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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  1. General Laws
  2. Part III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
  3. Title V STATUTES OF FRAUDS AND LIMITATIONS
  4. Chapter 260 LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
  5. Section 12 Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations

Section 12

Section 12: Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations

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.