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The 194th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  1. General Laws
  2. Part III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
  3. Title IV CERTAIN WRITS AND PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES
  4. Chapter 246 TRUSTEE PROCESS
  5. Section 78 Action against defaulting trustee; costs, nonliability, recovery precluded

Section 78

Section 78: Action against defaulting trustee; costs, nonliability, recovery precluded

Section 78. He shall not be liable for costs under section seventy-seven, nor shall he be entitled to recover costs, if the court finds that he had goods, effects or credits in his hands liable to attachment, and has paid and delivered, on the execution issued on the original judgment, the full amount thereof.