Massachusetts § 3 Insolvent debtor; new promise; necessity of writing

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 3 — Insolvent debtor; new promise; necessity of writing

Massachusetts § 3

Part IIICOURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES

Title VSTATUTES OF FRAUDS AND LIMITATIONS

Ch. 259PREVENTION OF FRAUDS AND PERJURIES

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 259, § 3 (2026).

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Section 3. No promise for the payment of a debt, made by an insolvent debtor who has obtained his discharge from such debt under proceedings in bankruptcy or insolvency, shall be evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to deprive the debtor of the benefit of relying upon such discharge in bar of the recovery of a judgment upon such debt, unless such promise is made by or contained in some writing signed by him, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.

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Section 3. No promise for the payment of a debt, made by an insolvent debtor who has obtained his discharge from such debt under proceedings in bankruptcy or insolvency, shall be evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to deprive the debtor of the benefit of relying upon such discharge in bar of the recovery of a judgment upon such debt, unless such promise is made by or contained in some writing signed by him, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.

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