Massachusetts Code — 185
Browse 117 sections in division 185 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Jurisdiction; place of sittings; rules and forms of procedure
- § 2. Justices and chief justice
- § 3. Scheduling of sessions
- § 3A. Permit session of the land court department; jurisdiction; transfer of actions; assignment of cases; case management; mediation
- § 4. Processes
- § 6. Recorder; appointment; powers and duties
- § 7. Custody and control of papers and documents
- § 8. Places recorder or deputy allowed to act
- § 9. Facsimile or electronic rendering of signature of recorder
- § 10. Registers of deeds acting as assistant recorders
- § 10A. Technical assistants; termination
- § 11. Oath and bond of recorder and assistant recorders; additional duties
- § 12. Examiners of title; appointment; acting for recorder
- § 13. Court officers
- § 13A. Stenographers
- § 14. Salaries and expenses; practice of law; fees
- § 15. Trial of causes and questions of fact; jury trials; transfer of actions to superior court
- § 16. Appeal from judgment for jury trial
- § 17. Certification from clerk of superior court to land court; further proceedings before land court
- § 21. Costs
- § 22. Filing of writs, complaints, bills and pleadings
- § 23. Filing and indexing of final judgments and executions in county where land lies
- § 24. Reference to examiner; examination and report
- § 25. Powers of land court
- § 25A. Power of land court to enforce orders, sentences, judgments and decrees; contempts
- § 26. Complaints for registration of title
- § 26A. Complaints for confirmation of title without registration
- § 27. Filing of petition; memorandum relating to petition; duties of assistant recorder
- § 28. Form and content of complaint
- § 29. Land bounded on public or private way; content of complaint
- § 30. Complaint or registration made subject to existing recorded mortgage or lease
- § 31. Inclusion of two or more parcels; joinder
- § 32. Amendments
- § 33. Plan of land and muniments of title; filing; withdrawal; further survey
- § 34. Additional facts in complaint; additional papers
- § 35. Agent for non-resident plaintiff
- § 36. Transactions dealing with land after filing of complaint; record of disposition of case
- § 37. Reference to examiner to search records and investigate facts; report; notice of report to plaintiff
- § 38. Publication of notice of filing of complaint
- § 39. Return day of notice; mailing of copies; posting of copies
- § 40. Appointment of guardian ad litem; compensation
- § 41. Answer
- § 42. General default; order; judgment confirming title
- § 43. Hearing of contested cases; default of persons not appearing; reference to examiner; report; compensation of examiner
- § 44. Dismissal; withdrawal
- § 45. Judgment of confirmation and registration; opening of judgment; remedies of aggrieved persons
- § 46. Encumbrances affecting certificates of title
- § 47. Contents of judgment of registration
- § 48. Transcription of judgment in district where land lies; owner's duplicate certificate; land lying in more than one district
- § 49. Original and transfer certificates
- § 51. Subdivision; application for new certificates
- § 52. Notice of voluntary withdrawal; judgment of registration and the entry of a certificate of title; acquisition of land; objections; role of chief justice of the land court
- § 53. Prescription, adverse possession or right of way by necessity
- § 54. Evidentiary effect of original certificate or copies thereof
- § 55. Contents of certificate of title
- § 56. Recorder's duties relating to indexes and records
- § 56A. Complaints for confirmation of title; application of chapter
- § 57. Dealings by owner; registration as act of conveyance
- § 58. Notice of registering, filing or entering
- § 59. Interests less than estate in fee simple; registration
- § 60. Form of memorandum; presentation of doubtful questions to court
- § 61. Information concerning grantee and others appearing on instrument; endorsement of changes
- § 61A. Address of property affected
- § 62. Fraudulent registration
- § 63. Assistant recorder's entry book; processing of instruments; public inspection of records; duplicates and copies
- § 64. Procedure to convey fee
- § 65. Procedure to convey part of land described on certificate
- § 66. Statement of encumbrances or claims on new certificate
- § 67. Authority to mortgage
- § 68. Registration of mortgage
- § 69. Discharge of mortgage
- § 70. Foreclosure
- § 71. Registration of leases or notices of leases
- § 72. Trusts in registered land
- § 73. Trusts with powers of sale, mortgage, etc.
- § 74. Appointment of new trustee; proceedings
- § 75. Implied or constructive trusts; filing of statement
- § 76. Registration of land held in trust
- § 77. Burdens and incidents attaching by law
- § 78. Filing and registration of attachments or liens
- § 80. Filing of instruments evidencing continuation, reduction, discharge or dissolution
- § 81. Applicability of laws relating to attachment on mesne process
- § 82. Endorsement of plaintiff's attorney upon writ
- § 83. Registration of order continuing, reducing or dissolving attachment on mesne process
- § 84. Enforcement of liens
- § 85. New certificate to person claiming under execution
- § 86. Filing and registration of memorandum of proceedings affecting land; registration of judgment or decree
- § 87. Certificate of manner of disposal
- § 88. Registration of judgment
- § 89. Filing and registration of execution or writ of seisin
- § 90. Registration of certificates of judgment in writs of dower and waste
- § 91. Registration of decrees
- § 92. Filing and registration of judgment in partition proceedings or proceedings for assignment of spouse's statutory share
- § 93. Registration of prior mortgage or lease with decree for partition
- § 94. Registration of notices in insolvency and copies of decrees in bankruptcy
- § 95. Registration of discharge
- § 96. Entry of new certificate upon reverter
- § 97. Entry of new certificate upon descent or devise; notice; hearing; memorandum of pendency of settlement of estate
- § 98. Right of probate court to license sale or mortgage; new certificate or memorandum of registration
- § 99. Assurance fund; payment; amount
- § 100. Custody; investment; annual report
- § 101. Grounds for recovery from assurance fund; exhausting other remedies; continuance of action to await result of tort action
- § 102. Defendants in action to recover from fund
- § 103. Recovery upon judgment
- § 104. Deficiencies in assurance fund
- § 105. Subrogation rights
- § 106. Application and investment of income of assurance fund
- § 107. Limitations upon liability and amount of compensation
- § 108. Limitations upon commencement time of actions
- § 109. Evidence of value of land, estate or interest
- § 110. Powers of attorney; acknowledgment and filing of letters of attorney
- § 112. Statement alleging right or interest adverse to registered owner
- § 114. Changes upon registration book; grounds for motion to change
- § 115. Filing and entitling of petitions and motions after registration
- § 116. Mailing of notices after registration
- § 117. Sectional plans; authority of court
- § 118. Fraudulent conveyance; imprisonment term