14 M.R.S. § 7401 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 735 / Section 7401
14 §7401. Replevy of distrained beasts
Status: in_force

Any person, whose beasts are distrained to obtain satisfaction for damages alleged to be done by them, may maintain a writ of replevin therefor against the distrainer before any District Court in the county, in the form prescribed by law or, if the value of the beasts distrained is more than $20, in the Superior Court.
14 M.R.S. § 2620 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2620
14 §2620. Settling value as between principal and trustee
Status: in_force

When, by the terms of the contract between the trustee and the principal debtor, any mode of ascertaining the value of the property to be delivered to the officer is pointed out, the officer shall, on application of the trustee, notify the principal debtor previous to the delivery that the value may be thus ascertained so far as it may affect the performance of the contract. In other cases the value of the property, as between the principal and the trustee, shall be estimated and ascertained by the appraisal of 3 disinterested men chosen, one by the trustee, one by the officer and one by the principal if he sees cause; and if he neglects or refuses, by the officer. They shall all be duly sworn to appraise the same and the officer, justice and appraisers shall certify their doings on the execution.
14 M.R.S. § 6032 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710-A / Section 6032
14 §6032. Maximum security deposit
Status: in_force

A lease or tenancy at will agreement for a dwelling intended for human habitation may not require a security deposit equivalent to more than the rent for 2 months. [PL 2009, c. 566, §22 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 2959 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2959
14 §2959. Effect of judgment against trustee
Status: in_force

A judgment against any person as trustee discharges him from all demands by the principal defendant or his executors or administrators for all goods, effects and credits paid, delivered or accounted for by the trustee thereon. If he is afterwards sued for the same by the defendant or his executors or administrators, such judgments and disposal of the goods, effects and credits, being proved, shall be a bar to the action for the amount so paid or delivered by him. Such payment, delivery or accounting for may be made either to the officer holding the execution or to the plaintiff or his attorney of record, and may be proved by the officer's return upon the execution, by indorsement made thereon by the plaintiff or his attorney of record or by any other competent evidence.
14 M.R.S. § 6965 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6965
14 §6965. Setoff of costs against improvements
Status: in_force

In all cases where the plaintiff does not abandon the premises to the defendant, the court may, on written application of either party during the term when judgment is entered, order the costs recovered by the plaintiff to be setoff against the appraised value of the buildings and improvements on the land. A record of this order shall be made, and the court shall thereupon enter judgment according as the balance is in favor of one party or the other.
14 M.R.S. § 3575 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 504 / Section 3575
14 §3575. Transfers fraudulent as to present and future creditors
Status: in_force

1. Fraudulent transfer. A transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor, whether the creditor's claim arose before or after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred, if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation: A. With actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of the debtor; or [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. Without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligations and the debtor: (1) Was engaged or was about to engage in a business or a transaction for which the remaining assets of the debtor were unreasonably small in relation to the business or transaction; or (2) Intended to incur, or believed or reasonably should have believed that he would incur, debts beyond his ability to pay as the debts became due. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

2. Determination of actual intent. In determining actual intent under subsection 1, paragraph A , consideration may be given, among other factors, to whether: A. The transfer or obligation was to an insider; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. The debtor retained possession or control of the property transferred after the transfer; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] C. The transfer or obligation was disclosed or concealed; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] D. Before the transfer was made or obligation was incurred, the debtor sued or threatened with suit; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] E. The transfer was of substantially all the debtor's assets; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] F. The debtor absconded; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] G. The debtor removed or concealed assets; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] H. The value of the consideration received by the debtor was reasonably equivalent to the value of the asset transferred or the amount of the obligation incurred; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] I. The debtor was insolvent or became insolvent shortly after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] J. The transfer occurred shortly before or shortly after a substantial debt was incurred; and [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] K. The debtor transferred the essential assets of the business to a lienor who had transferred the assets to an insider of the debtor. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6053 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 711 / Section 6053
14 §6053. Property of debtor out of State or of uncertain value
Status: in_force

The court has jurisdiction of cases mentioned in section 6051, subsection 11 , notwithstanding the fact that the property sought to be reached and applied is in the hands, possession or control of the debtor independently of any other person, or that it is not within the State, or that it is of uncertain value, provided the value can be ascertained by a sale or appraisal, or by any means within the ordinary procedure of the court, or that it cannot be reached and applied until a future time.
14 M.R.S. § 6103 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6103
14 §6103. Judicial determination of breach of condition
Status: in_force

In all cases where a debtor has mortgaged real and personal estate to secure the performance of a collateral agreement or undertaking, other than the payment of money, and proceedings have been commenced to foreclose said mortgage for alleged breach of the conditions thereof, but the time of redemption has not expired, any person having any claim against the mortgagor and having attached said mortgagor's interest in said estate on said claim may file a complaint in the Superior Court in the county where such agreement has to be performed, where the owner of such mortgage resides or where the property mortgaged is situated, alleging such facts and praying for relief. Said court may examine into the facts and ascertain whether there has been a breach of the conditions of said mortgage, and if such is found to be the fact, may assess the damages arising therefrom, and may make such orders and decrees in the premises as will secure the rights of said mortgagee or his assignee, so far as the same can be reasonably accomplished, and enable the creditor, by fulfilling such requirements as the court may impose, to hold said property, or such right or interest as may remain therein by virtue of such attachment, for the satisfaction of his claim. Such claim may include possession of the property by the mortgagee for such time as the court deems just and equitable. Pending such proceedings, the right of redemption shall not expire by any attempted foreclosure of such mortgage.
14 M.R.S. § 302 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 13 / Section 302
14 §302. Action for loss of consortium
Status: in_force

A married person may bring a civil action in that person's own name for loss of consortium of that person's spouse. [PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. C, §1 (NEW); PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. E, §2 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 2608 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2608
14 §2608. Corporation as trustee; answer and disclosure
Status: in_force

Except as provided in section 2608-A , all domestic corporations and all foreign or alien companies or corporations established by the laws of any other state or country and having a place of business or doing business within this State may be summoned as trustees, and trustee summonses may be served on them as other process is served on any such companies or corporations. They may answer by attorney or agent and make disclosures, which must be signed and sworn to by an attorney or agent or another person upon whom legal service of the summons may be made. The same proceedings must thereupon be had throughout except necessary changes in form, as in other cases of foreign attachment. [PL 2003, c. 149, §5 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 4654 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 4654
14 §4654. Execution not timely; motion against debtor
Status: in_force

When execution is not issued within the times prescribed by sections 4652 and 4653 , motion against the debtor may be made to show cause why execution on the judgment should not be issued, and if no sufficient cause is shown, execution may be issued thereon.
14 M.R.S. § 3121-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502 / Section 3121-A
14 §3121-A. Venue
Status: in_force

1. Commencement of proceedings. Notwithstanding Title 4, section 155 and any provisions set forth elsewhere, and except as provided in subsection 2 and Title 19‑A, section 2361, subsection 2 , any proceeding under this chapter must be commenced in a division of the District Court as follows. A. Except as provided in paragraph D , if the judgment debtor is an individual who resides within this State, the proceeding must be commenced in the division in which the judgment debtor resides. [PL 1995, c. 419, §7 (AMD).] B. Except as provided in paragraph D , if the judgment debtor is a nonresident individual, the proceeding must be commenced in the division in which the debtor is commorant. [PL 1995, c. 419, §7 (AMD).] C. Except as provided in paragraph D , if the judgment debtor is not an individual, the proceeding must be commenced in a division in which the debtor maintains a place of business. If the judgment debtor does not maintain a place of business in this State, the proceeding must be commenced in a division in which a civil summons could be served upon the debtor or in any division in which the action resulting in the judgment could have been brought. [PL 1995, c. 419, §7 (AMD).] D. Any proceeding under this chapter may be commenced in the division where the judgment creditor, if an individual, resides or, if not an individual, has a place of business, except that a consumer debt proceeding must be commenced, at the option of the creditor, in the division where the consumer transaction occurred or where the judgment debtor resides. Consumer debts are limited to debts arising from purchases that are primarily for personal, family or household purposes. [PL 1989, c. 655 (AMD).] [PL 1995, c. 694, §17 (AMD); PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. E, §2 (AFF).]

2. Civil order of arrest; contempt. Any proceeding under this chapter in which the judgment debtor is an individual who resides in this State shall be transferred to the division in which the debtor resides immediately after: A. The issuance of a civil order of arrest pursuant to section 3134, subsection 1 , or section 3136 ; or [PL 1987, c. 184, §4 (NEW).] B. The filing of a motion for contempt pursuant to section 3134, subsection 2 . [PL 1987, c. 184, §4 (NEW).] The division in which the judgment debtor resides shall be set forth in the affidavit or statement under oath required by section 3134, subsection 1 or 2 , or section 3136, subsection 1 . Any civil order of arrest issued pursuant to section 3134, subsection 1 , or section 3136 , and any contempt subpoena or civil contempt order issued pursuant to section 3134, subsection 2 , shall be returnable only to the division in which the judgment debtor resides if that debtor is an individual who resides in this State. Any proceedings in which the judgment debtor is not such a resident individual shall be maintained as provided in subsection 1 . [PL 1987, c. 184, §4 (NEW).]

3. Improper venue, transfer, objection. If any proceeding under this chapter is brought or continued in the wrong division, the court, upon motion or its own initiative, may transfer the proceeding to the proper division. Any objection to improper venue is waived if not made before the entry of any order under this section after the appearance of the judgment debtor before the court. The court, at any time and upon motion or its own initiative, may transfer a proceeding under this subsection to another division for the convenience of the parties or witnesses, or in the interest of justice or equity. [PL 1987, c. 184, §4 (NEW).]

4. Consent. With the approval of the court, any proceeding under this chapter may be commenced or continued in any division consented to by the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor. [PL 1987, c. 184, §4 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 7558 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 739 / Section 7558
14 §7558. Damages and penalties
Status: in_force

Actions to recover any of the sums or penalties named in sections 7556 and 7557 may be brought in the Superior Court or the District Court.
14 M.R.S. § 1301 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1301
14 §1301. For cause
Status: in_force

The court, on motion of either party in an action, may examine, on oath, any person called as a juror therein, whether he is related to either party, has given or formed an opinion or is sensible of any bias, prejudice or particular interest in the cause. If it appears from his answers or from any competent evidence that he does not stand indifferent in the cause, another juror shall be called and placed in his stead.
14 M.R.S. § 8110 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 741 / Section 8110
14 §8110. Limitation of actions
Status: in_force

Every claim against a governmental entity or its employees permitted under this chapter is forever barred from the courts of this State, unless an action therein is begun within 2 years after the cause of action accrues, except that, if the claimant is a minor when the cause of action accrues, the action may be brought within 2 years of the minor's attaining 18 years of age. [PL 2001, c. 249, §2 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 2628 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2628
14 §2628. Money or thing trusteed before it is payable
Status: in_force

Any money or other thing due absolutely to the principal defendant may be attached before it has become payable, but the trustee is not required to pay or deliver it before the time appointed therefor by the contract.
14 M.R.S. § 5954 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 707 / Section 5954
14 §5954. Construction and validity of statutes
Status: in_force

Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
14 M.R.S. § 1103 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 301 / Section 1103
14 §1103. Petition for assignment of another justice
Status: in_force

Within 10 days after the service of a complaint or other application in which equitable relief is sought, the defendant, prior to the filing of his answer, may petition in writing for good cause shown to the Chief Justice of the Superior Court for the assignment of a justice to preside on the matter other than the justice to whom the original complaint or application was presented. Upon the receipt of that petition the Chief Justice of the Superior Court may assign another justice to hear the matter. When the Chief Justice of the Superior Court is presiding on the matter, a petition for the assignment of a justice, other than the Chief Justice of the Superior Court, shall be made to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Upon the receipt of that petition the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court may assign another justice to hear the matter. [PL 1983, c. 688, §6 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 156 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 156
14 §156. Comparative negligence
Status: in_force

When any person suffers death or damage as a result partly of that person's own fault and partly of the fault of any other person or persons, a claim in respect of that death or damage may not be defeated by reason of the fault of the person suffering the damage, but the damages recoverable in respect thereof must be reduced to such extent as the jury thinks just and equitable having regard to the claimant's share in the responsibility for the damage. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

When damages are recoverable by any person by virtue of this section, subject to such reduction as is mentioned, the court shall instruct the jury to find and record the total damages that would have been recoverable if the claimant had not been at fault, and further instruct the jury to reduce the total damages by dollars and cents, and not by percentage, to the extent considered just and equitable, having regard to the claimant's share in the responsibility for the damages, and instruct the jury to return both amounts with the knowledge that the lesser figure is the final verdict in the case. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

Fault means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or omission that gives rise to a liability in tort or would, apart from this section, give rise to the defense of contributory negligence. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

If such claimant is found by the jury to be equally at fault, the claimant may not recover. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

In a case involving multiparty defendants, each defendant is jointly and severally liable to the plaintiff for the full amount of the plaintiff's damages. However, any defendant has the right through the use of special interrogatories to request of the jury the percentage of fault contributed by each defendant. If a defendant is released by the plaintiff under an agreement that precludes the plaintiff from collecting against remaining parties that portion of any damages attributable to the released defendant's share of responsibility, then the following rules apply. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

1. General rule. The released defendant is entitled to be dismissed with prejudice from the case. The dismissal bars all related claims for contribution assertable by remaining parties against the released defendant. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (NEW); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

2. Post-dismissal procedures. The trial court must preserve for the remaining parties a fair opportunity to adjudicate the liability of the released and dismissed defendant. Remaining parties may conduct discovery against a released and dismissed defendant and invoke evidentiary rules at trial as if the released and dismissed defendant were still a party. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (NEW); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]

3. Binding effect. To apportion responsibility in the pending action for claims that were included in the settlement and presented at trial, a finding on the issue of the released and dismissed defendant's liability binds all parties to the suit, but such a finding has no binding effect in other actions relating to other damage claims. [PL 1999, c. 633, §1 (NEW); PL 1999, c. 633, §3 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 5605 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 6-A / Chapter 621 / Section 5605
14 §5605. Community service work for a person who violates a municipal ordinance
Status: in_force

1. Community service work. The court may order a person adjudicated as having violated a municipal ordinance to perform a specific number of hours of community service work for the benefit of the State, a county, a municipality, a school administrative district or other public entity, a charitable institution or other entity approved by the court if the municipality whose ordinance is violated has a community service work program that provides oversight of the community service order and ensures meaningful compliance with the community service requirements. [PL 2013, c. 114, §1 (NEW).]

