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Section 1 - Acts or Ceremonies Necessary for Conveyance by Deed - Section 1. A deed executed and delivered by the person,...
Section 1a - Instruments Not Under Seal - Section 1A. No instrument purporting to affect an interest in...
Section 2 - Estate Conveyed by Quitclaim Deed - Section 2. A deed of quitclaim and release shall be...
Section 3 - Estate Created Without Instrument in Writing - Section 3. An estate or interest in land created without...
Section 4 - Effect of Recordation or Actual Notice of Deeds or Leases, or of Assignments of Rents or Profits - Section 4. A conveyance of an estate in fee simple,...
Section 5 - Recording of Instruments; Evidence of Delivery - Section 5. The record of a deed, lease, power of...
Section 5a - Recording of Statements Relating to Title; Use as Evidence - Section 5A. A statement of a person's married or unmarried...
Section 5b - Affidavits Relating to Title; Recording - Section 5B. Subject to section 15 of chapter 184, an...
Section 6 - Name and Address of Grantee; Recital of Consideration; Failure to Comply - Section 6. Every deed presented for record shall contain or...
Section 6a - Instruments Conveying Unregistered Land; Sufficient Description or Identification; Recording; Failure to Comply - Section 6A. No instrument conveying unregistered land shall be accepted...
Section 6b - Address of Property Affected - Section 6B. All documents to be recorded in the land...
Section 6c - Residence and Address of Mortgagee or Assignee - Section 6C. Every mortgage and assignment of a mortgage presented...
Section 6d - Endorsement on Mortgages and Assignments of Mortgages Secured by Residential Property; Contents; Failure to Comply - Section 6D. Every mortgage and assignment of mortgage secured by...
Section 7 - Conveyance by Grantor Notwithstanding Disseisin or Adverse Possession; Title; Grantee's Rights - Section 7. A conveyance of land, if otherwise valid, shall,...
Section 8 - Statutory Forms; Alteration or Substitution; ''incorporation by Reference'' Defined - Section 8. The forms set forth in the appendix to...
Section 9 - Rules and Definitions Relating to Deeds or Other Instruments - Section 9. For the purpose of avoiding the unnecessary use...
Section 10 - Warranty Deed - Section 10. A deed in substance following the form entitled...
Section 11 - Quitclaim Deed - Section 11. A deed in substance following the form entitled...
Section 12 - ''grant'' as Word of Conveyance - Section 12. In a conveyance of real estate the word...
Section 13 - Words of Inheritance - Section 13. In a conveyance or reservation of real estate...
Section 14 - Uses and Trusts - Section 14. When a conveyance or devise of real estate...
Section 15 - Easements, Privileges and Appurtenances Belonging to Granted Estate - Section 15. In a conveyance of real estate all rights,...
Section 16 - ''warranty Covenants'' - Section 16. In a conveyance of real estate the words...
Section 17 - ''quitclaim Covenants'' or ''limited Covenants'' - Section 17. In a conveyance of real estate the words...
Section 18 - Mortgage Deeds - Section 18. A deed in substance following the form entitled...
Section 19 - ''mortgage Covenants'' - Section 19. In a conveyance of real estate the words...
Section 20 - ''statutory Condition'' in Mortgages - Section 20. The following ''condition'' shall be known as the...
Section 21 - ''statutory Power of Sale'' in Mortgage - Section 21. The following ''power'' shall be known as the...
Section 22 - Co-Operative Bank Mortgage - Section 22. A co-operative bank mortgage following in substance the...
Section 23 - ''statutory Co-Operative Bank Mortgage Condition'' - Section 23. The following ''co-operative bank mortgage condition'' shall be...
Section 24 - ''statutory Co-Operative Bank Power of Sale'' - Section 24. The following ''co-operative bank power'' shall be known...
Section 25 - Purchase by Holder of Mortgage at Foreclosure Sale - Section 25. The holder of a mortgage of real estate,...
Section 26 - Possessory Interest of Mortgagor - Section 26. Until default in the performance or observance of...
Section 27 - Disposition of Proceeds of Foreclosure Sale; Itemized Accounting Provided to Mortgagor - Section 27. The holder of a mortgage of real estate,...
Section 28 - Assignment of Mortgage; Words of Transfer - Section 28. In an assignment of a mortgage of real...
Section 28a - Subsequent Loans From Mortgagee; Priority - Section 28A. Any sum or sums which shall be loaned...
Section 28b - Open-End Mortgage; Subsequent Loans From Mortgagee - Section 28B. Any sum which shall be lent by the...
Section 28c - Refinancing in the Borrower's Interest - Section 28C. (a) A lender shall not knowingly make a...
Section 29 - Necessity of Acknowledgment of Deed; Recordation - Section 29. No deed shall be recorded unless a certificate...
Section 30 - Method of Making Acknowledgment - Section 30. The acknowledgment of the execution of a deed...
Section 31 - Acknowledgment of Married Woman - Section 31. The acknowledgment by a married woman may be...
Section 32 - Letters of Attorney; Applicability of Law - Section 32. The law relative to the acknowledgment and recording...
Section 33 - Certificates of Authority - Section 33. Whenever, under clause (b) of section thirty or...
Section 34 - Proof of Execution of Deed by Testimony of Subscribing Witness - Section 34. If the grantor dies or removes from the...
Section 35 - Proof of Execution by Proving Handwriting - Section 35. If all the subscribing witnesses to the deed...
Section 36 - Refusal of Grantor to Acknowledge; Proof of Execution by Testimony of Subscribing Witness - Section 36. If a grantor refuses to acknowledge his deed,...
