Massachusetts

For Massachusetts, does payment or acknowledgment revive the clock is A signed writing restarts the clock; payment not addressed; how the statute states the rule is No acknowledgment or promise shall be evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take an action of contract out of the operation of this chapter or to deprive a party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise has been made by, or is contained in, a writing signed by the party chargeable thereby; section is Chapter 260, Section 13, recorded from its source on 2026-09-01.

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What the source says

Section 13. No acknowledgment or promise shall be evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take an action of contract out of the operation of this chapter or to deprive a party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise has been made by, or is contained in, a writing signed by the party chargeable thereby.

— malegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

Where each value comes from

The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.

— all from malegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

Source

• malegislature.govhttps://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleV/Chapter260/Section13

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