2. Failure to perform work. An adjudicated person who is ordered to perform community service work pursuant to subsection 1 and who fails to complete the work within the time specified by the court must be returned to the court for further disposition. [PL 2013, c. 114, §1 (NEW).]

3. Supervision. Neither the judicial branch nor the Department of Corrections is responsible for supervision of community service work pursuant to this section. [PL 2013, c. 114, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6024 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710 / Section 6024
14 §6024. Heat and utilities in common areas
Status: in_force

A landlord may not enter into a lease or tenancy at will agreement for a dwelling unit in a multi-unit residential building where the expense of furnishing heat or electricity or any other utility to the common areas or other area not within the unit is the sole responsibility of the tenant in that unit, unless both parties to the lease or tenancy at will agreement have agreed in writing that the tenant will pay for such costs in return for a stated reduction in rent or other specified fair consideration that approximates the actual cost of providing heat or utilities to the common areas. "Common areas" includes, but is not limited to, hallways, stairwells, basements, attics, storage areas, fuel furnaces or water heaters used in common with other tenants. Except as provided in this section, a written or oral waiver of this requirement is against public policy and is void. Any person in violation of this section is liable to the tenant for actual damages or $250, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs. In any action brought pursuant to this section, there is a rebuttable presumption that the landlord is aware that the tenant has been furnishing heat or utility service to common areas or other units. If the landlord rebuts this presumption, the landlord is required to comply with this section but is only liable to the tenant for actual damages suffered by the tenant. [PL 2009, c. 566, §10 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 2709 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2709
14 §2709. Trustee may submit statement of facts
Status: in_force

If a person summoned admits that he has in his hands goods, effects or credits of the principal or wishes to refer that question to the court upon the facts, he may make a declaration of such facts as he deems material and submit himself thereupon to a further examination on oath. Such declaration and further examination, if any, shall be sworn to as before provided for in this chapter.
14 M.R.S. § 2009 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2009
14 §2009. Levy on rents and profits
Status: in_force

When the estate cannot be described as provided in section 2003 , the execution may be levied on its rents and profits, and the officer may give seizin thereof to the creditor, and cause a person in possession to become tenant to him or, on his refusal, may turn him out and give possession to the creditor.
14 M.R.S. § 204 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Section 204
14 §204. Judgment when defense prevails
Status: in_force

When the plaintiff in the subsequent action prevails, judgment shall be rendered against the plaintiff in the prior action and in favor of the plaintiff in the subsequent action, and execution issued thereon for his costs. Costs may or may not be awarded to the original defendant.
14 M.R.S. § 2252 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2252
14 §2252. Attachment and sale of rights to redeem
Status: in_force

The right of a debtor to redeem from a sale or from a levy by appraisement may be attached and sold on execution, as an equity of redemption may be, and the parties have the same rights and remedies. Attachments of such estate or equity of redemption, made before such levy or sale, are effectual on such right of redeeming, in the order in which they were made, in preference to attachments made subsequent to such levy or sale.
14 M.R.S. § 5546 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 6 / Chapter 609 / Section 5546
14 §5546. Habeas corpus for mentally ill person
Status: in_force

When a mentally ill person is arrested or imprisoned on mesne process or execution in a civil action, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court or of the Superior Court or the judge of probate within his county, on application, may inquire into the case; issue a writ of habeas corpus; cause such person to be brought before him for examination; and after notice to the creditor or his attorney, if either is living in the State, and a hearing, if it is proved to the satisfaction of said justice or judge that the person is mentally ill, he may discharge him from arrest or imprisonment; and the creditor may make a new arrest on the same demand when the debtor becomes of sound mind. If he is arrested on the same demand a 2nd time before he becomes of sound mind and is again discharged for that reason, he is forever after exempt from arrest for the same cause.
14 M.R.S. § 8116 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 741 / Section 8116
14 §8116. Liability insurance
Status: in_force

The legislative or executive body or any department of the State or any political subdivision may procure insurance against liability for any claim against it or its employees for which immunity is waived under this chapter or under any other law. If the insurance provides protection in excess of the limit of liability imposed by section 8105 , then the limits provided in the insurance policy shall replace the limit imposed by section 8105 . If the insurance provides coverage in areas where the governmental entity is immune, the governmental entity shall be liable in those substantive areas but only to the limits of the insurance coverage. Reserve funds, excess insurance or reinsurance contracts maintained by a governmental entity, by an insurer providing liability insurance or by a public self-funded pool to meet obligations imposed by this Act shall not increase the limits of liability imposed by section 8105 . [PL 1987, c. 740, §15 (AMD).]

A governmental entity or a public self-funded pool, which self-insures against the obligations and liabilities imposed by this Act, shall designate funds set aside to meet such obligations and liabilities as self-insurance funds. Any such governmental entity which self-insures under this Act or any entity that is a member of a public self-funded pool shall maintain as part of its public records a written statement which shall include a provision setting forth the financial limits of liability assumed by the governmental entity, those limits to be no less than the limits imposed in this Act, and a provision setting forth the scope of the liability assumed by the governmental entity, or the pool, that scope to be no less than that imposed in this Act. [PL 1985, c. 713, §2 (AMD).]

A governmental entity may purchase insurance or may self-insure on behalf of its employees to insure them against any personal liability for which a governmental entity is obligated or entitled to provide defense or indemnity under section 8112 . [PL 1987, c. 740, §16 (RPR).]

Any insurance purchased by the State under this section must be purchased through the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Risk Management Division.
14 M.R.S. § 7105 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 727 / Section 7105
14 §7105. Claimant may sue at common law; disclosure
Status: in_force

The claimant may have his suit at common law against such attorney before filing such motion or after an adverse decision thereon. If judgment is recovered against the attorney in either mode, the fact shall be noted on the margin of the execution issued thereon. When the debtor is arrested thereon, he shall be committed to jail and no citation to disclose shall be issued until he has been there for 90 days.
14 M.R.S. § 2202 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2202
14 §2202. Notice of sale
Status: in_force

The officer in such case shall give written notice of the time and place of sale to the debtor in person or by leaving the same at his last and usual place of abode, if known to be an inhabitant of the State, and cause it to be posted in a public place in the town where the land lies and in 2 adjoining towns, if so many adjoin; and if the land is situated in 2 or more towns, then in each of those towns and in 2 towns adjoining each of them; and if the land is in 2 or more counties and is contiguous, an officer in either county may take or seize on execution all the right of the debtor in such land, give, post and cause the notices to be published as required, and sell the whole right. When the land is not within any town, the notice shall be posted in 2 public places of the shire town of the county in which the land lies, instead of the posting aforesaid. When the debtor is not a resident of such county, the personal notice may be forwarded to him by mail, postage paid; all to be done 30 days before the day of sale. The notice shall be published for 3 weeks successively before the day of sale in a newspaper of general circulation in such county. [PL 1987, c. 667, §9 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6704 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6704
14 §6704. Writs of possession; judgment conclusive
Status: in_force

If the plaintiff recovers judgment in any such case, the court may order one or more writs of possession to issue, as may be necessary, against all such as have been so notified, whether they appeared and defended or not; and such judgment is conclusive on them.

Within 30 days after the judgment is recovered, the clerk of the court from which the judgment issues shall forward to the registry of deeds in the county where the real estate is situated a true copy of the property described in the judgment, together with the names of the parties, the date of judgment and the term of court in which the judgment was rendered, and the register of deeds receiving such copy shall forthwith file the same, minuting thereon the time of the reception thereof, and record in the same manner as a deed of real estate, and the fee of the clerk of the court for preparing the copy shall be $1 and the register of deeds shall be paid the fee set in Title 33, section 751 for entering and recording the same. Such sums shall be paid by the plaintiff. [PL 1981, c. 279, §8 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 5501 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 6 / Chapter 609 / Section 5501
14 §5501. Right to writ
Status: in_force

Every person unlawfully deprived of his personal liberty by the act of another, except in the cases mentioned, shall of right have a writ of habeas corpus according to the provisions herein contained.
14 M.R.S. § 2901 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2901
14 §2901. Discontinuance of action
Status: in_force

When a trustee action is discontinued or settled by the principal parties to the action, the trustee is entitled to no costs if the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, at least 7 days before the trustee's disclosure under oath is required to be served, notifies the trustee in writing that the action has been discontinued. Upon conclusion of the principal action, when the goods, effects or credits trusteed are not to be used to satisfy a judgment, the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney shall notify the trustee in writing within 30 days of the extinguishment of plaintiff's claim to such property. [PL 2003, c. 149, §8 (AMD).]

If the trustee discloses possession of goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant, or by virtue of default is adjudged trustee, and the trusteed funds are not collected or released within 7 years, they must be presumed abandoned under Title 33, chapter 45 unless the trustee is served with a certificate of the clerk of the appropriate court, between 30 and 90 days prior to such date, evidencing that the principal action is still pending. [PL 2019, c. 498, §10 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 807 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 807
14 §807. Minors and other disabled persons
Status: in_force

When such right of entry or action first accrues, if the person thereto entitled is a minor, mentally ill, imprisoned or absent from the United States, he, or anyone claiming under him, may make the entry or bring the action at any time within 10 years after such disability is removed, notwithstanding 20 years have expired.
14 M.R.S. § 6662 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 723 / Section 6662
14 §6662. Extinguishment of mineral rights
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Mineral" means all naturally occurring mineral deposits, including hydrocarbons and peat, but excluding sand, gravel and water. [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).] B. "Mineral interest" means the interest in minerals which is created by an instrument transferring by grant, assignment, lease or otherwise, any interest in any mineral. [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).] C. "Use of the mineral interest" means: (1) Payment of rents or royalties for the option or exercise of mineral rights; (2) Payment of the excise tax under Title 36, section 2856 ; (3) Extraction of minerals from the ground in quantities in excess of that necessary to conduct exploratory activity; or (4) Filing of a statement of claim under subsection 3 . [PL 2025, c. 469, §5 (AMD); PL 2025, c. 469, §44 (AFF).] [PL 2025, c. 469, §5 (AMD); PL 2025, c. 469, §44 (AFF).]

2. Claim. A person claiming an estate in a mineral interest may maintain an action, as provided in sections 6651 to 6654 or sections 6655 to 6657 , without the necessity of showing 4 years of possession next prior to filing of that complaint, provided that the person is the fee simple owner of the land which is subject to that interest. [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).]

3. Assertion of claim. An owner, assignee or lessee of a mineral interest may file a statement of claim with the registrar of deeds of the county in which the land subject to the mineral interest is located. The claim shall contain his name and address, a description of the land that is subject to that interest and a legal description of the mineral interest. [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).]

