Chapter 185: THE LAND COURT AND REGISTRATION OF TITLE TO LAND
- Section 1 Jurisdiction; place of sittings; rules and forms of procedure
- Section 2 Justices and chief justice
- Section 2A Repealed, 1937, 409, Sec. 4
- Section 3 Scheduling of sessions
- Section 3A Permit session of the land court department; jurisdiction; transfer of actions; assignment of cases; case management; mediation
- Section 4 Processes
- Section 5 Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 84
- Section 6 Recorder; appointment; powers and duties
- Section 7 Custody and control of papers and documents
- Section 8 Places recorder or deputy allowed to act
- Section 9 Facsimile or electronic rendering of signature of recorder
- Section 10 Registers of deeds acting as assistant recorders
- Section 10A Technical assistants; termination
- Section 11 Oath and bond of recorder and assistant recorders; additional duties
- Section 12 Examiners of title; appointment; acting for recorder
- Section 13 Court officers
- Section 13A Stenographers
- Section 14 Salaries and expenses; practice of law; fees
- Section 15 Trial of causes and questions of fact; jury trials; transfer of actions to superior court
- Section 15A Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 26
- Section 16 Appeal from judgment for jury trial
- Section 17 Certification from clerk of superior court to land court; further proceedings before land court
- Section 18, 19 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 27
- Section 20 Repealed, 1931, 387, Sec. 2
- Section 21 Costs
- Section 21/2 Deputy court administrator
- Section 22 Filing of writs, complaints, bills and pleadings
- Section 23 Filing and indexing of final judgments and executions in county where land lies
- Section 24 Reference to examiner; examination and report
- Section 25 Powers of land court
- Section 25A Power of land court to enforce orders, sentences, judgments and decrees; contempts
- Section 26 Complaints for registration of title
- Section 26A Complaints for confirmation of title without registration
- Section 27 Filing of petition; memorandum relating to petition; duties of assistant recorder
- Section 28 Form and content of complaint
- Section 29 Land bounded on public or private way; content of complaint
- Section 30 Complaint or registration made subject to existing recorded mortgage or lease
- Section 31 Inclusion of two or more parcels; joinder
- Section 32 Amendments
- Section 33 Plan of land and muniments of title; filing; withdrawal; further survey
- Section 34 Additional facts in complaint; additional papers
- Section 35 Agent for non-resident plaintiff
- Section 36 Transactions dealing with land after filing of complaint; record of disposition of case
- Section 37 Reference to examiner to search records and investigate facts; report; notice of report to plaintiff
- Section 38 Publication of notice of filing of complaint
- Section 39 Return day of notice; mailing of copies; posting of copies
- Section 40 Appointment of guardian ad litem; compensation
- Section 41 Answer
- Section 42 General default; order; judgment confirming title
- Section 43 Hearing of contested cases; default of persons not appearing; reference to examiner; report; compensation of examiner
- Section 44 Dismissal; withdrawal
- Section 45 Judgment of confirmation and registration; opening of judgment; remedies of aggrieved persons
- Section 46 Encumbrances affecting certificates of title
- Section 47 Contents of judgment of registration
- Section 48 Transcription of judgment in district where land lies; owner's duplicate certificate; land lying in more than one district
- Section 49 Original and transfer certificates
- Section 50 Repealed, 1996, 481, Sec. 2
- Section 51 Subdivision; application for new certificates
- Section 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
- Section 53 Prescription, adverse possession or right of way by necessity
- Section 54 Evidentiary effect of original certificate or copies thereof
- Section 55 Contents of certificate of title
- Section 56 Recorder's duties relating to indexes and records
- Section 56A Complaints for confirmation of title; application of chapter
- Section 57 Dealings by owner; registration as act of conveyance
- Section 58 Notice of registering, filing or entering
- Section 59 Interests less than estate in fee simple; registration
- Section 60 Form of memorandum; presentation of doubtful questions to court
- Section 61 Information concerning grantee and others appearing on instrument; endorsement of changes
- Section 61A Address of property affected
- Section 62 Fraudulent registration
- Section 63 Assistant recorder's entry book; processing of instruments; public inspection of records; duplicates and copies
- Section 64 Procedure to convey fee
- Section 65 Procedure to convey part of land described on certificate
- Section 66 Statement of encumbrances or claims on new certificate
- Section 67 Authority to mortgage
- Section 68 Registration of mortgage
- Section 69 Discharge of mortgage
- Section 70 Foreclosure
- Section 71 Registration of leases or notices of leases
- Section 72 Trusts in registered land
- Section 73 Trusts with powers of sale, mortgage, etc.
- Section 74 Appointment of new trustee; proceedings
- Section 75 Implied or constructive trusts; filing of statement
- Section 76 Registration of land held in trust
- Section 77 Burdens and incidents attaching by law
- Section 78 Filing and registration of attachments or liens
- Section 79 Repealed, 1996, 481, Sec. 13
- Section 80 Filing of instruments evidencing continuation, reduction, discharge or dissolution
- Section 81 Applicability of laws relating to attachment on mesne process
- Section 82 Endorsement of plaintiff's attorney upon writ
- Section 83 Registration of order continuing, reducing or dissolving attachment on mesne process
- Section 84 Enforcement of liens
- Section 85 New certificate to person claiming under execution
- Section 86 Filing and registration of memorandum of proceedings affecting land; registration of judgment or decree
- Section 87 Certificate of manner of disposal
- Section 88 Registration of judgment
- Section 89 Filing and registration of execution or writ of seisin
- Section 90 Registration of certificates of judgment in writs of dower and waste
- Section 91 Registration of decrees
- Section 92 Filing and registration of judgment in partition proceedings or proceedings for assignment of spouse's statutory share
- Section 93 Registration of prior mortgage or lease with decree for partition
- Section 94 Registration of notices in insolvency and copies of decrees in bankruptcy
- Section 95 Registration of discharge
- Section 96 Entry of new certificate upon reverter
- Section 97 Entry of new certificate upon descent or devise; notice; hearing; memorandum of pendency of settlement of estate
- Section 98 Right of probate court to license sale or mortgage; new certificate or memorandum of registration
- Section 99 Assurance fund; payment; amount
- Section 100 Custody; investment; annual report
- Section 101 Grounds for recovery from assurance fund; exhausting other remedies; continuance of action to await result of tort action
- Section 102 Defendants in action to recover from fund
- Section 103 Recovery upon judgment
- Section 104 Deficiencies in assurance fund
- Section 105 Subrogation rights
- Section 106 Application and investment of income of assurance fund
- Section 107 Limitations upon liability and amount of compensation
- Section 108 Limitations upon commencement time of actions
- Section 109 Evidence of value of land, estate or interest
- Section 110 Powers of attorney; acknowledgment and filing of letters of attorney
- Section 111 Repealed, 1996, 481, Sec. 18
- Section 112 Statement alleging right or interest adverse to registered owner
- Section 113 Repealed, 1996, 481, Sec. 19
- Section 114 Changes upon registration book; grounds for motion to change
- Section 115 Filing and entitling of petitions and motions after registration
- Section 116 Mailing of notices after registration
- Section 117 Sectional plans; authority of court
- Section 118 Fraudulent conveyance; imprisonment term