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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 254 Liens on Buildings and Land.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Liens; labor performed - Chapter 254, Section 1
A person to whom a debt is due for personal labor performed in the erection, alteration, repair or removal of a building or structure upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written contract; notice - Chapter 254, Section 2
A person entering into a written contract with the owner of any interest in real property, or with any person acting for, on behalf of,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of substantial completion; recording - Chapter 254, Section 2A
As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning:— “Substantial completion”, that work under the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of termination; recording - Chapter 254, Section 2B
If, prior to the filing or recording in the registry of deeds and delivery of the copies of the notice of substantial completion described in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 364, Sec. 4 - Chapter 254, Section 3
Chapter 254: Section 3. Repealed, 1996, 364, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written contract; subcontractors; notice; completion date - Chapter 254, Section 4
Whoever furnishes labor, including subcontractor construction management services, or who furnishes material, or both labor and material, or furnishes rental equipment, appliances or tools, under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of lien; procedure - Chapter 254, Section 5
A lien upon land for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of a building or other structure or other improvement of real property or a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court order authorizing sale of real estate; procedure - Chapter 254, Section 5A
When the amount of a lien under section six of chapter 183A or under section 29 of chapter 183B has been established by a court,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public property; exemption - Chapter 254, Section 6
No lien shall attach to any land, building or structure thereon owned by the commonwealth, or by a county, city, town, water or fire district.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgages; invalidity of subsequent liens - Chapter 254, Section 7
(a) No lien under section one shall avail against a mortgage duly registered or recorded unless the work or labor performed is in the erection,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statements; dissolution of lien upon failure to file - Chapter 254, Section 8
Liens under sections two and four shall be dissolved unless the contractor, subcontractor, or some person claiming by, through or under them, shall, not later...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement; recording; inspection - Chapter 254, Section 9
Any notice or any statement provided for in this chapter shall remain in the custody of the register and be open to public inspection. He...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by notice - Chapter 254, Section 10
The lien of any person may, so far as his interest is concerned, be dissolved by a notice signed by him, stating that his lien...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action to enforce lien; time to commence; validity of lien - Chapter 254, Section 11
The lien shall be dissolved unless a civil action to enforce it is commenced within ninety days after the filing of the statement required by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by bond; form of bond; recording - Chapter 254, Section 12
Any person, including the owner, in interest in connection with a written contract covered by section two or section four may cause to be recorded...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachments - Chapter 254, Section 13
The rights of an attaching creditor shall not prevail as against a lien under section one, nor against the claim of a lienor where notice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by bond of creditor - Chapter 254, Section 14
Any person in interest may dissolve a lien under this chapter by recording or causing to be recorded in the registry of deeds in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by judgment - Chapter 254, Section 15
If it appears to the court that no person is entitled to a lien, or that every lien has been discharged by payment thereof, judgment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application to court for order ruling on or discharging lien - Chapter 254, Section 15A
If any person in interest, including but not limited to an owner, contractor, or mortgage holder, claims (a) that any person who has provided labor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 322 - Chapter 254, Section 16
Chapter 254: Section 16. Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 322
- Massachusetts General Laws - Claims; allowance - Chapter 254, Section 17
A claim due absolutely and without condition, although not payable at the time of determination, shall be allowed with a rebate of interest to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of property - Chapter 254, Section 18
If a lien is established the court shall order a sale of the property to be made by an officer qualified to serve civil process....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of sale - Chapter 254, Section 19
The officer shall give notice of the time and place of sale as provided for sales of land on execution or as ordered by the
- Massachusetts General Laws - Redemption; limitation - Chapter 254, Section 20
An interest in land sold under this chapter may be redeemed within ninety days after such sale in the manner provided for sales of land...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution of assets - Chapter 254, Section 21
If all the claims against the property covered by the lien were ascertained at the time of ordering the sale and if the proceeds of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs - Chapter 254, Section 22
Costs shall be in the discretion of the court and shall be paid from the proceeds of the sale or by any of the parties,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Original owner; death or conveyance of interest; action to enforce lien - Chapter 254, Section 23
If the person for whom the labor has been performed or furnished or the material has been furnished dies or conveys away his estate or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of creditor; effect - Chapter 254, Section 24
If the creditor dies without having commenced such action, it may be commenced and prosecuted by his executor or administrator, or if he dies after...
General Provisions.
Liens on Land Raised or Reclaimed by Dredging.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liens on dredged lands; written contract; form of notice - Chapter 254, Section 27
A person entering into a written contract with the owner of land or flats for reclaiming or raising the level thereof by suction, hydraulic or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subcontractor; written contract; notice; filing; form - Chapter 254, Section 28
Whoever, subsequent to the date of the original contract, furnishes labor or material, or both labor and material, under a written contract with a contractor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laws applicable to secs. 27 and 28 - Chapter 254, Section 29
All the provisions of this chapter relative to liens for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of a building or structure or for furnishing material...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recording; duty of register of deeds - Chapter 254, Section 30
All liens for labor and notices of contract, and instruments pertaining thereto, filed as provided for in this chapter, shall be recorded by the register...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Apportionment; priority; proceedings; public contracts - Chapter 254, Section 31
In the event that a general contractor or a subcontractor on any construction work is adjudged a bankrupt, or makes a general assignment for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Void and unenforceable covenants, promises, etc.; exceptions - Chapter 254, Section 32
A covenant, promise, agreement of understanding in, or in connection with or collateral to, a contract or agreement relative to the construction, alteration, repair or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgagee's right to withhold funding, financing or payment for labor and materials - Chapter 254, Section 33
Except with respect to any construction project containing or designed to contain at least one but not more than four dwelling units, the filing or...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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