Massachusetts Statutes

§ 12 — Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations

Massachusetts § 12
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IIICOURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
Title VSTATUTES OF FRAUDS AND LIMITATIONS
Ch. 260LIMITATION OF ACTIONS

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 12 (2026).

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Section 12. If a person liable to a personal action fraudulently conceals the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled to bring it, the period prior to the discovery of his cause of action by the person so entitled shall be excluded in determining the time limited for the commencement of the action.

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