Massachusetts Code — 183
Browse 85 sections in division 183 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Acts or ceremonies necessary for conveyance by deed
- § 1A. Instruments not under seal
- § 2. Estate conveyed by quitclaim deed
- § 3. Estate created without instrument in writing
- § 4. Effect of recordation or actual notice of deeds or leases, or of assignments of rents or profits
- § 5. Recording of instruments; evidence of delivery
- § 5A. Recording of statements relating to title; use as evidence
- § 5B. Affidavits relating to title; recording
- § 6. Name and address of grantee; recital of consideration; failure to comply
- § 6A. Instruments conveying unregistered land; sufficient description or identification; recording; failure to comply
- § 6B. Address of property affected
- § 6C. Residence and address of mortgagee or assignee
- § 6D. Endorsement on mortgages and assignments of mortgages secured by residential property; contents; failure to comply
- § 7. Conveyance by grantor notwithstanding disseisin or adverse possession; title; grantee's rights
- § 8. Statutory forms; alteration or substitution; ''incorporation by reference'' defined
- § 9. Rules and definitions relating to deeds or other instruments
- § 10. Warranty deed
- § 11. Quitclaim deed
- § 12. ''Grant'' as word of conveyance
- § 13. Words of inheritance
- § 14. Uses and trusts
- § 15. Easements, privileges and appurtenances belonging to granted estate
- § 16. ''Warranty covenants''
- § 17. ''Quitclaim covenants'' or ''limited covenants''
- § 18. Mortgage deeds
- § 19. ''Mortgage covenants''
- § 20. ''Statutory condition'' in mortgages
- § 21. ''Statutory power of sale'' in mortgage
- § 22. Co-operative bank mortgage
- § 23. ''Statutory co-operative bank mortgage condition''
- § 24. ''Statutory co-operative bank power of sale''
- § 25. Purchase by holder of mortgage at foreclosure sale
- § 26. Possessory interest of mortgagor
- § 27. Disposition of proceeds of foreclosure sale; itemized accounting provided to mortgagor
- § 28. Assignment of mortgage; words of transfer
- § 28A. Subsequent loans from mortgagee; priority
- § 28B. Open-end mortgage; subsequent loans from mortgagee
- § 28C. Refinancing in the borrower's interest
- § 29. Necessity of acknowledgment of deed; recordation
- § 30. Method of making acknowledgment
- § 31. Acknowledgment of married woman
- § 32. Letters of attorney; applicability of law
- § 33. Certificates of authority
- § 34. Proof of execution of deed by testimony of subscribing witness
- § 35. Proof of execution by proving handwriting
- § 36. Refusal of grantor to acknowledge; proof of execution by testimony of subscribing witness
- § 37. Refusal of grantor to acknowledge; proof of execution by proving handwriting
- § 38. Recording of unacknowledged deed; effect
- § 39. Proof of execution of deed; necessity of subscribing witness
- § 40. Certificate of proof of execution
- § 41. Proof of deed made outside commonwealth
- § 42. Forms for acknowledgments and certificates of authority
- § 43. Vesting of title or interest by operation of decree in equity
- § 44. Effect of recording or registration of copy of decree
- § 45. Conveyance in fee by person seized as tenant in tail
- § 46. Conveyance in fee by life tenant and vested remainderman in tail
- § 47. Barring of equitable estates tail
- § 48. Conveyance of equitable fee; entitlement to conveyance of outstanding legal estate
- § 49. Sale and conveyance or mortgage by trustee appointed by probate court
- § 50. Notice of petition to appoint trustee; appointment of next friend
- § 51. Bond of trustee; proceeds of sale or mortgage
- § 52. Sale of land charged with payment of money; petition; decree; bond of trustee
- § 53. Effect of deed, bond or other instrument made in defeasance
- § 54. Definitions applicable to Secs. 54 to 55; method of discharge of mortgage
- § 54A. Defective discharges of mortgages held by entirety; effect
- § 54B. Mortgage discharge, release, assignment, foreclosure, etc.; execution before officer entitled to acknowledge instruments; effect
- § 54C. Recordation of discharge; effect; discharge by mortgage servicer or note holder who is not holder of record
- § 54D. Request for written payoff statement; time for transmittal; contents; corrected statement; penalties; fees
- § 55. Discharge of mortgage; contents and recording; liability for failure to discharge or negligent discharge; affidavits
- § 56. Mortgage notes; provisions for prepayment
- § 57. Home mortgage notes; prepayment penalty; effect of taking by eminent domain
- § 58. Real estate abutting a way, watercourse, wall, fence, or other monument
- § 59. Late charges or penalties
- § 60. Notes secured by liens, amortization of principal by maturity; conditions; variable rate of amortization; exemptions
- § 61. Payment of interest by mortgagee; request for exemption
- § 62. Payment of taxes to city or town by mortgagee; due date
- § 63. Loan fees; residential property mortgages; disclosure
- § 63A. Revisions in mortgage terms; restrictions; fees
- § 63B. Recordation of real estate mortgage prohibited until proceeds of loan paid to mortgagor
- § 64. Discrimination in residential mortgage loans on basis of location of property
- § 65. Acceptance of written memorandum as evidence of insurance
- § 66. Required insurance; limitation
- § 67. Reverse mortgage loans on residential property; requirements
- § 68. Mortgagees licensed as insurance producers; mortgage loans secured by residential real estate; conditions and limitations
- § 69. Flood insurance; limits on amount of coverage required to be purchased