4. Court; finding. The court, in an action brought under subsection 2 , shall find that the mineral interest is extinguished and shall order that title to the mineral interest is in the complainant if: A. The owner, assignee or lessee of the mineral interest has failed to make use of the mineral interest during a period of 50 consecutive years next prior to the filing of the complaint; and [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).] B. Two years have passed since notice of the complaint under subsection 2 was served and the owner, assignee or lessee of the mineral interest has not filed a statement of claim under subsection 3 during that period. [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).] [PL 1983, c. 189 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 510 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 201 / Section 510
14 §510. Replevin
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in section 509 , an action for replevin must be brought either in the division or county where a plaintiff or defendant resides, where the underlying transaction involving the personal property was made or where any of the personal property is located. [PL 2009, c. 245, §4 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 3126-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502 / Section 3126-A
14 §3126-A. Installment payments
Status: in_force

Following a disclosure hearing, the court shall determine the amount, if any, of the installment payments that the judgment debtor must make to the judgment creditor. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

1. Definition. For purposes of this section, "exempt income" means the debtor's right to receive: A. A social security benefit, unemployment compensation or a local public assistance benefit; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] B. A veteran's benefit; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] C. A disability, illness or unemployment benefit; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] D. Alimony, support or separate maintenance, to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and any dependents of the debtor; and [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] E. A payment or account under a stock bonus, pension, profit sharing, annuity, individual retirement account or similar plan to the extent described in section 4422, subsection 13, paragraph E . [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

2. Installment payment order not permitted. The court may not order a judgment debtor to make installment payments if the judgment debtor is receiving or will receive money or earnings only from a source or sources exempt from attachment and execution under sections 4421 to 4426 . [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

3. Maximum amount of earnings subject to installment payment order. In the case of a judgment debtor who is an individual, the maximum amount of earnings for any workweek that is subject to an installment order may not exceed the least of: A. Twenty-five percent of the sum of the judgment debtor's disposable earnings and exempt income for that week; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] B. The amount by which the sum of disposable earnings and exempt income for that week exceeds 40 times the minimum hourly wage prescribed by 29 United States Code, Section 206(a)(1) or the state minimum hourly wage prescribed by Title 26, section 664 , whichever is higher at the time the earnings are payable; or [PL 2021, c. 382, §1 (AMD).] C. The total amount of disposable earnings. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 382, §1 (AMD).]

4. Factors to consider in determining amount of installment payment order. In determining the amount of installment payments, the court may take into consideration: A. The reasonable requirements of the judgment debtor and the judgment debtor's dependents; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] B. Any payments the judgment debtor is required to make to satisfy other judgment orders or wage assignments; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] C. Other judgment orders or wage assignments that have priority; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] D. The amount due on the judgment; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] E. The amount of money or earnings being or to be received; and [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] F. Any other factors the court considers material and relevant. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

5. Manner of making payments. The court may prescribe the time, place and manner in which payments are to be made. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

6. Certain orders not subject to limitations. The limitations set forth in subsection 3 do not apply to: A. An order for the support of any person issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or in accordance with an administrative procedure if the administrative procedure is established by state law, affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review; [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] B. An order of any court of the United States having jurisdiction over cases under 11 United States Code, chapter 13; or [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] C. A debt due for state or federal tax. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

7. Maximum earnings subject to garnishment. The maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek that is subject to garnishment to enforce an order for the support of any person may not exceed: A. When the individual is supporting a spouse or dependent child, other than a spouse or child with respect to whose support such order is used, 50% of that individual's disposable earnings for that week; and [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] B. When the individual is not supporting such a spouse or dependent child described in paragraph A , 60% of that individual's disposable earnings for that week. [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).] If the support order being enforced is made with respect to a period that is prior to the 12-week period that ends with the beginning of that workweek, the percentage of disposable earnings subject to the garnishment is 55% under paragraph A and 65% under paragraph B . [PL 1999, c. 587, §3 (NEW).]

8. Order to Department of Labor. When it is shown upon ex parte motion and affidavit that the judgment debtor has failed to make 2 or more payments required by an installment payment order under this section, the court shall order the Department of Labor to provide the judgment creditor with the name and address of the current or most recent employer of the judgment debtor, if any, together with the date the employer last reported wage information concerning the judgment debtor. The affidavit must specify the manner of application of all payments made pursuant to the installment payment order. An order directed to the Department of Labor under this section may be served by the judgment creditor by ordinary mail, accompanied by a reasonable fee set by the Department of Labor calculated to cover the full labor, overhead and other costs of administering the order pursuant to state rules and federal regulations. The Department of Labor shall respond to the judgment creditor within 20 days after receipt of the court order. [PL 2015, c. 275, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6016-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 709 / Section 6016-A
14 §6016-A. Sexual harassment prohibited; Maine Human Rights Act
Status: in_force

A landlord or a landlord's agent may not subject a tenant to sexual harassment. [PL 2019, c. 351, §4 (NEW).]

Nothing in this subchapter limits the application of the Maine Human Rights Act. [PL 2019, c. 351, §4 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2602-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2602-A
14 §2602-A. Attorneys' liens; allegedly stolen property
Status: in_force

In any civil action in which the plaintiff or plaintiffs seek the restoration of or compensation for money or other personal property allegedly taken by theft by the defendant or defendants and in which trustee process is used with regard to such money or other personal property, the claim of the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall have priority over an attorney's lien for services performed or to be performed for the defendant or defendants. [PL 1975, c. 690 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 1205 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1205
14 §1205. Supernumeraries, transfers and excuses
Status: in_force

Supernumerary jurors may be excused from time to time until wanted, and they may be placed on either jury as occasion requires. Jurors may be transferred from one jury to the other when convenience requires it. For good reason any juror may be excused.
14 M.R.S. § 3126 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502 / Section 3126
14 §3126. Fees and costs
Status: in_force

The disclosure subpoena, return of service and the writ of execution or an attested copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk, together with a filing fee as established by the Supreme Judicial Court pursuant to Title 4, section 175 . The fee and actual costs of service shall be added to the judgment, unless the judgment creditor or his attorney fails to appear in accordance with section 3125 or unless the judge orders otherwise. Costs of service incurred by the creditor, in addition to the filing fee and the service of the disclosure subpoena, may be imposed upon the judgment debtor or the 3rd party at the discretion of the court. [PL 1987, c. 184, §8 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6304 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6304
14 §6304. Effect of payment or tender
Status: in_force

When the amount due on a mortgage has been paid or tendered to the mortgagee, or person claiming under him, by the mortgagor or the person claiming under him, within the time so limited, he may bring a civil action for the redemption of the mortgaged premises, and compel the mortgagee, or person claiming under him, by a decree of the Superior Court, to release to him all his right and title therein; although such mortgagee or his assignee has never had actual possession of the premises for breach of the condition; or, without having made a tender before the commencement of the action, he may bring a civil action in the manner prescribed in section 6301 , and the cause shall be tried in the same manner.
14 M.R.S. § 507 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 201 / Section 507
14 §507. State action to recover funds or property
Status: in_force

An action in behalf of the State to enforce the collection of state taxes upon any corporation or to recover of any person or corporation moneys due the State, public funds or property belonging to the State, or the value thereof, may be brought in any county. On motion of the defendant, any Justice of the Superior Court may, for sufficient reasons shown, remove the same to the docket of said court in any other county for trial and may, upon such removal, award costs to the defendant for one term, to be paid by the Treasurer of State on presentation of the certificate of the amount thereof from the clerk of courts of the county from which said action is transferred.
14 M.R.S. § 4760 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 4760
14 §4760. Buildings on leased land sold for land rent; redemption
Status: in_force

When a lessor of lands, leased for the purpose of erecting a building thereon, commences an action against the lessee, attaches the buildings within 6 months after the rent becomes due and recovers such rent, he may on execution cause the rents and profits of such buildings to be sold for a term sufficient to pay the debt and costs or cause such building to be sold like any other personal estate. In all cases, any mill or building seized and sold on execution as a chattel personal may be redeemed within one year, as land levied upon by appraisement may be. The remedies and rights of the parties are the same as those of mortgagor and mortgagee, except the rate of interest, which shall be 10% a year.
14 M.R.S. § 1201-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1201-A
14 §1201-A. Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

It is the policy of the State that all persons chosen for jury service be selected at random from the broadest feasible cross section of the population of the area served by the court, that all qualified citizens have the opportunity in accordance with this chapter to be considered for jury service and that qualified citizens fulfill their obligation to serve as jurors when summoned for that purpose. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2607 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2607
14 §2607. When trustees may appear for principal
Status: in_force

When the principal is out of the State at the time of service and has no agent therein and does not appear in his own person or by attorney, any one or more of the trustees having goods, effects or credits in their hands, and being adjudged trustees, may appear in his behalf and in his name plead and defend the cause.
14 M.R.S. § 4609 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4609
14 §4609. Certificate of proceedings from clerk recorded
Status: in_force

The clerk shall give the petitioner an attested copy of the petition and proceedings with a certificate under seal of the court attached thereto, that such bond has been duly filed in his office. The recording of such copy and certificate in the registry of deeds in the county where such real estate or interest therein lies vacates the attachment.
14 M.R.S. § 7251 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 733 / Section 7251
14 §7251. Civil action for penalties
Status: in_force

Penalties may be recovered by civil action.
14 M.R.S. § 2711 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2711
14 §2711. Time extended for trustee to disclose
Status: in_force

The plaintiff and supposed trustee may by agreement entered on the docket extend the time within which the supposed trustee may make disclosure, preserving all the advantages that he would have on appearing and disclosing within the time required.
14 M.R.S. § 8601 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 755 / Section 8601
14 §8601. Actions by public employees and public officials for recordable instruments filed without a legal basis
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Public employee" means a person employed by the State, a county, a municipality or any entity identified in statute as a public instrumentality. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] B. "Public official" means a person elected or appointed to a public office. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] C. "Recordable instrument" means any lien or encumbrance, the false filing of which is identified as a crime under Title 17‑A, section 706‑A . [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).]

2. Expedited process for a court to review the filing of recordable instruments. This subsection governs the procedure by which a public employee or public official may dispute the filing of a recordable instrument at a registry of deeds. A. A public employee or public official who asserts that a recordable instrument was filed against property of the public employee or public official by a person who knows the recordable instrument is without a legal basis or was filed or presented for filing with the intent that the instrument be used to harass or hinder the public employee or public official in the exercise of the employee's or official's duties may file, at any time, a motion for a judicial declaration that the recordable instrument is without a legal basis. The motion may be filed in the Superior Court in the county where the public employee or public official resides. The motion must be supported by a signed and notarized affidavit of the moving party setting forth a concise statement of the facts upon which the claim for relief is based. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] B. The clerk of the court may not collect a filing fee for filing a motion under this subsection. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] C. The court's finding may be made solely on a review of the documentation attached to the motion and the responses, if any, and without hearing any oral testimony if none is offered. The court's review may be made only upon not less than 20 days' notice to each secured party or creditor named in the recordable instrument. Each secured party or creditor named in the recordable instrument may respond to the motion based on pleadings, depositions, admissions and affidavits. The court's review of the pleadings, depositions, admissions and affidavits may be advanced on the docket and receive priority over other cases when the court determines that the interests of justice so require. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] D. The court shall enter judgment in favor of the moving party only if the pleadings, depositions, admissions and affidavits on file show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] E. After review, the court shall enter an appropriate finding of fact and conclusion of law, an attested copy of which must be filed and indexed under the moving party's name in the registry of deeds where the original recordable instrument was filed. The copy must be sent within 7 days following the date that the finding of fact and conclusion of law are issued by the court. A secured party or creditor may appeal the finding of fact and conclusion of law as provided in the Maine Rules of Appellate Procedure. In addition to the notice requirements of the Maine Rules of Appellate Procedure, the secured party or creditor shall give notice of the appeal to the registry of deeds where the original recordable instrument was filed. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] This subsection is cumulative of other law under which a person may obtain judicial relief with respect to any filed or recorded document. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).]

