General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 36 Registers of Deeds
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registry districts - Chapter 36, Section 1
The counties of Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Middlesex and Worcester are for the registry of deeds severally divided into the following districts: In Berkshire, the middle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election; qualification; tenure - Chapter 36, Section 2
In each such district and in each county not divided into districts, a register of deeds, who shall be a resident of such district or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of office; bond - Chapter 36, Section 3
Each register of deeds shall be sworn before the county commissioners, or in Suffolk county before the city council of Boston, and prior to being...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers; appointment - Chapter 36, Section 4
Each register, with the approval of the superior court, may appoint an assistant register of deeds, removable at his pleasure, for whose official acts he...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex - Chapter 36, Section 5
The registers of deeds for Suffolk county and the southern district of Middlesex may, by a writing recorded in their respective registries, appoint one of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Second assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county - Chapter 36, Section 5A
The register of deeds for Norfolk county may, by a writing recorded in his registry, designate one of the persons employed therein as second assistant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county - Chapter 36, Section 6
The registers for the southern district of Essex, the county of Hampden and the Worcester district may, with the approval of their respective county commissioners,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chief clerk in Worcester district - Chapter 36, Section 7
The register for the Worcester district may, by a writing recorded in his registry, authorize a person employed in said registry to certify or attest,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties - Chapter 36, Section 8
During the disability of a register, or if a vacancy occurs in the office, the assistant register, or second assistant register, or if none, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal - Chapter 36, Section 9
If a register, upon presentment of the grand jury, is found guilty of misconduct in his official duties, or if from bodily or mental infirmity...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments - Chapter 36, Section 10
If, upon the death, removal or expiration of the term of a register, deeds or other instruments entered in the registry are unrecorded, or recorded...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office hours - Chapter 36, Section 11
Every register shall keep in his registry all books, records, deeds and papers belonging thereto, and shall keep the office open a fixed number of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Place of record - Chapter 36, Section 12
Every deed and other instrument required to be recorded in the registry of deeds shall be recorded in the registry of deeds for the district...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized - Chapter 36, Section 12A
A register of deeds may refuse to accept an instrument for recording if it cannot be properly duplicated or a proper record cannot be made
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district - Chapter 36, Section 13
If a deed or other writing affecting land has been recorded in a registry of deeds or registered in a registry district of the land...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plans, rules for filing in registries - Chapter 36, Section 13A
The registers of deeds, or a majority of them, may from time to time make and amend rules prescribing the size or sizes of plans...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plans; filing in registry of deeds; fees - Chapter 36, Section 13B
A plan, the original of which was prepared by an engineer, surveyor or draftsman who is no longer living or whose whereabouts is not known...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registry book; contents of entries; instrument number; changes and corrections - Chapter 36, Section 14
(a) Each register shall keep a record, in book or electronic form, into which the register shall enter recording information for all instruments accepted for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice - Chapter 36, Section 14A
A notice of certification of an historic or archeological site and a withdrawal of such certification, required to be recorded under the provisions of section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of recording documents; microphotographs - Chapter 36, Section 15
He shall record all instruments upon the pages of the record books in fair and legible handwriting or in print, and in continuous successive lines,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes - Chapter 36, Section 16
He shall record receipts of federal revenue collectors for succession taxes, or other evidence of their payment, if the person applying for such record first...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees - Chapter 36, Section 17
The register shall, at the expense of the county, procure and keep duplicate record books, in which he shall make fair and legible copies of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attestation of records by volume - Chapter 36, Section 18
He may attest the records by the volume, and the attestation shall be sufficient when the volume containing the same bears the attest, with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Illegible signatures - Chapter 36, Section 18A
The register or an assistant register may print or type the name of any person whose signature appears on any instrument filed for recording and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facsimile signatures - Chapter 36, Section 19
A facsimile of the signature of any register, imprinted by him, by an assistant register or by such office assistant as the register in writing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties - Chapter 36, Section 20
If an assignment, extension, partial release, release or discharge of a mortgage of land, or a certificate of the taking or surrender of possession for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages - Chapter 36, Section 21
When an instrument described in the preceding section affecting a mortgage is recorded, and it refers by book and page to the record of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation - Chapter 36, Section 22
If an assignment, release, partial release, discharge or disclaimer affecting title to land created by a sale or taking for payment of a tax or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments - Chapter 36, Section 23
He shall certify upon every instrument recorded by him the time when received and the number of the book and leaf or page where recorded.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; federal liens; filing fee - Chapter 36, Section 24
Notice of a federal tax lien which may be filed in the commonwealth or any other federal lien on any real property or fixtures shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy - Chapter 36, Section 24A
At any time after a petition in bankruptcy is filed, or a decree of adjudication or an order approving the trustee’s bond is made, pursuant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information - Chapter 36, Section 24B
The register, or said register as the assistant recorder of the land court, in each county except Dukes and Nantucket counties, shall, upon the request...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indexes; number; form - Chapter 36, Section 25
He shall keep two indexes, each divided into six columns, with headings in one as follows: And in the other as follows: In Suffolk county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entries in indexes; time and manner of making - Chapter 36, Section 26
He shall, within twenty-four hours after a deed or other instrument which he is by law required to record has been left for record, cause...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition - Chapter 36, Section 27
When an instrument by which a person transfers or conveys by authority of law the real estate of another is left for record, the register...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classified copies of indexes - Chapter 36, Section 28
Each register shall annually, at the expense of the county, cause competent persons to make copies of the indexes of the preceding year, in which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price - Chapter 36, Section 29
A register may, with the consent of the county commissioners, cause a competent person, at the expense of the county, to make copies of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimates of cost of indexing - Chapter 36, Section 30
Each register, except in Suffolk county, shall annually, before January first, file with the county commissioners an estimate in detail of the character, amount and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2 - Chapter 36, Section 31
Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to commissioner of revenue; recording - Chapter 36, Section 31A
Within sixty days after the recording of any deed in which the grantee is described as a trustee, or of any declaration of trust, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare - Chapter 36, Section 32
Whenever there is filed for record in a registry of deeds any deed of trust or other instrument creating or increasing an estate or fund...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications - Chapter 36, Section 32A
Whenever the register, in any communication, document or writing intended for use outside the registry, identifies a husband and wife, he shall use the name...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries - Chapter 36, Section 33
The salaries of registers of deeds and all assistant registers of deeds shall be paid by their respective counties; and the salaries of registers of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12 - Chapter 36, Section 34 to 36
Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation for title work - Chapter 36, Section 37
No register or assistant register shall demand or receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for title work performed by him or under his direction, in his
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerical assistants; compensation - Chapter 36, Section 38
Registers shall annually be allowed for clerical assistance in their respective registries, to be paid by their respective counties, such amounts as shall be approved...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; recordation; disposition - Chapter 36, Section 39
Each register shall enter in a cash book, which shall be the property of the county, all fees received by him for all official acts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Technology purchase’s by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers - Chapter 36, Section 40
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the state secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations to ensure that all technology...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge - Chapter 36, Section 41
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the fees of each of the registers of deeds and of the assistant recorders, except as...
Last modified: September 11, 2015