Massachusetts Statutes

§ 15 — Action by state in behalf of private parties; effect on costs

Massachusetts § 15
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IIICOURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
Title VICOSTS AND FEES
Ch. 261COSTS IN CIVIL ACTIONS

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 261, § 15 (2026).

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Section 15. A private person at whose relation, for whose use or in whose behalf an action or proceeding is commenced in the name of the commonwealth or of the attorney general shall be liable for costs, as if it had been begun in his own name.

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