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