General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 254 Liens on Buildings and Land
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labor performed; limitation on lien; filing - 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; time for filing; form - 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 - Written contract; substantial completion; definitions; notice; filing; form; certified mail - Chapter 254, Section 2A
As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning:— [Definitions of “Design professional” and “Professional...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Termination of written contract; notice; filing; form; certified mail - 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 - Design professional’s lien upon real property; form and filing of notice - Chapter 254, Section 2C
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] A design professional entering into a written contract with the owner of any interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subcontractor of design professional; lien; form and filing of notice - Chapter 254, Section 2D
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] Any person who furnishes professional services under a written subcontract with a design professional...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 364, Sec. 4 - Chapter 254, Section 3
Repealed, 1996, 364, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subcontractors; written contract; notice; filing; form; indirect contractual relationship; notice of identification - Chapter 254, Section 4
[First paragraph applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] Whoever furnishes labor, including subcontractor construction management services, or who furnishes material, or both labor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of lien; procedure - Chapter 254, Section 5
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] A lien upon land for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of a building...
- 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 - Statement of amount due; time for filing; dissolution of lien - Chapter 254, Section 8
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] Liens under sections two and four shall be dissolved unless the contractor, subcontractor, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice or statement; public inspection; recording - 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
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] The lien shall be dissolved unless a civil action to enforce it is commenced...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written contract; recording of bond; form; enforcement - 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
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] The rights of an attaching creditor shall not prevail as against a lien under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by bond recording; labor and materials; form of bond - 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
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] If any person in interest, including but not limited to an owner, contractor, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 322 - Chapter 254, Section 16
Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
- 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
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] If all the claims against the property covered by the lien were ascertained at...
- 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
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] If the person for whom the labor or material has been furnished or professional...
- 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estate less than fee simple; effect of sale - Chapter 254, Section 25
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] If the person for whom the labor has been performed or with whom the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remedies - Chapter 254, Section 26
This chapter shall not prevent a person entitled to a lien under it from maintaining a civil action as if he had no lien.
- Massachusetts General Laws - 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 Sec. 27 or 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
[Introductory paragraph of first paragraph applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] A covenant, promise, agreement of understanding in, or in connection with or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgagee’s right to withhold funding, financing or payment for labor and materials - Chapter 254, Section 33
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 424, Sec. 20.] Except with respect to any construction project containing or designed to contain at least...
Last modified: September 11, 2015