General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 184 General Provisions Relative to Real Property
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of aliens - Chapter 184, Section 1
Aliens may take, hold, transmit and convey real property, and no title to real property shall be invalid on account of the alienage of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance of land subject to contingent remainder, executory devise or other estate in expectancy - Chapter 184, Section 2
If a contingent remainder, executory devise or other estate in expectancy is so granted or limited to a person that in case of his death...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contingent remainders; taking effect; limitations - Chapter 184, Section 3
A contingent remainder shall take effect, notwithstanding any determination of the particular estate, in the same manner in which it would have taken effect if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land held in fee tail; liability for debts of tenant in tail - Chapter 184, Section 4
Land held in fee tail, except an estate tail in remainder, shall be liable for the debts of the tenant in tail, both in his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance vesting life estate and remainder to heirs - Chapter 184, Section 5
If land is granted or devised to a person and after his death to his heirs in fee, however the grant or devise is expressed,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interpretation of words importing want or failure of issue - Chapter 184, Section 6
In a limitation of real or personal property by deed, will or other instrument in writing, executed after April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - “Heirs” and “next of kin” construed - Chapter 184, Section 6A
In a limitation of real or personal property to a class described as the “heirs” or “next of kin” of a person, or described by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creation of estate in common, joint tenancy or tenancy by the entirety - Chapter 184, Section 7
A conveyance or devise of land to two or more persons or to husband and wife, except a mortgage or a devise or conveyance in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance to grantor and another - Chapter 184, Section 8
Real estate, including any interest therein, may be transferred by a person to himself jointly with another person in the same manner in which it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Name and address of owner; request for information; records; penalty - Chapter 184, Section 8A
In any city or town which accepts this section, the assessors shall, if they have reason to believe that the name and address of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance by tenant for life or years of greater estate - Chapter 184, Section 9
A conveyance by a tenant for life or years which purports to grant a greater estate than he possesses or can lawfully convey shall not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acts of owner of precedent estate upon expectant estate; effect - Chapter 184, Section 10
No expectant estate shall be defeated or barred by an alienation or other act of the owner of the precedent estate, nor by the destruction...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Barring of estates tail - Chapter 184, Section 11
The two preceding sections shall not prevent the barring of estates tail in the manner provided in chapter one hundred and eighty-three, nor an expectant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fixtures annexed by life tenant; determination; removal - Chapter 184, Section 12
Fixtures annexed to the freehold by a life tenant or by his assigns may be removed during the continuance of the life estate or within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 184, Section 13
Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of timber standing on land used by other than owner of fee - Chapter 184, Section 14
If the supreme judicial court or the probate court for the county where the land lies finds that wood or timber, standing on land the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings affecting title to real property; recording and registration of memoranda of lis pendens; persons affected - Chapter 184, Section 15
(a) A wit of entry or other proceeding that affects the title to real property or the use and occupation thereof or the buildings thereon,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of judgment, decree or final disposition; recording - Chapter 184, Section 16
At any time after final judgment or a decree in favor of the defendant, or after the discontinuance, dismissal or other final disposition, by consent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgments or decrees; effect of recording - Chapter 184, Section 17
A judgment or decree, at law or in equity, rendered after June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, affecting the title to real property, shall not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement for purchase and sale of real estate; acknowledgment; recordation - Chapter 184, Section 17A
No agreement for the purchase and sale of real estate or any extension thereof shall be received for record in any registry of deeds unless...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgage loan application; real estate consisting of a certain dwelling house; required statements and information - Chapter 184, Section 17B
Every application for a mortgage loan on 1-to-4-family residential property and occupied or to be occupied in whole or in part by the obligor on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Variable or adjustable rate subprime loans for first-time home loan borrowers; written affirmation and counseling certificate required; approved counseling programs; violations; regulations - Chapter 184, Section 17B1/2
No mortgagee who makes a loan to a first-time home loan borrower, to be secured by a mortgage on owner-occupied, 1 to 4 family residential...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2006, 63, Sec. 4B - Chapter 184, Section 17C 17D
Repealed, 2006, 63, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry into land; legal proceedings required to recover possession of land or tenements; jurisdiction - Chapter 184, Section 18
