Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 18 (2026)
Actions by state; laws applicable
✓ text as last checked Sept. 2026 (this copy records no edition or section history)
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
MAmalegislature.gov (official)
JustiaChapter on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
Section 18. The limitations of the preceding sections of this chapter, and of section thirty-two so far as applicable to personal actions, shall apply to actions brought by or for the commonwealth.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1982–2018 · leading case: Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Constr., Inc., 105 N.E.3d 224 (Mass. 2018).
Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Constr., Inc., 105 N.E.3d 224 (Mass. 2018). “260, the consent section does not distinguish between the conventional statutes of limitations that appear in other sections of c. 260 and the statute of repose, which appears in § 2B.”
Treasurer & Receiver Gen. v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins., 446 N.E.2d 1376 (Mass. 1983). “260, § 2A, 15 and applicable to the Commonwealth under G. L. c. 260, § 18. Under this argument, the Treasurer would be barred from recovering most of the funds reportable before 1980.”
Commonwealth v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 650 N.E.2d 365 (Mass. App. Ct. 1995). “The statutory expression of that principle appears in G. L. c. 260, § 18, which provides that “[t]he limitations of the preceding sections of this chapter .”
Econ. Dev. & Indus. Corp. v. United States, 546 F. Supp. 1204 (D. Mass. 1982). “G.L. c. 260, § 18, it adds little to the present inquiry.”
Town of Framingham v. Natick Mall, LLC, 28 Mass. L. Rptr. 540 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2011). “G.L.c. 260, §18, which expressly makes the statutes of limitations in Chapter 260 applicable to the Commonwealth, also applies to a municipality.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.