HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3796        FILED ON: 1/16/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1656

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the Homestead Act..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 188 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 official edition, is hereby further amended by replacing the period at the end of subsection (6) with a semicolon and inserting after subsection (6) the following:   

(7 ) for a tort liability, for which the cause of action occurred prior to the acquisition of said estate of homestead.