Title LIV, Executions, Levies, Bail, and the Relief of Poor Debtors

If sufficient goods or estate of the town or district are not found to satisfy the execution, an attested copy thereof may be left with one of the selectmen of the town, or with one of the school board of the school district, or one of the commissioners of the village district, a…

When a copy of an execution against a town is so left the selectmen shall pay it, or assess a tax upon the estate liable to taxation therein sufficient to satisfy it and the officer's fees thereon.

When a copy of an execution against a district is so left the school board or commissioners, as the case may be, shall pay it, or they shall call a meeting of the voters of the district, at which meeting they shall vote to raise the necessary sum to satisfy the execution and the …

When such town or district tax is so assessed it shall be collected within thirty days, and shall be applied in satisfaction of the execution.

If the selectmen, to whom such vote of the district is certified, neglect for thirty days to assess the district tax, and deliver to the collector their warrant for the collection thereof, such execution against the district may be levied upon the property of the selectmen.

If the execution is not paid within sixty days after an attested copy is left as aforesaid it may be levied as follows: against a town, upon the goods or estate of the selectmen; against a district, upon the goods or estate of the school board or of the commissioners, as the case…

In case a levy is begun upon the property of an inhabitant or nonresident, other than one of the selectmen or of the school board or commissioners, the superior court, upon application of the person whose property is so levied upon, or upon the application of any other property o…