3. Civil penalty and injunction. A person who violates this subsection is subject to civil penalties and other relief as provided in this subsection. A. A person may not knowingly file, attempt to file or cause to be filed in a registry of deeds a recordable instrument against the real or personal property of a public employee or a public official that the person knows: (1) Is without a legal basis; or (2) Was filed or presented for filing with the intent that the instrument be used to harass or hinder the public employee or public official in the exercise of the employee's or official's duties. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] B. A person who violates this subsection is liable to each public employee or public official under paragraph A for: (1) The greater of: (a) Ten thousand dollars; and (b) Damages equal to the amount of the recordable instrument that was filed or attempted to be filed; (2) Court costs; (3) Reasonable attorney's fees; (4) Related expenses of bringing the action, including investigative expenses; and (5) Punitive damages in an amount determined by the court. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] C. The following persons may bring an action to enjoin a violation of this subsection or to recover damages under this subsection: (1) The public employee or public official; and (2) The Attorney General. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] D. An action under this subsection may be brought in any court in Kennebec County or in a county where any of the persons named in the cause of action under this subsection reside. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] E. The fee for filing an action under this subsection is $25. The plaintiff must pay the fee to the clerk of the court in which the action is filed. The plaintiff may not be assessed any other fee, cost, charge or expense by the clerk of the court. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] F. A plaintiff who is unable to pay the filing fee and any fee for service of notice may follow the court procedures to waive such fees. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] G. If the fee imposed under paragraph E is less than the filing fee the court imposes for filing other similar actions and the plaintiff prevails in the action, the court may order a defendant to pay to the court the difference between the fee paid under paragraph E and the filing fee the court imposes for filing other similar actions. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).] This subsection is cumulative of other law under which a person may obtain judicial relief with respect to any filed or recorded document. This subsection is not intended to be an exclusive remedy. [PL 2013, c. 160, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 5936 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 706 / Section 5936
14 §5936. Fees and expenses of arbitration
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided in the agreement to arbitrate, the arbitrators' expenses and fees, together with other expenses, not including counsel fees, incurred in the conduct of the arbitration, shall be paid as provided in the award. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6022-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710 / Section 6022-A
14 §6022-A. Limit on initial amount paid by tenant
Status: in_force

1. Limit on amount required to initiate tenancy. Upon entering a lease or tenancy at will agreement, a landlord, landlord's agent or real estate broker may not require a tenant to pay an initial amount of money in excess of the total of the rent for the first full month of occupancy, a security deposit as limited by section 6032 and any mandatory recurring fee as defined in section 6000, subsection 1‑A that is properly disclosed under section 6030‑J. [PL 2023, c. 594, §8 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 594, §13 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 8903 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 761 / Section 8903
14 §8903. Applicability
Status: in_force

1. Enforcement of judgment. This Act applies to a Canadian judgment to the extent the judgment is within the scope of section 8803, if recognition of the judgment is sought to enforce the judgment. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]

2. Judgment for recovery of sum and other relief. A Canadian judgment that grants both recovery of a sum of money and other relief may be registered under this Act, but only to the extent of the grant of recovery of a sum of money. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]

3. Subject matter of judgment. A Canadian judgment regarding subject matter both within and not within the scope of this Act may be registered under this Act, but only to the extent the judgment is with regard to subject matter within the scope of this Act. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2902 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2902
14 §2902. Trustee entitled to costs; payment
Status: in_force

If any supposed trustee serves within the time required therefor a disclosure under oath declaring that at the time of the service of the trustee process upon him he had no goods, effects or credits of the principal in his possession and submitting himself to an examination, on oath, he is entitled to his costs as in civil actions where issue is joined for trial. If adjudged a trustee, he may deduct his costs from the goods, effects and credits in his hands and he shall be chargeable for the balance only to be paid on the execution. If such goods, effects and credits are not of sufficient value to discharge the costs taxed in his favor, he shall have judgment and execution against the plaintiff for the balance of such costs, after deducting the sum disclosed, in the same manner as if he had been discharged.
14 M.R.S. § 203 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Section 203
14 §203. Judgment when defense fails
Status: in_force

When the plaintiff in the subsequent action enters into recognizance and fails in his defense, execution on his recognizance shall be issued against him for the damages found by the court, and costs. Judgment shall be rendered between the original parties as if no such defense had been made.
14 M.R.S. § 602 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 602
14 §602. Liability of indorser
Status: in_force

In case of avoidance or inability of the plaintiff or petitioner, the indorser is liable, in a civil action brought within one year after the original judgment in the court in which it was rendered, to pay all costs recovered against the plaintiff. A return upon the execution by an officer of the county where the indorser lives, that he has demanded of the indorser payment thereof, and that he has neglected to pay or to show the officer personal property of the plaintiff sufficient to satisfy the execution, or that he cannot find the indorser within his precinct, is conclusive evidence of his liability in the action.
14 M.R.S. § 4561 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4561
14 §4561. Residence exemption
Status: in_force

Exemptions with respect to residences are governed by subchapter II, Article 7 . [PL 1981, c. 431, §4 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6402 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 715 / Section 6402
14 §6402. Secretary of State as receiving officer
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State is hereby designated as the officer to receive all documents deposited pursuant to Articles VI and VII . The Secretary of State is directed to act as the repository for all such documents and to keep and make available upon request a complete list of the states with which this State is party to the Interpleader Compact, together with such other information as may be in his possession concerning the status of such compact in respect to enactment and withdrawals therefrom.
14 M.R.S. § 2010 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2010
14 §2010. Part taken, damage to whole
Status: in_force

When the premises consist of a mill, mill privilege or other estate more than sufficient to satisfy the execution, which cannot be divided by metes and bounds without damage to the whole, an undivided part of it may be taken and the whole described, or it may be levied on as provided in section 2009 .
14 M.R.S. § 7304 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 735 / Section 7304
14 §7304. Writ of return where defendant prevails; judgment when property held as security
Status: in_force

If it appears that the defendant is entitled to a return of the goods, he shall have judgment and a writ of return accordingly, with damages for the taking and costs. If the plaintiff claims the property replevied as security for a debt, his claim shall be discharged by payment or tender thereof, with interest and costs; and judgment shall be for a return without costs, unless his title has become absolute by a legal foreclosure.
14 M.R.S. § 554 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 554
14 §554. New process after loss or destruction
Status: in_force

When in an action pending, the loss or destruction of a writ, complaint or other process after service is proved by affidavit or otherwise, the court may allow a new one to be filed, corresponding thereto as nearly as may be, with the same effect as the one lost or destroyed.
14 M.R.S. § 406 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 15 / Section 406
14 §406. Application to court
Status: in_force

An application to the court for a protective order or to enforce, quash or modify a subpoena issued by a clerk of court under section 403 must comply with the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure and be submitted to the District Court in the district or to the Superior Court of the county in which the discovery is to be or is being conducted. [PL 2019, c. 109, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 4352 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4352
14 §4352. Perishable goods; sale without consent
Status: in_force

When personal property liable to perish, be wasted, greatly reduced in value by keeping or be kept at great expense is attached, and the parties do not consent to a sale thereof, the same may be ordered sold either before or after entry of the action, in accordance with sections 4158 and 4353 to 4355 .
14 M.R.S. § 816 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 816
14 §816. Limitations of actions for uncultivated lands in incorporated places
Status: in_force

No real or mixed action for the recovery of uncultivated lands or of any undivided fractional part thereof, situated in any place incorporated for any purpose, shall be commenced or maintained against any person, or entry made thereon, when such person or those under whom he claims have, continuously for the 20 years next prior to the commencement of such action or the making of such entry, claimed said lands or said undivided fractional part thereof under recorded deeds; and have, during said 20 years, paid all taxes assessed on said lands or on such undivided fractional part thereof, however said tax may have been assessed whether on an undivided fractional part of said lands or on a certain number of acres thereof equal approximately to the acreage of said lands or of said fractional part thereof; and have, during said 20 years, held such exclusive, peaceable, continuous and adverse possession thereof as comports with the ordinary management of such lands or of undivided fractional parts of such lands in this State.
14 M.R.S. § 7308 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 735 / Section 7308
14 §7308. Judgment if plaintiff recovers
Status: in_force

If it appears that the goods were taken, attached or detained unlawfully, the plaintiff shall have judgment for his damages caused thereby and for his costs.
14 M.R.S. § 6049 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710-D / Section 6049
14 §6049. Required notice
Status: in_force

1. Required notice of change in terms. A lessor must give a lessee at least 30 days' notice of a change in the terms of a lease. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §12 (RPR).]

2. Required notice of termination. Unless the lease is terminated for cause, a lessor must give notice to a lessee of the intent to terminate the lease at least one year prior to the effective date of the termination. All terms of the lease remain in effect following the notice, except that: A. Termination provisions of the lease to the extent inconsistent with this section are void, beginning on the date the notice is provided; [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §12 (RPR).] B. The lessee may terminate the lease earlier than the effective date provided in the notice; and [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §12 (RPR).] C. If the lessee violates the lease during the period between the giving of the notice and the termination date provided in the notice, this section no longer applies and the lessee has only the rights provided in the lease. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §12 (RPR).] For purposes of this subsection, "cause" means violation by a lessee of a term of a lease. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §12 (RPR).]
14 M.R.S. § 4454 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4454
14 §4454. Recording necessary to validity; claim specified in writ; seizure on execution; lien
Status: in_force

No attachment of real estate on mesne process creates any lien thereon, unless the nature and amount of plaintiff's demand is set forth in the complaint or specifications therein or account annexed thereto, nor unless the officer making it within 5 days thereafter files in the office of the register of deeds in the county or district in which some part of said estate is situated an attested copy of so much of his return on the writ of attachment as relates to the attachment, with the value of the defendant's property which he is thereby commanded to attach, the names of the parties, the date of the writ of attachment and the court to which it is returnable. If the copy is not so filed within 5 days, the attachment takes effect from the time it is filed, although it is after service on the defendant, if before the time he is required to serve his answer. No seizure of real estate on execution, where there is no subsisting attachment thereof made in the action in which such execution issues, creates any lien thereon, unless the officer making it within 5 days thereafter files in the office of the register of deeds in the county or district in which some part of said estate is situated an attested copy of so much of his return on said execution as relates to the seizure, with the names of the parties, the date of the execution, the amount of the debt and costs named therein and the court by which it was issued. If the copy is not so filed, the seizure takes effect from the time it is filed. Such proceedings shall be had in such office by the register of deeds, as are prescribed in Title 33, chapter 11 . All recorded deeds take precedence over unrecorded attachments.
14 M.R.S. § 1252-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1252-A
14 §1252-A. Source list
Status: in_force

1. Lists used. The lists of licensed drivers, persons issued an identification card by the Secretary of State and any person who notifies the clerk of the court in the county of their residence and requests to be put on the source list of prospective jurors shall serve as the source for prospective jurors in each county. These lists may be supplemented with names from other lists specified by the Supreme Judicial Court. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §11 (NEW).]

2. Release to court. Notwithstanding any provision regarding confidentiality, whoever has custody, possession or control of the lists referred to in subsection 1 shall provide those lists to the court at cost for selection of prospective jurors at all reasonable times. All lists so supplied shall contain the name and address of each person on the lists. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §11 (NEW).]

3. Use of source list. The source list shall be used for the random selection of names or identifying numbers of prospective jurors to whom questionnaires shall be sent to determine their qualifications for jury service, as provided in sections 1253‑A and 1254‑A . When supplemental lists are used, selection of names shall be accomplished in a manner which accords the names on all lists an equal probability of selection. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §11 (NEW).]

4. Notice. At least once each year, the clerk shall give public notice to the residents of the county that their names may be placed on the source list of prospective jurors by notifying the clerk of the court. This notice may be made by newspapers, radio or any other method or combination of methods which will reasonably assure as broad a dissemination as possible to the residents of the county. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §11 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 12 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 12
14 §12. Discharge of co-obligor by judgment
Status: in_force

A judgment against one or more of several obligors, or against one or more of joint, or of joint and several obligors shall not discharge a co-obligor who was not a party to the proceeding wherein the judgment was rendered. [PL 1965, c. 351, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 8701 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 757 / Section 8701
14 §8701. Actions for bad faith assertion of patent infringement
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Demand letter" means a letter, an e-mail or other written communication asserting that a target has engaged in patent infringement. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] B. "Person" means a natural person, corporation, trust, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association or any other legal entity. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] C. "Target" means a person: (1) Who has received a demand letter; (2) Against whom a lawsuit has been filed alleging patent infringement; or (3) Whose customers have received a demand letter asserting that the person's product, service or technology has infringed a patent. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]

2. Prohibition. A person may not make a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against another person. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]

3. Civil action. A target may bring a civil action in Superior Court against a person who has made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against the target. In determining whether a person made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement: A. The court may consider the following factors as evidence that the person made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement: (1) The demand letter does not contain: (a) The patent number; (b) The name and address of the patent owner or owners and assignee or assignees, if any; or (c) Factual allegations concerning the specific areas in which the target's products, services or technology infringed the patent or are covered by the claims in the patent; (2) The demand letter does not contain the information described in subparagraph (1), the target requested the information and the person did not provide the information within a reasonable period of time; (3) Prior to sending the demand letter, the person failed to conduct an analysis comparing the claims in the patent to the target's products, services or technology or an analysis was done but does not identify specific areas in which the products, services or technology are covered by the claims in the patent; (4) The demand letter includes a demand for payment of a license fee or a response within an unreasonably short period of time; (5) The person offered to license the patent for an amount that is not based on a reasonable estimate of the value of the license; (6) The person knew or should have known that the assertion of patent infringement is meritless; (7) The assertion of patent infringement is deceptive; and (8) The person or a subsidiary or affiliate of the person previously filed or threatened to file a lawsuit based on the same or similar claim of patent infringement and: (a) Those threats or lawsuits lacked the information described in subparagraph (1); or (b) The person attempted to enforce the claim of patent infringement in litigation and a court found the claim to be meritless; and [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] B. The court may consider the following factors as evidence that the person did not make a bad faith assertion of patent infringement: (1) The demand letter contains the information described in paragraph A , subparagraph (1); (2) The demand letter does not contain the information described in paragraph A , subparagraph (1), the target requested the information and the person provided the information within a reasonable period of time; (3) The person engaged in a good faith effort to establish that the target infringed the patent and to negotiate an appropriate remedy; (4) The person made a substantial investment in the use of the patent or in the production or sale of a product or item covered by the patent; (5) The person is: (a) The inventor or joint inventor of the patent or, in the case of a patent filed by and awarded to an assignee of the original inventor or joint inventor, is the original assignee; or (b) An institution of higher education or a technology transfer organization whose primary purpose is to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed by an institution of higher education that is owned by or affiliated with an institution of higher education; and (6) The person demonstrated good faith business practices in previous efforts to enforce the patent or a substantially similar patent or successfully enforced the patent or a substantially similar patent through litigation. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]

4. Remedies. The court may award the following remedies to a target who prevails in an action brought pursuant to this section: A. Equitable relief; [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] B. Damages; [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] C. Costs and fees, including reasonable attorney's fees; and [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] D. Punitive damages in an amount equal to $50,000 or 3 times the total damages, costs and fees, whichever is greater. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).] [RR 2013, c. 2, §28 (COR).]

5. Action by Attorney General. The Attorney General may bring an action to enjoin a violation of this chapter. Any violation of this chapter is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]

6. Bond. When a target reasonably believes a person made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against the target, the target may file a motion with the court to require the person to post a bond. If the court finds the target has established a reasonable likelihood that the person made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement, the court shall require the person to post a bond in an amount equal to a good faith estimate of the target's costs to litigate the claim and amounts reasonably likely to be recovered under subsection 4 . The court shall hold a hearing if requested by either party. A bond ordered pursuant to this subsection may not exceed $250,000. The court may waive the bond requirement if it finds the person has available assets equal to the amount of the proposed bond or for other good cause shown. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]

7. Exemption. This section does not apply to a demand letter or assertion of patent infringement that includes a claim for relief arising under 35 United States Code, Section 271(e)(2) or 42 United States Code, Section 262. [PL 2013, c. 543, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6961 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6961
14 §6961. No abandonment; payment for improvements
Status: in_force

When the plaintiff does not elect so to abandon the premises, no writ of possession shall issue on his judgment, nor a new action be sustained for the land unless, within one year from the rendition thereof, he pays to the clerk or to such person as the court appoints for the use of the defendant, the sum assessed for the buildings and improvements, with interest thereon.
14 M.R.S. § 2908 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2908
14 §2908. No costs for trustee unless he appears
Status: in_force

When a person, summoned as trustee, does not come into court and declare that he had no property or credits of the principal in his hands when the summons was served and submit himself to examination on oath, the court shall not award costs in his favor although the action is voluntarily dismissed.
14 M.R.S. § 51 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 51
14 §51. Actions on insurance policies
Status: in_force

In all actions on insurance policies, a complaint on an account annexed, with an allegation that the plaintiff has complied with all conditions of the policy of insurance mentioned in the account annexed, shall be deemed sufficient. The account annexed shall state the number of the policy and the amount claimed as due, both as principal sum and interest, if any. The fact that the amount claimed in the account annexed varies from the amount found to be due the plaintiff shall not defeat the action unless there be a fraudulent claim of an excessive amount. If the defendant relies upon the breach of any condition of the policy by the plaintiff as a defense, it shall set the same up by answer, and all conditions, the breach of which is known to the defendant and not so pleaded, shall be deemed to have been complied with by the plaintiff. The plaintiff by a reply to the answer may set up any matter waiving or legally excusing his noncompliance with conditions as alleged by the defendant. Nothing in this section shall be construed as changing in any way the common law burden of proof as to such matters as are so put in issue under the pleadings. [PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §137 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6004 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 709 / Section 6004
14 §6004. Commencement of action
Status: in_force

1. Summons and complaint; service. The process of forcible entry and detainer must be commenced and service made in the same manner as other civil actions, except that if at least 3 good faith efforts on 3 different days have been made to serve the defendant, service may be accomplished by both mailing the summons and complaint by first-class mail to the defendant's last known address and leaving the summons and complaint at the defendant's last and usual place of abode. If service has been made by mailing and posting the summons and complaint, the plaintiff shall file with the court an affidavit demonstrating that compliance with the requirement of service has occurred. When the plaintiff lives out of the State and a recognizance is required of the plaintiff, any person may recognize in the plaintiff's behalf and is personally liable. [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).]

2. Form notice. If the defendant is a residential tenant, the plaintiff shall attach to the summons and complaint that is served on the defendant as provided in subsection 1 a one-page to 2-page form notice provided by the judicial branch in consultation with other resources and posted on the publicly accessible website of the judicial branch, written in language that is plain and readily understandable by the general public, that contains at a minimum the following: A. A description of the court procedure to be followed in the case, including a clear explanation of the process that must be followed before a tenant is required to vacate a rental unit; [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] B. A statement that failure to appear at any scheduled status conference or hearing may result in the entry of judgment in favor of the landlord, which would require the tenant to leave the rental unit; [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] C. A list of rental assistance programs available to residential tenants; [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] D. A list of resources that provide legal information and representation available to residential tenants; [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] E. A list of resources that provide housing counseling available to residential tenants; [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] F. A statement that either party may request, or the court may at any time refer the parties to, mediation on any issue; and [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] G. A court-approved form to request mediation. [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 316, §1 (NEW).]

3. Notice of counsel. If the court has been advised that an attorney is available to represent tenants in actions of forcible entry and detainer on a day that the court is planning to hold hearings on actions of forcible entry and detainer, the court shall announce the availability of that attorney prior to the commencement of proceedings for actions of forcible entry and detainer on that day. Failure of the court to comply with the requirements of this subsection is not grounds for dismissal of the action or to set aside or appeal any judgment entered against the tenant. [PL 2023, c. 379, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 652 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 652
14 §652. Verification of complaint
Status: in_force

Verification by the oath of a party for whose benefit the complaint sets forth that it is prosecuted is equivalent to such verification by the plaintiff.
14 M.R.S. § 7157 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 729 / Section 7157
14 §7157. Complaint not supported; property restored with damages
Status: in_force

If the complaint is not supported or is discontinued, the court shall order a restoration of the property, with costs. If the jury or court finds the seizure without probable cause, reasonable damages shall be ordered for the claimant.
14 M.R.S. § 1303 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1303
14 §1303. Objections not stated before trial waived
Status: in_force

If a party knows any objection to a juror in season to propose it before trial and omits to do so, he shall not afterwards make it, unless by leave of court for special reasons.
14 M.R.S. § 2712 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2712
14 §2712. Disclosure of property mortgaged to trustee
Status: in_force

When a trustee states in his disclosure that he had, at the time when the process was served on him, in his possession property not exempted by law from attachment, mortgaged, pledged or delivered to him by the principal defendant to secure the payment of money due to him and that the principal defendant has an existing right to redeem it by payment thereof, the court before which the action is pending shall order that on payment or tender of such money by the plaintiff to said trustee within such time as the court orders and while the right of redemption exists, he shall deliver the property to the officer serving the process, to be held and disposed of as if it had been attached on mesne process; and in default thereof, that he shall be charged as the trustee of the principal debtor. This order shall be entered on the records of the court.
14 M.R.S. § 2906 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2906
14 §2906. Costs when trustees out of county or reside out of State
Status: in_force

Persons summoned as trustees, residing out of the county where the action is pending, are not liable for any costs arising on the original process. If the person summoned as trustee is out of the State at the time the summons is served on him and appears within 20 days after his return, he shall be allowed his costs and charges as if he had appeared at the time otherwise required therefor.
14 M.R.S. § 2905 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2905
14 §2905. Trustees jointly liable for costs
Status: in_force

When several trustees, resident in the county where the action is pending, are summoned and neglect to appear, the judgment for costs shall be rendered against them jointly.
14 M.R.S. § 8117 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 741 / Section 8117
14 §8117. Prior claims
Status: repealed

This chapter does not apply to any claim against any governmental entity or employee arising before its effective date. Any such claim may be presented and enforced to the same extent and be subject to the same defenses and limitations on recovery as if this chapter had not been adopted and as though any statute repealed by this chapter had remained in effect, and as though the doctrines of sovereign, governmental and official immunity had remained in full force and effect. Nothing herein shall be construed as denying a governmental entity the right or authority to defend or settle any claim either against it or against any of its employees pending at the time of the effective date of this chapter. [PL 1977, c. 2, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 601 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 601
14 §601. Necessity for
Status: in_force

When the plaintiff, petitioner or complainant in any judicial proceeding is not an inhabitant of the State, every original summons, writ, petition or complaint shall, upon motion of an adverse party made within 20 days of service upon him, be indorsed by a sufficient inhabitant of the State, or security for costs furnished by deposit in court in such amount as the court shall direct. If pending such action, the plaintiff, petitioner or complainant removes from the State, such an indorser shall be procured or security for costs furnished on motion, but if one of such plaintiffs, petitioners or complainants is an inhabitant of the State, no indorser or security shall be required except by special order of the court. The name of an attorney of this State upon such summons, writ, petition or complaint will be deemed to have been placed there to meet the requirements of this section in the absence of any words used in connection therewith showing a different purpose.
14 M.R.S. § 6203-H — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6203-H
14 §6203-H. Option contract for purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property" means an agreement for the occupancy of purchaser-occupied residential real property of no more than 4 units that is the primary residence of the purchaser in which the purchaser is required to make an initial payment in excess of 4 times the periodic monthly payments required to occupy the premises and any agreement in which a person is induced to occupy such property as a primary residence by a promise or offer to grant ownership of the property to the person at a future date, at the option of the purchaser. "Option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property" includes an agreement under this paragraph for which the residential real property subject to the agreement is a mobile home as defined in Title 10, section 9091, subsection 1 . [PL 2025, c. 92, §1 (AMD).] B. "Purchaser" means a person who enters into an option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property and thereby obtains an option to purchase the real property. [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] C. "Vendor" means the owner of real property that is the subject of an option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property and who enters into an option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property for that real property. A vendor is a creditor under Title 9‑A, section 1‑301, subsection 17 , except that an individual who engages in no more than 2 transactions per year and not more than 4 in a 5-year period may not be considered a creditor for purposes of Title 9‑A, section 1‑301, subsection 17 . [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] [PL 2025, c. 92, §1 (AMD).]

2. Requirements. An option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property must: A. Be in writing; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] B. Include a statement that the vendor has inspected the property to be conveyed and certifies that the property is in compliance with sections 6021 and 6021‑A , subject to the provisions of section 6021, subsection 5 authorizing a waiver for a stated reduction in payment or other specified fair consideration, and, if applicable, that the property is in compliance with Title 10, section 9099 , subject to the provisions of Title 10, section 9099, subsection 4 authorizing a waiver for a stated reduction in payment or other specified fair consideration; [PL 2025, c. 92, §2 (AMD).] C. Identify the party required to maintain the premises in compliance with sections 6021 and 6021‑A and, if applicable, Title 10, section 9099 ; [PL 2025, c. 92, §3 (AMD).] D. State the amount of the initial payment to secure the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] E. State the amount of the monthly payment due; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] F. State the date by which the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property must be exercised; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] G. State the amount due to exercise the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] H. Identify the party responsible to make payments for any real property taxes and homeowner's insurance; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] I. State whether the amounts paid for rent, property taxes or homeowner's insurance will be deducted from the amount due to exercise the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] J. Include a termination clause that recites the provisions set forth in subsection 4 ; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] K. Include a clear and conspicuous provision above the place for the signature of the purchaser that acknowledges receipt by the purchaser of a copy of the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property; and [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] L. Include language that in the event the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property is not exercised, the vendor shall return to the purchaser any amounts paid by the purchaser to the vendor at the commencement of the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property in excess of the lesser of: (1) Four times the monthly rent; and (2) One percent of the contract price for the purchase of the real property. [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] [PL 2025, c. 92, §§2, 3 (AMD).]

3. Recordation. Within 20 days after the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property has been signed by both the vendor and the purchaser, the vendor shall cause a copy of the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property or a memorandum of the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property to be recorded at the purchaser's expense in the registry of deeds in the county where the real property sold under the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property is located. If a memorandum of the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property is recorded, it must be entitled "Memorandum of a Land Installment Contract" and must at a minimum contain the names of the parties, the signatures of the parties, a description of the real property and the applicable time periods. A person other than a vendor and purchaser may rely on the recorded materials in determining whether the requirements of this subsection have been met. [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).]

4. Termination. The following provisions govern the termination of an option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property. A. An option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property may be terminated only pursuant to the eviction process set forth chapter 709 if: (1) The vendor has entered into not more than one contract in any calendar year or 2 contracts in any 5-year period; (2) The option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property does not require an initial payment of more than 4 times the monthly rent charged for the real property; (3) The option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property requires the vendor to maintain the real property pursuant to the provisions of section 6021 , unless a waiver pursuant to the provisions of section 6021, subsection 5 has been entered into, the provisions of section 6021‑A and, if applicable, the provisions of Title 10, section 9099 , unless a waiver pursuant to Title 10, section 9099, subsection 4 has been entered into; and (4) The vendor has otherwise complied with the requirements of this section. [PL 2025, c. 92, §4 (AMD).] B. If paragraph A does not apply, an option contact for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property may be terminated only pursuant to the foreclosure process set forth in section 6203‑F . [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] [PL 2025, c. 92, §4 (AMD).]

5. Violations. A violation of this section is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. In addition to any other rights and remedies a purchaser may have in the law, upon a finding that a violation of this section by a vendor has occurred, a court shall find one or more of the following: A. The purchaser is entitled to recover all actual damages or $1,000, whichever is greater; [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] B. The purchaser may rescind the option contract for the purchase of real property or rent-to-own real property and recover all payments made on the contract; and [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] C. The purchaser is entitled to recover the aggregate amount of costs, expenses and attorney's fees determined by the court to have reasonably been incurred on the purchaser's behalf in connection with the prosecution or defense of the matter. [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 350, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 1256 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1256
14 §1256. New jurors
Status: in_force

If for any reason a grand jury or a traverse jury is dismissed before completing its work, the clerk of courts shall proceed to draw and notify new jurors in accordance with section 1255-A . [PL 2005, c. 397, Pt. A, §10 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6657 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 723 / Section 6657
14 §6657. Proceedings in court
Status: in_force

After all the defendants have been served with process or notified as provided in section 6656 , and after the appointment of an agent, guardian ad litem or next friend, if such appointment has been made, the court may proceed as though all the defendants had been actually served with process. Such action shall be a proceeding in rem against the land, and a decree establishing or declaring the validity, nature or extent of the plaintiff's title may be entered, and shall operate directly on the land and shall have the force of a release made by or on behalf of all defendants of all claims inconsistent with the title established or declared thereby. This section and sections 6655 and 6656 shall not prevent the court from exercising jurisdiction in personam against the defendants who have been actually served with process and who are personally amenable to its decrees.
14 M.R.S. § 1352 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1352
14 §1352. Verdict not affected by irregularities
Status: in_force

No irregularity in the venires or drawing, summoning, returning or impaneling jurors is sufficient to set aside a verdict, unless the party objecting was injured by the irregularity or unless the objection was made before the return of the verdict.
14 M.R.S. § 3120 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502 / Section 3120
14 §3120. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an efficient procedure for the enforcement of money judgments. It is not an exclusive procedure and may be utilized with any other available procedure. [PL 1987, c. 184, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 738 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 738
14 §738. Dismissal of cause of action in whole or in part
Status: in_force

1. Dismissal with prejudice. In ruling on a motion under section 734 , the court shall dismiss with prejudice a cause of action, or part of a cause of action, if: A. The moving party establishes under section 733, subsection 2 that this Act applies; [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).] B. The responding party fails to establish under section 733, subsection 3 that this Act does not apply; and [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).] C. Either: (1) The responding party fails to establish a prima facie case as to each essential element of the cause of action; or (2) The moving party establishes that: (a) The responding party failed to state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted; or (b) There is no genuine issue as to any material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law on the cause of action or part of the cause of action. [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).] [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).]

2. Dismissal without prejudice; right to costs, attorney's fees and expenses. A voluntary dismissal without prejudice of a responding party's cause of action, or part of a cause of action, that is the subject of a motion under section 734 does not affect a moving party's right to obtain a ruling on the motion and seek costs, attorney's fees and expenses under section 740 . [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).]

3. Dismissal with prejudice; prevailed on motion. A voluntary dismissal with prejudice of a responding party's cause of action, or part of a cause of action, that is the subject of a motion under section 734 establishes for the purpose of section 740 that the moving party prevailed on the motion. [PL 2023, c. 626, §2 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 626, §§3, 4, 7 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 7359 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 735 / Section 7359
14 §7359. Production of plaintiff; release of defendant
Status: in_force

If the defendant, after the return of eloignment, produces the body of the plaintiff in court, the court shall deliver him from imprisonment, upon his giving the defendant such bond as hereinbefore in this chapter directed to be taken by the officer when the plaintiff is delivered by him; and for want thereof, he shall be committed to abide the judgment on the writ for replevying the plaintiff; and, in either case, the action shall be tried as aforesaid.
14 M.R.S. § 4659 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 4659
14 §4659. Actions and executions; when directed into other counties
Status: in_force

In actions against bail, indorsers for costs, and proceedings after judgment against executors or administrators, and in all actions against 2 or more defendants before a Judge of a District Court, where the defendant or trustee resides out of the county where the proceedings are had, the judge may direct the summons, writ or execution to any proper officer of the county where such defendant or trustee resides, who shall charge fees of travel from the place of his residence to the place of service only, and postage paid by him.
14 M.R.S. § 5961 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 707 / Section 5961
14 §5961. Jury trial
Status: in_force

When a proceeding under this chapter involves the determination of an issue of fact, such issue may be tried and determined in the same manner as issues of fact are tried and determined in other civil actions in the court in which the proceeding is pending.
14 M.R.S. § 6110 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6110
14 §6110. Tender to guardian of mortgagee; discharge
Status: in_force

When the mortgagee or person holding under him is under guardianship, a tender may be made to the guardian and he shall receive the sum due on the mortgage; and upon receiving it, or on performance of such other condition as the case requires, he shall execute a discharge of the mortgage.
14 M.R.S. § 6513 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6513
14 §6513. Notice; majority report
Status: in_force

The commissioners shall give reasonable notice of the time and place for making partition to all concerned who are known and within the State. They must all be present at the performance of their duties but the report of a majority is valid.
14 M.R.S. § 4455 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4455
14 §4455. Action ineffectual against nonparty until attachment recorded
Status: in_force

No action in which the title to real estate is involved is effectual against any person not a party thereto or having actual notice thereof until either:

1. Attachment made and recorded. An attachment of such real estate is duly made and recorded in the registry of deeds, in and for the county or district in which such real estate is situated, in the same manner as attachments of real estate in other actions are now recorded; or

2. Certificate recorded. A certificate setting forth the names of the parties, the date of the complaint and the filing thereof and a description of the real estate in litigation as described in said complaint, duly certified by the clerk of courts in and for the county where said complaint is pending is recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or district in which such real estate is situated.
14 M.R.S. § 6453 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 717 / Section 6453
14 §6453. Notice to Attorney General
Status: in_force

Notice of said complaint shall be given to the Attorney General by causing an attested copy of the same to be served upon him by an officer qualified to serve civil process, and the Attorney General may appear and be heard thereon. [PL 1971, c. 544, §48 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 3579 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 504 / Section 3579
14 §3579. Defenses, liability and protection of transferee
Status: in_force

1. Transfer or obligation not voidable. A transfer or obligation is not voidable under section 3575, subsection 1, paragraph A , against a person who took in good faith and for a reasonably equivalent value or against any subsequent transferee or obligee. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

2. Judgment. Except as otherwise provided in this section, to the extent a transfer is voidable in an action by a creditor under section 3578, subsection 1, paragraph A , the creditor may recover judgment for the value of the asset transferred, as adjusted under subsection 3 , or the amount necessary to satisfy the creditor's claim, whichever is less. The judgment may be entered against: A. The first transferee of the asset or the person for whose benefit the transfer was made; or [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. Any subsequent transferee other than a good-faith transferee or obligee who took for value or from any subsequent transferee or obligee. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

3. Value of asset. If the judgment under subsection 2 is based upon the value of the asset transferred, the judgment must be for an amount equal to the value of the asset at the time of the transfer, subject to adjustment as the equities may require. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

4. Rights of good-faith transferee or obligee. Notwithstanding voidability of a transfer or an obligation under this Act, a good-faith transferee or obligee is entitled, to the extent of the value given the debtor for the transfer or obligation to: A. A lien on or a right to retain any interest in the asset transferred; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. Enforcement of any obligation incurred; or [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] C. A reduction in the amount of the liability on the judgment. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

5. Defenses; lease termination and foreclosure of security interest. A transfer is not voidable under section 3575, subsection 1, paragraph B , or section 3576, subsection 1 , if the transfer results from: A. Termination of a lease upon default by the debtor when the termination is pursuant to the terms of the lease and applicable law; or [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. Enforcement of a security interest in compliance with the Uniform Commercial Code, Title 11, Article 9‑A . [PL 1999, c. 699, Pt. D, §13 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 699, Pt. D, §30 (AFF).] [PL 1999, c. 699, Pt. D, §13 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 699, Pt. D, §30 (AFF).]

6. Defenses; insider transfers. A transfer is not voidable under section 3576, subsection 2 : A. To the extent the insider gave new value to or for the benefit of the debtor after the transfer was made unless the new value was secured by a valid lien; [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] B. If made in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the insider; or [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] C. If made pursuant to a good-faith effort to rehabilitate the debtor and the transfer secured present value given for that purpose as well as an antecedent debt of the debtor. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).] [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 5527 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 6 / Chapter 609 / Section 5527
14 §5527. Designation of unknown person; restraining person
Status: in_force

The person having custody of the prisoner may be designated by the name of his office, if he has any, or by his own name; or if both are unknown or uncertain, he may be described by an assumed name. Anyone served with the writ shall be deemed the person thereby intended.
14 M.R.S. § 6515 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6515
14 §6515. Parcel of greater value than share
Status: in_force

When any parcel of the estate to be divided is of greater value than either party's share and cannot be divided without great inconvenience, it may be assigned to one party by his paying the sum of money awarded to the parties who have less than their shares, but the report shall not be accepted until the sums so awarded are paid or secured to the satisfaction of the parties entitled thereto.
14 M.R.S. § 2253 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2253
14 §2253. Redemption of property by creditor seizing right; repayment from proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

When a creditor has seized on execution a right that would expire within 60 days, to redeem from a mortgage, sale or levy on execution, he may pay or tender to the person entitled thereto the amount which the debtor would have to pay to redeem the same. The officer selling such right shall first pay from the proceeds of sale the amount so paid by the creditor with interest, unless the debtor has paid it. The residue, if any, shall be applied in satisfaction of the execution.
14 M.R.S. § 7561 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 739 / Section 7561
14 §7561. Liability of executors or administrators
Status: in_force

If such executor or administrator, being heir or devisee, commits such trespass or waste, on proof thereof before the judge of probate, he shall be liable to the same extent as the heirs or devisees. In both cases, the damages, when recovered by the executor or administrator or adjudged against him by the judge of probate, shall be accounted for in the administration account.
14 M.R.S. § 6802 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6802
14 §6802. Defendant ousting plaintiff deemed disseizor
Status: in_force

If the person in possession has actually ousted the plaintiff or withheld the possession, he may, at the plaintiff's election, be considered a disseizor for the purpose of trying the right, although he claims an estate therein less than a freehold.
14 M.R.S. § 1403 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 307 / Section 1403
14 §1403. Admission of evidence
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any court rule to the contrary, when, after an event, measures are taken that, if taken previously, would have made the event less likely to occur, evidence of the subsequent measures is not admissible to prove negligence or culpable conduct in connection with the event. This section does not require the exclusion of evidence of subsequent measures when offered for another purpose, such as proving ownership, control or feasibility of precautionary measures, if controverted, or impeachment. [PL 1995, c. 576, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 3573 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 504 / Section 3573
14 §3573. Insolvency
Status: in_force

1. Debts greater than assets. A debtor is insolvent if the sum of the debtor's debts is greater than all of the debtor's assets at a fair valuation. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

2. Presumption of insolvency. A debtor who is generally not paying his debts as they become due is presumed to be insolvent. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

3. Partnership insolvency. A partnership is insolvent under subsection 1 if the sum of the partnership's debts is greater than the aggregate of all of the partnership's assets at a fair valuation, and the sum of the excess of the value of each general partner's nonpartnership assets over the partner's nonpartnership debts. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

4. Assets; exclusion. Assets under this section do not include property that has been transferred, concealed or removed with intent to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or that has been transferred in a manner making the transfer voidable under this Act. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]

5. Debts. Debts under this section do not include an obligation to the extent it is secured by a valid lien on property of the debtor not included as an asset. [PL 1985, c. 641, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 1257 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1257
14 §1257. Regional juries
Status: in_force

The Supreme Judicial Court is authorized to prescribe by rule or order the selection of juries from regions consisting of a single county or a reasonably compact group of counties for trials of criminal prosecutions or civil actions in the Superior Court. If the Supreme Judicial Court shall by rule provide for such regions for the purpose of selection of juries, this chapter shall be applied to such regions and to such regional juries and the word "counties" where it appears in this chapter shall be read to mean "region." [PL 1975, c. 337, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2610 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2610
14 §2610. Nonresident adjudged trustee
Status: in_force

A person summoned as trustee may be adjudged trustee by the court although he was not then and never had been an inhabitant of the State. The action may be brought in the county in which either the plaintiff or principal defendant resides.
14 M.R.S. § 171 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 171
14 §171. Defense of premises
Status: in_force

It is a defense to a civil claim resulting from the use of force that the person was or would have been justified in using such force under Title 17‑A, section 104 . [PL 2007, c. 315, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6705 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6705
14 §6705. Election by plaintiff to abandon
Status: in_force

Judgment on such verdict shall not be entered for 10 days or such further time as the court may order, during which time the plaintiff may make his election on record to abandon the premises to the defendant at the value estimated by the jury and file with the clerk for the use of the defendant a bond in the penal sum of 3 times the estimated value of the premises, with sureties approved by the court, conditioned to refund such estimated value, with interest, to the defendant, his heirs or assigns, if they are evicted from the land within 20 years by a title better than that of the plaintiff. If such election is made and bond filed, judgment shall be rendered against the defendant for the sum so estimated by the jury, and costs.
14 M.R.S. § 6653 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 723 / Section 6653
14 §6653. Complaint; grantee as party
Status: in_force

An action under either section 6651 or 6652 shall be brought in the county or district respectively in which the real estate lies. Service in such action shall be made as in other actions on all supposed known claimants residing either in the State or outside the State, and notice to persons who are unascertained, not in being or unknown shall be given by publication as in other actions where publication is required, unless the court on motion permits posting in such public places as the court may direct in lieu of all or part of the publication ordinarily required. Upon the filing of the complaint the clerk of courts in the county, or the clerk of the District Court in the district respectively where such proceedings are pending shall file a certificate in the registry of deeds in the county or district where said land is situated, setting forth the names of the parties, the date of the complaint and the filing thereof and the description of the real estate as given in the complaint, which said certificate shall be recorded by the register of deeds, who shall receive therefor the same fee as for recording a deed. The action shall not be abated by the death of any party thereto, nor by the conveyance of the premises by deed recorded after said certificate is recorded. The grantee of any defendant named or described in the complaint, or any person claiming under such grantee, may voluntarily appear and become a party, and make any defense that would have been open to the defendant under whom he claims. If any person who becomes such grantee by conveyance recorded after the filing of the certificate does not voluntarily appear, no such conveyance by the defendant shall be given in evidence, either in the proceedings on the complaint or in any action brought thereunder to try title to the premises as provided in section 6654 , and the issue shall be determined as though no such conveyance were made. [PL 1971, c. 117, §4 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6403 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 715 / Section 6403
14 §6403. Duties of Governor
Status: in_force

As used in Article VII, subsection 3 , of the Interpleader Compact, the phrase "executive head" shall mean the Governor of this State. In the event that the Governor shall take any action pursuant to Article VII, subsection 3 , of such Interpleader Compact, he shall promptly notify the Secretary of State and shall deposit with him copies of any and all official communications and documents relating to such action. The Governor shall take appropriate action pursuant to Article VII, subsection 3 , of the Interpleader Compact so as not to become party thereto with any state not recognized by the United States of America or with any state the features of whose legal system make the equitable operation of said compact impracticable.
14 M.R.S. § 7557 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 739 / Section 7557
14 §7557. Notices; injury to signboards
Status: in_force

Notices referred to in section 7556 shall be given by erecting and maintaining signboards at least one foot square in at least 2 conspicuous places on the premises, one of them near one of the usual landing places on said island, reading as follows: "All persons are forbidden to shoot or hunt on this island", with the name of the owner, occupant or lessee; or such notice may be given verbally or in writing by the owner, occupant or lessee of the island to any person and shall be binding on the person so notified, whether the signboards herein named are erected and maintained or not. Whoever tears down or in any way defaces or injures any such signboard forfeits $100, to be recovered by the owner, occupant or lessee of such island in a civil action.
14 M.R.S. § 1105 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 301 / Section 1105
14 §1105. Charge to jury
Status: in_force

During a jury trial the presiding justice shall rule and charge the jury, orally or in writing, upon all matters of law arising in the case but shall not, during the trial, including the charge, express an opinion upon issues of fact arising in the case, and such an expression of opinion is sufficient cause for a new trial if either party aggrieved thereby and interested desires it, and the same shall be ordered accordingly by the law court on appeal in a civil or criminal case. [PL 1965, c. 356, §11 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 303 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 13 / Section 303
14 §303. Action for loss of services
Status: in_force

The parents of a minor child jointly may maintain an action for loss of the services or earnings of that child when that loss is caused by the negligent or wrongful act of another. If one parent refuses to sue, the other may sue alone. This section does not limit, amend, supersede or affect former Title 39 , the Workers' Compensation Act or Title 39‑A, Part 1 , the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992. [PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. C, §1 (NEW); PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. E, §2 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 1956 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 1956
14 §1956. Deed given to assignee; right sold; remedy of purchaser
Status: in_force

When, during the existence of an attachment, a deed has been given to an assignee, the right of the debtor should be sold on the execution. When the right has been sold, and there has been no previous conveyance to the debtor, the purchaser has the same remedies in his own name against the obligor or contractor as the debtor would have had, by an action to recover damages for nonfulfillment, or to compel a specific performance, and when assignment before attachment is alleged, the assignee may be made a party. Upon refusal of the obligor or contractor, on request of the purchaser, to give correct information of the amount due or condition remaining to be performed, the purchaser may maintain his action without previous payment, performance or tender. Upon a hearing, the court may grant and decree such relief, payment or performance, as is equitable.
14 M.R.S. § 2623 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2623
14 §2623. Trustee process after commitment of debtor
Status: in_force

When a judgment creditor has caused the debtor to be committed on execution and afterwards discovers goods, effects or credits of the debtor not attachable by ordinary process of law, he may have the benefit of the trustee process like any other creditor if, within 7 days after service of the process, he discharges the debtor from prison by a written direction to the jailer stating the reason therefor, but such discharge shall not annul or affect the judgment.
14 M.R.S. § 6306 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6306
14 §6306. -- payment to clerk of court
Status: in_force

When a mortgagee or person claiming under a mortgagee residing out of the State, or whose residence is unknown to the party entitled to redeem, has commenced proceedings in accordance with this chapter, or when such a mortgagee or claimant having no tenant, agent or attorney in possession on whom service can be made has commenced proceedings in accordance with this chapter, in either case the party entitled to redeem may bring the civil action, as prescribed in section 6301 , and pay at the same time to the clerk of the court and sum due, which payment has the same effect as a tender before the action. The court shall order such a notice to be given of the pendency of the action, as it judges proper. [PL 2007, c. 391, §8 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 704-A — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 704-A
14 §704-A. Persons subject to jurisdiction
Status: in_force

1. Declaration of purpose. It is declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the public interest demands that the State provide its citizens with an effective means of redress against nonresident persons who, through certain significant minimal contacts with this State, incur obligations to citizens entitled to the state's protection. This legislative action is deemed necessary because of technological progress which has substantially increased the flow of commerce between the several states resulting in increased interaction between persons of this State and persons of other states. This section, to insure maximum protection to citizens of this State, shall be applied so as to assert jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the fullest extent permitted by the due process clause of the United States Constitution, 14th amendment. [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).]

2. Causes of action. Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this State, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts hereinafter enumerated in this section, thereby submits such person, and, if an individual, his personal representative, to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State as to any cause of action arising from the doing of any of such acts: A. The transaction of any business within this State; [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] B. Doing or causing a tortious act to be done, or causing the consequences of a tortious act to occur within this State; [PL 1977, c. 696, §162 (AMD).] C. The ownership, use or possession of any real estate situated in this State; [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] D. Contracting to insure any person, property or risk located within this State at the time of contracting; [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] E. Conception resulting in parentage within the meaning of Title 19‑A, chapter 61 ; [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. C, §2 (AMD); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).] F. Contracting to supply services or things within this State; [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] G. Maintaining a domicile in this State while subject to a marital or family relationship out of which arises a claim for divorce, alimony, separate maintenance, property settlement, child support or child custody; or the commission in this State of any act giving rise to such a claim; or [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] H. Acting as a director, manager, trustee or other officer of a corporation incorporated under the laws of, or having its principal place of business within, this State. [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).] I. Maintain any other relation to the State or to persons or property which affords a basis for the exercise of jurisdiction by the courts of this State consistent with the Constitution of the United States. [PL 1977, c. 696, §163 (AMD).] [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. C, §2 (AMD); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]

3. Personal service. Service of process upon any person who is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, as provided in this section, may be made by personally serving the summons upon the defendant outside this State, with the same force and effect as though summons had been personally served within this State. [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).]

4. Jurisdiction based upon this section. Only causes of action arising from acts enumerated herein may be asserted against a defendant in an action in which jurisdiction over him is based upon this section. [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).]

5. Other service not affected. Nothing contained in this section limits or affects the right to serve any process in any other manner now or hereafter provided by law. [PL 1975, c. 770, §80 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 4852 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 4852
14 §4852. Mode of sale; possession
Status: in_force

In the sale of such franchise, whoever will pay and satisfy such execution, all fees and incidental expenses, in consideration of being entitled to receive to his own use all such toll as the corporation is entitled to receive, for the shortest period of time, is the highest bidder and the purchaser for such period; and immediately after such sale, the officer shall deliver to him possession of the tollhouses and gates, in whatever county situated, and state his doings therein in his return.
14 M.R.S. § 3 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 3
14 §3. Guardian of incompetent party; compensation
Status: in_force

A guardian appointed to prosecute or defend an action for an incompetent party is entitled to a reasonable compensation and is not liable for costs.
14 M.R.S. § 8909 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 761 / Section 8909
14 §8909. Relationship to Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act
Status: in_force

1. Application of chapter 759 to this Act. This Act supplements the Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act and that Act, other than section 8806 , applies to a registration under this Act. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]

2. Options for recognition of Canadian judgment. A person may seek recognition of a Canadian judgment described in section 8903 either: A. By registration under this Act; or [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).] B. Under section 8806 . [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]

3. Recognition under both Acts prohibited. Subject to subsection 4 , a person may not seek recognition in this State of the same judgment or part of a judgment described in section 8903, subsection 2 or 3 with regard to the same person under both this Act and the Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]

4. Vacated registration. If the court grants a motion to vacate a registration solely on a ground under section 8907, subsection 2, paragraph B , the person seeking registration may: A. If the defect in the registration can be cured, file a new registration under this Act; or [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).] B. Seek recognition of the judgment under the Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6030-K — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710 / Section 6030-K
14 §6030-K. Model residential lease
Status: in_force

1. Model residential lease. By December 1, 2025, the Attorney General shall create and post on the Attorney General's publicly accessible website a model lease for residential property that complies with current law, including any disclosure and any document required to be attached to a residential lease. The Attorney General shall update the model lease biennially and post the revised model lease no later than December 1st of every odd-numbered year. [PL 2025, c. 426, §1 (NEW).]

2. Implementation. The Attorney General shall implement this section within existing resources. [PL 2025, c. 426, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 812-B — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 812-B
14 §812-B. Recording requirements
Status: in_force

To satisfy the recording provisions of sections 812 and 812‑A , with respect to land in the unorganized territory, the notice shall describe the land specifically or by reference to source of title, so as to identify it, and shall not be in the form of a reference to whatever land the person may own in the respective county or township. Such notice shall expire after 10 years but new notices, each effective for a 10-year period, may be so recorded at any time. [PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §138 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 4612 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4612
14 §4612. Costs
Status: in_force

The party finally prevailing in the action shall recover the costs of these proceedings, taxed as costs of court in other cases and certified by the court, and execution shall issue therefor.
14 M.R.S. § 4201 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4201
14 §4201. Attached goods not assets of deceased officer's estate
Status: in_force

Personal property, attached by an officer and in his possession, and his claim for damages when it is taken from him remain subject to such attachment in case of his death, as if he were alive, and are not assets belonging to his estate.
14 M.R.S. § 2613 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2613
14 §2613. Complaint considered true
Status: in_force

If the plaintiff proceeds no further, the complaint shall be considered true.
14 M.R.S. § 7483 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 738 / Section 7483
14 §7483. Venue
Status: in_force

A small claim shall be brought in the division of the District Court where the transaction occurred, where the defendant resides, where the defendant has a place of business or, if the defendant is a corporation or partnership, where its registered agent resides. [PL 1981, c. 667, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2005 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2005
14 §2005. Officer's return, contents
Status: in_force

The officer, in his return on the execution, shall state substantially the time when the land was taken on execution; how the appraisers were appointed; that they were duly sworn; that they appraised and set off the premises, after viewing the same, at the price specified; that he delivered seizin and possession to the creditor or his attorney, or assigned the same to him as in case of remainder or other incorporeal estate; and the description of the premises by himself or by reference to the return of the appraisers. If the appraisers' return is signed by 2 only, he must state whether all were present and acted. He may refer to and adopt, in his return, the return of the appraisers, and the subsequent proceedings will be valid though made after the return day of the execution or after the removal or disability of the officer.
14 M.R.S. § 6321 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6321
14 §6321. Commencement of foreclosure by civil action
Status: in_force

After breach of condition in a mortgage of first priority, the mortgagee or any person claiming under the mortgagee may proceed for the purpose of foreclosure by a civil action against all parties in interest in either the Superior Court or the District Court in the division in which the mortgaged premises or any part of the mortgaged premises is located, regardless of the amount of the mortgage claim. [PL 2007, c. 391, §9 (AMD).]