No person shall make an entry into land or tenements except in cases where his entry is allowed by law, and in such cases he...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry for breach of condition; certificate; recordation - Chapter 184, Section 19
If real property has been conveyed by deed on a condition therein expressed, which is not a mortgage and if proceedings based upon right of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right of entry or action for recovery of real property; descent or discontinuance - Chapter 184, Section 20
No descent or discontinuance shall take away or defeat any right of entry or of action for the recovery of real property.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbrances upon real property; duty of grantor to inform grantee - Chapter 184, Section 21
If real property upon which any encumbrance exists is conveyed by deed or mortgage, the grantor, in whatever capacity he may act, shall before the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbrance of record; liability for removal - Chapter 184, Section 22
Whoever conveys real property by a deed or mortgage which contains a covenant that it is free from all encumbrances shall, if it appears by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions or restrictions; term of years; applicability - Chapter 184, Section 23
Conditions or restrictions, unlimited as to time, by which the title or use of real property is affected, shall be limited to the term of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings relating to building restrictions; limitation of actions - Chapter 184, Section 23A
No action, suit, or proceeding shall be maintained either at law or in equity in any court to recover damages or to compel the removal,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictive covenants based on race, religion, national origin or sex; validity; exception - Chapter 184, Section 23B
A provision in an instrument relating to real property which purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, occupancy, or lease thereof to individuals of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Solar energy systems; installation or use; restrictive provisions - Chapter 184, Section 23C
Any provision in an instrument relative to the ownership or use of real property which purports to forbid or unreasonably restrict the installation or use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community residences for disabled persons; restrictive provisions - Chapter 184, Section 23D
Any restriction, reservation, condition, exception, or covenant in any subdivision plan, deed or other instrument of or pertaining to the transfer, sale, lease or use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Defects, irregularities or omissions in deeds; curative period - Chapter 184, Section 24
When any owner of land the title to which is not registered, or of any interest in such land, signs an instrument in writing conveying...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indefinite references; effect; application - Chapter 184, Section 25
No indefinite reference in a recorded instrument shall subject any person not an immediate party thereto to any interest in real estate, legal or equitable,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land use or construction restrictions subject to this section and Secs. 27 to 30; definitions; sufficiency of description; presumptions - Chapter 184, Section 26
All restrictions on the use of land or construction thereon which run with the land subject thereto and are imposed by covenant, agreement, or otherwise,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions imposed after December 31, 1961; limitations on enforceability; extension of period - Chapter 184, Section 27
No restriction imposed after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixty-one shall be enforceable:— (a) unless the person seeking enforcement (1) is a party to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions imposed before January 1, 1962; limitations on enforceability; extension of period - Chapter 184, Section 28
No restriction imposed before January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two shall be enforceable after the expiration of fifty years from its imposition unless a notice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice or extension of restriction; prerequisites - Chapter 184, Section 29
No notice or extension of restriction under sections twenty-seven or twenty-eight shall be effective against a subject parcel (a) if its title is registered, unless...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforceability of restrictions; presumptions and prerequisites; temporary injunction - Chapter 184, Section 30
No restriction shall in any proceeding be enforced or declared to be enforceable, whether or not the time for recording a notice or extension under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions, defined - Chapter 184, Section 31
A conservation restriction means a right, either in perpetuity or for a specified number of years, whether or not stated in the form of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect, enforcement, acquisition, and release of restrictions - Chapter 184, Section 32
No conservation restriction, agricultural preservation or watershed preservation restriction as defined in section thirty-one, held by any governmental body or by a charitable corporation or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public restriction tract index - Chapter 184, Section 33
Any city or town may file with the register of deeds for the county or district in which it is situated a map or set...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec. 3 - Chapter 184, Section 33A 33B
Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Good faith purchasers of interests in real estate from trustees; binding effect on trust; recording conditions - Chapter 184, Section 34
Any recordable instrument purporting to affect an interest in real estate executed by any person or persons who, in the records of the registry of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trustee’s certificate; requirements; effect - Chapter 184, Section 35
Notwithstanding section 25 to the contrary, a certificate sworn to or stated to be executed under the penalties of perjury, and in either case signed...
Last modified: September 11, 2015