Massachusetts General Laws|Chapter 183 - ALIENATION OF LAND

Section 1 - Acts or ceremonies necessary for conveyance by deed

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 of deed; 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 applicable to Secs. 54 to 55; method of discharge of mortgage

Section 54A - Defective discharges of mortgages held by entirety; effect

Section 54B - Mortgage discharge, release, assignment, foreclosure, 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 loans on residential property; requirements

Section 68 - Mortgagees licensed as insurance producers; mortgage loans secured by residential real estate; conditions and limitations

Section 69 - Flood insurance; limits on amount of coverage required to be purchased