Section 37 - Refusal of Grantor to Acknowledge; Proof of Execution by Proving Handwriting - Section 37. If a grantor refuses to acknowledge his deed...
Section 38 - Recording of Unacknowledged Deed; Effect - Section 38. A person interested in a deed which has...
Section 39 - Proof of Execution of Deed; Necessity of Subscribing Witness - Section 39. The execution of a deed shall not be...
Section 40 - Certificate of Proof of Execution - Section 40. A certificate of proof of the execution of...
Section 41 - Proof of Deed Made Outside Commonwealth - Section 41. The proof of a deed or other instrument,...
Section 42 - Forms for Acknowledgments and Certificates of Authority - Section 42. The forms set forth in the appendix to...
Section 43 - Vesting of Title or Interest by Operation of Decree in Equity - Section 43. Whenever a final decree in equity shall be...
Section 44 - Effect of Recording or Registration of Copy of Decree - Section 44. The recording or registration of a duly certified...
Section 45 - Conveyance in Fee by Person Seized as Tenant in Tail - Section 45. A person seized of land as tenant in...
Section 46 - Conveyance in Fee by Life Tenant and Vested Remainderman in Tail - Section 46. If land is held by one person for...
Section 47 - Barring of Equitable Estates Tail - Section 47. Equitable estates tail, in possession or remainder, and...
Section 48 - Conveyance of Equitable Fee; Entitlement to Conveyance of Outstanding Legal Estate - Section 48. The person to whom an equitable fee simple...
Section 49 - Sale and Conveyance or Mortgage by Trustee Appointed by Probate Court - Section 49. If land is subject to a vested or...
Section 50 - Notice of Petition to Appoint Trustee; Appointment of Next Friend - Section 50. Notice of a petition under the preceding section...
Section 51 - Bond of Trustee; Proceeds of Sale or Mortgage - Section 51. A trustee appointed under section forty-nine shall give...
Section 52 - Sale of Land Charged With Payment of Money; Petition; Decree; Bond of Trustee - Section 52. If land is charged with the payment of...
Section 53 - Effect of Deed, Bond or Other Instrument Made in Defeasance - Section 53. If a deed purports to contain an absolute...
Section 54 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 54 to 55; Method of Discharge of Mortgage - Section 54. (a) For the purposes of sections 54 to...
Section 54a - Defective Discharges of Mortgages Held by Entirety; Effect - Section 54A. After the expiration of a period of ten...
Section 54b - Mortgage Discharge, Release, Assignment, Foreclosure, etc.; Execution Before Officer Entitled to Acknowledge Instruments; Effect - Section 54B. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, (1) a...
Section 54c - Recordation of Discharge; Effect; Discharge by Mortgage Servicer or Note Holder Who Is Not Holder of Record - Section 54C. (a) The recordation of a duly executed and...
Section 54d - Request for Written Payoff Statement; Time for Transmittal; Contents; Corrected Statement; Penalties; Fees - Section 54D. (a) Upon request of 1 or more obligors...
Section 55 - Discharge of Mortgage; Contents and Recording; Liability for Failure to Discharge or Negligent Discharge; Affidavits - Section 55. (a)(1) A mortgagee, mortgage servicer or note holder...
Section 56 - Mortgage Notes; Provisions for Prepayment - Section 56. Any mortgage note secured by a first lien...
Section 57 - Home Mortgage Notes; Prepayment Penalty; Effect of Taking by Eminent Domain - Section 57. It shall be unlawful for a mortgagee to...
Section 58 - Real Estate Abutting a Way, Watercourse, Wall, Fence, or Other Monument - Section 58. Every instrument passing title to real estate abutting...
Section 59 - Late Charges or Penalties - Section 59. A mortgagee, assignee or holder of a mortgage...
Section 60 - Notes Secured by Liens, Amortization of Principal by Maturity; Conditions; Variable Rate of Amortization; Exemptions - Section 60. Whenever any note made to finance or refinance...
Section 61 - Payment of Interest by Mortgagee; Request for Exemption - Section 61. A mortgagee holding a first mortgage or lien...
Section 62 - Payment of Taxes to City or Town by Mortgagee; Due Date - Section 62. Any mortgagee who requires the prepayment of taxes...
Section 63 - Loan Fees; Residential Property Mortgages; Disclosure - Section 63. A mortgagee, or a mortgage lender or mortgage...
Section 63a - Revisions in Mortgage Terms; Restrictions; Fees - Section 63A. A mortgagee may, at the request of the...
Section 63b - Recordation of Real Estate Mortgage Prohibited Until Proceeds of Loan Paid to Mortgagor - Section 63B. No mortgagee who makes a loan to be...
Section 64 - Discrimination in Residential Mortgage Loans on Basis of Location of Property - Section 64. No mortgagee shall discriminate, on a basis that...
Section 65 - Acceptance of Written Memorandum as Evidence of Insurance - Section 65. Any mortgagee doing business in the commonwealth who...
Section 66 - Required Insurance; Limitation - Section 66. A bank, lending institution, mortgage company or any...
Section 67 - Reverse Mortgage Loans on Residential Property; Requirements - Section 67. No mortgagee shall make a reverse mortgage loan...
Section 68 - Mortgagees Licensed as Insurance Producers; Mortgage Loans Secured by Residential Real Estate; Conditions and Limitations - Section 68. Any mortgagee doing business in the commonwealth and...
Section 69 - Flood Insurance; Limits on Amount of Coverage Required to Be Purchased - Section 69. No creditor or creditor's representative, as defined in...