servant of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues, or aids in issuing, a bill for goods, knowing that it contains a false statement, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one …

Section 44. An officer, agent or servant of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues, or aids in issuing, a duplicate or additional negotiable bill for goods in violation of section seven—four hundred and two of chapter one hundred and six, knowing that a former negotiable bi…

Section 45. A person who ships goods to which he has not title, or upon which there is a lien or mortgage, and who takes for such goods a negotiable bill which he afterward negotiates for value with intent to deceive, and without disclosing his want of title or the existence of t…

Section 46. A person who with intent to deceive negotiates or transfers for value a bill, knowing that any or all of the goods which by its terms appear to have been received for transportation by the carrier which issued the bill, are not in the possession or control of such car…

Section 47. A person who with intent to defraud secures the issue by a carrier of a bill, knowing that at the time of such issue, any or all of the goods described in such bill as received for transportation have not been so received by such carrier, or by an agent of such carrie…

Section 48. A person who with intent to defraud issues, or aids in issuing, a non-negotiable bill without the words ''not negotiable'' placed plainly upon the face thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for …

Section 1. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Partnership Act.

Section 10. (1) Where title to real property is in the partnership name, any partner may convey title to such property by a conveyance executed in the partnership name; but the partnership may recover such property unless the partner's act binds the partnership under the provisio…

Section 11. An admission or representation made by any partner concerning partnership affairs within the scope of his authority as conferred by this chapter is evidence against the partnership.

Section 12. Notice to any partner of any matter relating to partnership affairs, and the knowledge of the partner acting in the particular matter, acquired while a partner or then present to his mind, and the knowledge of any other partner who reasonably could and should have com…

Section 13. Where, by any wrongful act or omission of any partner acting in the ordinary course of the business of the partnership, or with the authority of his co-partners, loss or injury is caused to any person, not being a partner in the partnership, or any penalty is incurred…

Section 14. The partnership is bound to make good the loss: (a) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives money or property of a third person and misapplies it; and (b) Where the partnership in the course of its business receives money or proper…

Section 15. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), all partners are liable: (a) Jointly and severally for everything chargeable to the partnership under sections thirteen and fourteen. (b) Jointly for all other debts and obligations of the partnership; but any partner may enter…

Section 16. (1) When a person, by words spoken or written or by conduct, represents himself, or consents to another representing him to any one, as a partner in an existing partnership or with one or more persons not actual partners, he is liable to any such person to whom such r…

Section 17. A person admitted as a partner into an existing partnership is liable for all the obligations of the partnership arising before his admission as though he had been a partner when such obligations were incurred, except that this liability shall be satisfied only out of…

Section 18. The rights and duties of the partners in relation to the partnership shall be determined, subject to any agreement between them, by the following rules: (a) Each partner shall be repaid his contributions, whether by way of capital or advances to the partnership proper…

Section 19. The partnership books shall be kept, subject to any agreement between the partners, at the principal place of business of the partnership, and every partner shall at all times have access to and may inspect and copy any of them.

Section 2. In this chapter, ''court'' includes every court and judge having jurisdiction in the case. ''Business'' includes every trade, occupation, or profession. ''Bankrupt'' includes bankrupt under the Federal Bankruptcy Act or insolvent under any state insolvent law. ''Convey…

Section 20. Partners shall render on demand true and full information of all things affecting the partnership to any partner or the legal representative of any deceased partner or partner under legal disability.

Section 21. (1) Every partner must account to the partnership for any benefit, and hold as trustee for it any profits derived by him without the consent of the other partners from any transaction connected with the formation, conduct or liquidation of the partnership or from any …

Section 22. Any partner shall have the right to a formal account as to partnership affairs: (a) If he is wrongfully excluded from the partnership business or possession of its property by his co-partners, (b) If the right exists under the terms of any agreement, (c) As provided b…

Section 23. (1) When a partnership for a fixed term or particular undertaking is continued after the termination of such term or particular undertaking without any express agreement, the rights and duties of the partners remain the same as they were at such termination, so far as…

Section 24. The property rights of a partner are (1) his rights in specific partnership property, (2) his interest in the partnership, and (3) his right to participate in the management.

Section 25. (1) A partner is co-owner with his partners of specific partnership property holding as a tenant in partnership. (2) The incidents of this tenancy are such that: (a) A partner, subject to the provisions of this chapter and to any agreement between the partners, has an…

Section 26. A partner's interest in the partnership is his share of the profits and surplus, and the same is personal property.

Section 27. (1) A conveyance by a partner of his interest in the partnership does not of itself dissolve the partnership, nor, as against the other partners in the absence of agreement, entitle the assignee, during the continuance of the partnership, to interfere in the managemen…

Section 28. (1) On due application to the superior court by any judgment creditor of a partner, such court may charge the interest of the debtor partner with payment of the unsatisfied amount of such judgment debt with interest thereon; and may then or later appoint a receiver of…