Section 13. If a deed or other writing affecting land has been recorded in a registry of deeds or registered in a registry district of the land court, a copy thereof, duly certified by a proper official, may be recorded or registered in any county or registry district wherein the original might properly have been recorded or registered, and when so recorded or registered shall have the same effect as a record or registration of the original instrument.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VI - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds
Section 1 - Registry Districts
Section 2 - Election; Qualification; Tenure
Section 3 - Oath of Office; Bond
Section 4 - Assistant Registers; Appointment
Section 5 - Assistant Registers in Suffolk County and Southern District of Middlesex
Section 5a - Second Assistant Register and Administrative Assistant for Norfolk County
Section 6 - Assistant Registers for Districts of Southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden County
Section 7 - Chief Clerk in Worcester District
Section 8 - Assistant and Temporary Registers and Clerks; Powers and Duties
Section 10 - Duties of New Register as to Unrecorded Instruments
Section 12a - Refusal to Accept Certain Instruments for Recording Authorized
Section 13 - Recording of Certified Copies of Instruments in More Than County or District
Section 13a - Plans, Rules for Filing in Registries
Section 13b - Plans; Filing in Registry of Deeds; Fees
Section 14 - Registry Book; Contents of Entries; Instrument Number; Changes and Corrections
Section 14a - Certification of Historic or Archeological Site; Recording of Notice
Section 15 - Method of Recording Documents; Microphotographs
Section 16 - Recordation; Receipts of Federal Succession Taxes
Section 17 - Duplicate Records; Attestation; Effect of Copies; Fees
Section 18 - Attestation of Records by Volume
Section 18a - Illegible Signatures
Section 19 - Facsimile Signatures
Section 20 - Instruments Affecting Mortgages Registered in Different Counties
Section 21 - Marginal References on Record of Instruments Affecting Certain Mortgages
Section 22 - Instruments Affecting Interests Created by Delinquent Taxes or Assessments; Recordation
Section 23 - Recordation; Certification of Book and Page Number on Instruments
Section 24 - Recordation; Federal Liens; Filing Fee
Section 24a - Recordation; Petitions, Decrees or Orders in Bankruptcy
Section 24b - Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information
Section 25 - Indexes; Number; Form
Section 26 - Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making
Section 27 - Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition
Section 28 - Classified Copies of Indexes
Section 29 - New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price
Section 30 - Estimates of Cost of Indexing
Section 31a - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording
Section 32 - Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare
Section 32a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications
Section 37 - Compensation for Title Work
Section 38 - Clerical Assistants; Compensation
Section 39 - Fees; Recordation; Disposition
Section 40 - Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers