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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Liens for Services to Horses
NOTE: Massachusetts has no liens specifically for veterinarian,
farrier or breeder services. However, the Massachusetts agister's
lien is broad enough to cover boarding costs for residential
veterinary, farrier or breeder services.
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAWS
PART III. COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL
CASES
TITLE IV. CERTAIN WRITS AND PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES
CHAPTER 255. MORTGAGES, CONDITIONAL SALES AND PLEDGES OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND LIENS THEREON OTHER LIENS
§ 24. Domestic animals; care and custody
Persons having proper charges due them for pasturing, boarding
or keeping horses or other domestic animals which are brought
to their premises or placed in their care by or with the
consent of the owners thereof shall have a lien on such
animals for such charges.
§ 26. Enforcement
A person who has a lien, which is not described in sections
fourteen to twenty-two, inclusive, or in chapter two hundred
and fifty-four, for money due to him on account of work
and labor, storage, care and diligence, or money expended
on or about personal property under a contract express or
implied, if such money is not paid, in the case of a lien
described in section twenty-four, twenty-five or twenty-five
A within ten days, or in other cases within sixty days,
after a demand in writing delivered to the debtor or left
at his usual place of abode, if within the commonwealth,
or mailed postpaid to him at his usual place of abode without
the commonwealth, may bring a civil action in the superior
court or in a district court within the jurisdiction of
which the plaintiff resides or has his usual place of business
to have the property sold to satisfy the debt.
§ 29. Order for sale
If, upon a default or a trial it is found that a lien exists
upon the property and that the property ought to be sold
for the satisfaction of the debt, the court may make an
order for such sale, determine and record the amount then
due and award costs to the prevailing party. Any proceeds
of the sale remaining after satisfying the debt, costs and
charges, shall be paid to the owner upon demand.
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