Massachusetts § 7 Judgments; effect

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 7 — Judgments; effect

Massachusetts § 7

Part IIICOURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES

Title IIIREMEDIES RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY

Ch. 239SUMMARY PROCESS FOR POSSESSION OF LAND

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 239, § 7 (2026).

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Section 7. The judgment in an action under this chapter shall not be a bar to any action thereafter brought by either party to recover the land or tenements in question, or to recover damages for any trespass thereon; but the amount recovered for rent under section five shall be deducted in any assessment of damages in such subsequent action by the original plaintiff.

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