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  • PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
    (Chapters 211 through 262)
  • TITLE II ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS THEREIN
  • CHAPTER 227 PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ABSENT DEFENDANTS AND UPON INSUFFICIENT SERVICE
  • Section 16 Real actions; absence of one of several defendants

Section 16. Real actions against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth, shall be conducted relative to him as if he were the sole defendant.