| Organization: | Land Court Massachusetts Court System |
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| Date published: | February 27, 2009 |
About
The Land Court’s Guidelines on Registered Land provide consistent and reliable filing requirements for documents presented for registration at the Registry Districts. Last amended in 2009, the Registered Land Guidelines are periodically supplemented by memoranda issued by the Chief Title Examiner. The Land Court, through its Guidelines Committee, is now in the process of revising and updating the Guidelines on Registered Land. In the interim, please refer to the Land Court’s website for updated forms and all the Chief Title Examiner memos to ensure you are referencing the latest guidance.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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- 1. Acknowledgments: Requirements
- 2. Acknowledgments outside the United States
- 3. Administrative agent for multiple lenders
- 4. Alteration of documents
- 5. Approval by the Engineering Department
- 6. Attachments
- 7. Attorney’s proposed form of new certificate
- 8. Condominiums: Acts by the organization of unit owners
- 9. Condominiums: First unit deeds
- 10. Condominiums: Foreclosure of lien for common expenses
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- 11. Condominiums: Prior undischarged mortgages
- 12. Condominiums: Plans and amendments
- 13. Conservation commission or DEP plans
- 14. Death: The effect of death upon registered land titles
- 15. Deeds: Execution and acknowledgment of deed under power of attorney
- 16. Deeds: Nominal consideration
- 17. Delayed filing for registration
- 18. Descriptions in deeds and certificates of title; exception deeds; conveyances of portions of land
- 19. Easements, restrictions, covenants and other rights granted or reserved in a deed
- 20. Executions
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- 21. Expired and obsolete encumbrances
- 22. Faxed instruments
- 23. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- 24. Fees in streets
- 25. Homestead
- 26. Land Court examiner qualifications
- 27. Leases and notices of lease
- 28. Life estate deeds
- 29. Limited liability companies and partnerships: formation, consolidation, and merger
- 30. Limited liability company documents
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- 31. Limited liability partnership documents
- 32. Limited partnership: consolidation or merger
- 33. Limited partnership: filing requirements
- 34. Lis pendens
- 35. Massachusetts estate, inheritance, and corporate excise taxes
- 36. Mechanics liens
- 37. Mortgages: amendments
- 38. Mortgages: discharges, partial releases and assignments; persons signing
- 39. Mortgages: discharges and assignments; collateral security documents
- 40. Mortgages and assignments: addresses
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- 41. Mortgages: foreclosures
- 42. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS)
- 43. Orders of conditions
- 44. Purchase and sale agreements
- 45. Registered and recorded instruments
- 46. Sheriff’s Deeds
- 47. Street address
- 48. Tax takings
- 49. Tax titles: foreclosure of tax titles
- 50. Tenancies by the entirety
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- 51. Trusts: conveyances to trustees
- 52. Trusts: conveyances by trustees
- 53. Trusts: trustee’s deed for nominal consideration
- 54. Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) financing statements
- 55. Approval by the Chief Title Examiner
- 56. Bank mergers
- 57. Condominiums: approval of condominium documents
- 58. Conveyances by cities and towns
- 59. Indefinite references
- 60. Mortgages affecting appurtenant easements
Contact
Address
3 Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108