STATE STATUTES & CODES

MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES

CHAPTER 183 ALIENATION OF LAND

• Section 1 Acts or ceremonies necessary for conveyance
• Section 1A Instruments not under seal
• Section 2 Estate conveyed by quitclaim deed
• Section 3 Estate created without instrument in writing
• Section 4 Effect of recordation or actual notice of deeds or leases, or of assignments of rents or profits
• Section 5 Recording of instruments; evidence of delivery
• Section 5A Recording of statements relating to title; use as evidence
• Section 5B Affidavits relating to title; recording
• Section 6 Name and address of grantee; recital of consideration; failure to comply
• Section 6A Instruments conveying unregistered land; sufficient description or identification; recording; failure to comply
• Section 6B Address of property affected
• Section 6C Residence and address of mortgagee or assignee
• Section 6D Endorsement on mortgages and assignments of mortgages secured by residential property; contents; failure to comply
• Section 7 Conveyance by grantor notwithstanding disseisin or adverse possession; title; grantee’s rights
• Section 8 Statutory forms; alteration or substitution; “incorporation by reference” defined
• Section 9 Rules and definitions relating to deeds or other instruments
• Section 10 Warranty deed
• Section 11 Quitclaim deed
• Section 12 “Grant” as word of conveyance
• Section 13 Words of inheritance
• Section 14 Uses and trusts
• Section 15 Easements, privileges and appurtenances belonging to granted estate
• Section 16 “Warranty covenants”
• Section 17 “Quitclaim covenants” or “limited covenants”
• Section 18 Mortgage deeds
• Section 19 “Mortgage covenants”
• Section 20 “Statutory condition” in mortgages
• Section 21 “Statutory power of sale” in mortgage
• Section 22 Co-operative bank mortgage
• Section 23 “Statutory co-operative bank mortgage condition”
• Section 24 “Statutory co-operative bank power of sale”
• Section 25 Purchase by holder of mortgage at foreclosure sale
• Section 26 Possessory interest of mortgagor
• Section 27 Disposition of proceeds of foreclosure sale; itemized accounting provided to mortgagor
• Section 28 Assignment of mortgage; words of transfer
• Section 28A Subsequent loans from mortgagee; priority
• Section 28B Open-end mortgage; subsequent loans from mortgagee
• Section 28C Refinancing in the borrower’s interest
• Section 29 Necessity of acknowledgment; recordation
• Section 30 Method of making acknowledgment
• Section 31 Acknowledgment of married woman
• Section 32 Letters of attorney; applicability of law
• Section 33 Certificates of authority
• Section 34 Proof of execution of deed by testimony of subscribing witness
• Section 35 Proof of execution by proving handwriting
• Section 36 Refusal of grantor to acknowledge; proof of execution by testimony of subscribing witness
• Section 37 Refusal of grantor to acknowledge; proof of execution by proving handwriting
• Section 38 Recording of unacknowledged deed; effect
• Section 39 Proof of execution of deed; necessity of subscribing witness
• Section 40 Certificate of proof of execution
• Section 41 Proof of deed made outside commonwealth
• Section 42 Forms for acknowledgments and certificates of authority
• Section 43 Vesting of title or interest by operation of decree in equity
• Section 44 Effect of recording or registration of copy of decree
• Section 45 Conveyance in fee by person seized as tenant in tail
• Section 46 Conveyance in fee by life tenant and vested remainderman in tail
• Section 47 Barring of equitable estates tail
• Section 48 Conveyance of equitable fee; entitlement to conveyance of outstanding legal estate
• Section 49 Sale and conveyance or mortgage by trustee appointed by probate court
• Section 50 Notice of petition to appoint trustee; appointment of next friend
• Section 51 Bond of trustee; proceeds of sale or mortgage
• Section 52 Sale of land charged with payment of money; petition; decree; bond of trustee
• Section 53 Effect of deed, bond or other instrument made in defeasance
• Section 54 Definitions; method of discharge
• Section 54A Defective discharges of mortgages held by entirety; effect
• Section 54B Mortgage release, assignment, etc.; execution before officer entitled to acknowledge instruments; effect
• Section 54C Recordation of discharge; effect; discharge by mortgage servicer or note holder who is not holder of record
• Section 54D Request for written payoff statement; time for transmittal; contents; corrected statement; penalties; fees
• Section 55 Discharge of mortgage; contents and recording; liability for failure to discharge or negligent discharge; affidavits
• Section 56 Mortgage notes; provisions for prepayment
• Section 57 Home mortgage notes; prepayment penalty; effect of taking by eminent domain
• Section 58 Real estate abutting a way, watercourse, wall, fence, or other monument
• Section 59 Late charges or penalties
• Section 60 Notes secured by liens, amortization of principal by maturity; conditions; variable rate of amortization; exemptions
• Section 61 Payment of interest by mortgagee; request for exemption
• Section 62 Payment of taxes to city or town by mortgagee; due date
• Section 63 Loan fees; residential property mortgages; disclosure
• Section 63A Revisions in mortgage terms; restrictions; fees
• Section 63B Recordation of real estate mortgage prohibited until proceeds of loan paid to mortgagor
• Section 64 Discrimination in residential mortgage loans on basis of location of property
• Section 65 Acceptance of written memorandum as evidence of insurance
• Section 66 Required insurance; limitation
• Section 67 Reverse mortgage loan prohibition
• Section 68 Mortgagees licensed as insurance producers; mortgage loans secured by residential real estate; conditions and limitations

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