After breach of condition of any mortgage other than one of the first priority, the mortgagee or any person claiming under the mortgagee may proceed for the purpose of foreclosure by a civil action against all parties in interest, except for parties in interest having a superior priority to the foreclosing mortgagee, in either the Superior Court or the District Court in the division in which the mortgaged premises or any part of the mortgaged premises is located. Parties in interest having a superior priority may not be joined nor will their interests be affected by the proceedings, but the resulting sale under section 6323 is of the defendant or mortgagor's equity of redemption only. The plaintiff shall notify the priority parties in interest of the action by sending a copy of the complaint to the parties in interest by certified mail. [PL 2007, c. 391, §9 (AMD).]

The foreclosure must be commenced in accordance with the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, and the mortgagee shall within 60 days of commencing the foreclosure also record a copy of the complaint or a clerk's certificate of the filing of the complaint in each registry of deeds in which the mortgage deed is or by law ought to be recorded and such a recording thereafter constitutes record notice of commencement of foreclosure. The mortgagee shall further certify and provide evidence that all steps mandated by law to provide notice to the mortgagor pursuant to section 6111 were strictly performed. In order to state a claim for foreclosure upon which relief can be granted, the complaint must contain a certification of proof of ownership of the mortgage note. The mortgagee shall certify proof of ownership of the mortgage note and produce evidence of the mortgage note, mortgage and all assignments and endorsements of the mortgage note and mortgage. The complaint must allege with specificity the plaintiff's claim by mortgage on such real estate, describe the mortgaged premises intelligibly, including the street address of the mortgaged premises, if any, which must be prominently stated on the first page of the complaint, state the book and page number of the mortgage, if any, state the existence of public utility easements, if any, that were recorded subsequent to the mortgage and prior to the commencement of the foreclosure proceeding and without mortgagee consent, state the amount due on the mortgage, state the condition broken and by reason of such breach demand a foreclosure and sale. If a clerk's certificate of the filing of the complaint is presented for recording pursuant to this section, the clerk’s certificate must bear the title "Clerk's Certificate of Foreclosure" and prominently state, immediately after the title, the street address of the mortgaged premises, if any, and the book and page number of the mortgage, if any. Service of process on all parties in interest and all proceedings must be in accordance with the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure. "Parties in interest" includes mortgagors, holders of fee interest, mortgagees, lessees pursuant to recorded leases or memoranda thereof, lienors and attaching creditors all as reflected by the indices in the registry of deeds and the documents referred to therein affecting the mortgaged premises, through the time of the recording of the complaint or the clerk's certificate. Failure to join any party in interest does not invalidate the action nor any subsequent proceedings as to those joined. Failure of the mortgagee to join, as a party in interest, the holder of any public utility easement recorded subsequent to the mortgage and prior to commencement of foreclosure proceedings is deemed consent by the mortgagee to that easement. Any other party having a claim to the real estate whose claim is not recorded in the registry of deeds as of the time of recording of the copy of the complaint or the clerk's certificate need not be joined in the foreclosure action, and any such party has no claim against the real estate after completion of the foreclosure sale, except that any such party may move to intervene in the action for the purpose of being added as a party in interest at any time prior to the entry of judgment. Within 10 days of submitting the complaint for filing with the court, the mortgagee shall provide a copy of the complaint or of the clerk's certificate as submitted to the court that prominently states, immediately after the title, the street address of the mortgaged premises, if any, and the book and page number of the mortgage, if any, to the municipal tax assessor of the municipality in which the property is located and, if the mortgaged premises is manufactured housing as defined in Title 10, section 9002, subsection 7 , to the owner of any land leased by the mortgagor. The failure to provide the notice required by this section does not affect the validity of the foreclosure sale. [PL 2015, c. 229, §1 (AMD).]

For purposes of this section, "public utility easements" means any easements held by public utilities, as defined in Title 35‑A, section 102 ; sewer districts, as defined in Title 38, section 1032, subsection 3 or 4 ; or sanitary districts, as formed under Title 38, chapter 11 . [PL 2013, c. 555, §2 (AMD).]

The acceptance, before the expiration of the right of redemption and after the commencement of foreclosure proceedings of any mortgage of real property, of anything of value to be applied on or to the mortgage indebtedness by the mortgagee or any person holding under the mortgagee constitutes a waiver of the foreclosure unless an agreement to the contrary in writing is signed by the person from whom the payment is accepted or unless the bank returns the payment to the mortgagor within 10 days of receipt. The receipt of income from the mortgaged premises by the mortgagee or the mortgagee's assigns while in possession of the premises does not constitute a waiver of the foreclosure proceedings of the mortgage on the premises. [PL 2007, c. 391, §9 (NEW).]

The mortgagee and the mortgagor may enter into an agreement to allow the mortgagor to bring the mortgage payments up to date with the foreclosure process being stayed as long as the mortgagor makes payments according to the agreement. If the mortgagor does not make payments according to the agreement, the mortgagee may, after notice to the mortgagor, resume the foreclosure process at the point at which it was stayed. [PL 2007, c. 391, §9 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 5938 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 706 / Section 5938
14 §5938. Vacating an award
Status: in_force

1. Vacating award. Upon application of a party, the court shall vacate an award where: A. The award was procured by corruption, fraud or other undue means; [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] B. There was evident partiality by an arbitrator appointed as a neutral or corruption in any of the arbitrators or misconduct prejudicing the rights of any party; [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] C. The arbitrators exceeded their powers; [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] D. The arbitrators refused to postpone the hearing upon sufficient cause being shown therefor or refused to hear evidence material to the controversy or otherwise so conducted the hearing, contrary to the provisions of section 5931 , as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party; [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] E. There was no arbitration agreement and the issue was not adversely determined in proceedings under section 5928 and the party did not participate in the arbitration hearing without raising the objection; or [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] F. The award was not made within the time fixed therefor by the agreement or, if not so fixed, within such time as the court has ordered, and the party has not waived the objection. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).] But the fact that the relief was such that it could not or would not be granted by a court of law or equity is not ground for vacating or refusing to confirm the award. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]

2. Application. An application under this section shall be made within 90 days after delivery of a copy of the award to the applicant, except that, if predicated upon corruption, fraud or other undue means, it shall be made within 90 days after such grounds are known or should have been known. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]

3. Rehearing. In vacating the award on grounds other than stated in paragraph E of subsection 1 the court may order a rehearing before new arbitrators chosen as provided in the agreement, or in the absence thereof, by the court in accordance with section 5929 , or, if the award is vacated on grounds set forth in paragraphs C and D of subsection 1 the court may order a rehearing before the arbitrators who made the award or their successors appointed in accordance with section 5929 . The time within which the agreement requires the award to be made is applicable to the rehearing and commences from the date of the order. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]

4. Confirmation of award. If the application to vacate is denied and no motion to modify or correct the award is pending, the court shall confirm the award. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6309 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6309
14 §6309. Limitation of civil action
Status: in_force

No civil action shall be brought for redemption of mortgaged premises, founded on a tender of payment or performance of the condition made before commencement of the action, unless within one year after such tender.
14 M.R.S. § 2020 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2020
14 §2020. Judgment assignee may bring action if estate does not pass by levy
Status: in_force

When a judgment has been assigned for a valuable consideration, and bona fide, in writing, and a levy of an execution issued on such judgment has been made, and the estate does not pass by the levy, and the creditor dies after the levy, the assignee may bring an action in the court issuing the execution, setting forth the facts aforesaid therein, and requiring the debtor to show cause why another execution should not issue on the same judgment, in the name and for the benefit of said assignee. If the debtor, after being duly summoned, does not show sufficient cause why it should not be done, the levy may be set aside; and the court from which said execution issued may order and issue another execution on the same judgment, for the amount of the original debt, interest and costs, in the name and for the benefit of such plaintiff, and against such debtor and his property, in the usual form, with necessary charges.
14 M.R.S. § 8104-D — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 741 / Section 8104-D
14 §8104-D. Personal liability of employees of a governmental entity
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise expressly provided by section 8111 or by any other law, and notwithstanding the common law, the personal liability of an employee of a governmental entity for negligent acts or omissions within the course and scope of employment shall be subject to a limit of $10,000 for any such claims arising out of a single occurrence and the employee is not liable for any amount in excess of that limit on any such claims. [PL 1987, c. 740, §4 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 4603 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4603
14 §4603. Certificate of dissolution
Status: in_force

When an attachment is dissolved by judgment for the defendant, or if the complaint in the action in which an attachment is made is not filed with the court within 30 days after the first attachment therein, the clerk of the court shall give any person applying therefor a certificate of that fact, which the register of deeds shall note on the margin of the record of the attachment. The said clerk of courts may charge a fee of 50¢ for such certificate.

Before or after the filing of said complaint in said court, or before or after judgment thereon, or if said complaint is not filed in court, the plaintiff or his attorney in such action may discharge the attachment in writing on the margin of the record thereof, or said plaintiff or said attorney may give a certificate, signed, sealed and acknowledged by him that said attachment is in whole or in part discharged, which the register of deeds shall record with a reference thereto on the margin of the records of attachments. The register of deeds shall note the record of said discharge on the margin of the records of attachments within an hour of the delivery to him of either of the aforesaid certificates. Such attachments may be discharged on the record thereof in the registry of deeds by an attorney-at-law authorized in writing by the plaintiff in said action, provided said writing is first recorded or filed in said registry of deeds with a reference thereto made by said register of deeds on the margin of the record of the attachment.
14 M.R.S. § 2151 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2151
14 §2151. Levy on mortgaged lands; deduction of amount due; remedy for errors
Status: in_force

Levies may be made on lands mortgaged as on lands not mortgaged, and the amount due on the mortgage may be deducted by the appraisers from their estimated value, and stated in their return. If the full amount due was not deducted, or if the levy was made in the usual form, and it is ascertained that there was a mortgage on the premises, not including other real estate, and not known to the creditor at the time of the levy, it shall nevertheless be valid, and the creditor may recover of the debtor the amount which should have been and was not deducted, or the amount due on such mortgage.
14 M.R.S. § 7216 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 731 / Section 7216
14 §7216. Tenant under State to have betterments
Status: in_force

If a person appears and proves himself to have a legal title to such estate and recovers it against the State or its grantee or tenant, the estate shall be liable for all expenses of improvements thereon over and above the rents and profits thereof, although the tenant and those claiming under the State had not been in possession during 6 years.
14 M.R.S. § 1954 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 1954
14 §1954. Lands of debtor to State sold on execution
Status: in_force

When an execution is issued in the name or for the use of the State, the debtor's real estate may be taken thereby and sold at auction, notice thereof being given as provided in section 2202 , except that notice shall also be published in the state paper, and the last publication in both papers shall be 6 days before the sale. The officer shall make and execute to the purchaser a deed of the estate sold. The debtor has the same right to redeem as to redeem lands levied on by appraisement.
14 M.R.S. § 5903 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 705 / Section 5903
14 §5903. Persons in representative capacities
Status: in_force

In actions against executors, administrators, trustees or others in a representative capacity, they may assert by counterclaim such demands as those whom they represent might have so asserted in actions against them; but no demands due to or from them in their own right can be asserted by counterclaim in such actions.
14 M.R.S. § 8911 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 761 / Section 8911
14 §8911. Transitional provision
Status: in_force

This Act applies to the registration of a Canadian judgment entered in a proceeding that is commenced in Canada on, before or after January 1, 2023. [PL 2021, c. 689, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 170 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 170
14 §170. Consumption of food
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Food product" means any product that is grown, prepared, manufactured, provided, served or sold and that is primarily intended for human consumption and nourishment. [PL 2005, c. 355, §1 (NEW).] B. "Long-term" means consisting of multiple instances over a period of time and not a single or isolated instance. [PL 2005, c. 355, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2005, c. 355, §1 (NEW).]

2. Liability limited. Except as provided in subsection 3 , a manufacturer, distributor or seller of a food product, or an association of one or more such entities, is not liable for personal injury or death to the extent the liability is based upon a person's weight gain or obesity resulting from the person's long-term consumption of the food product. [PL 2005, c. 355, §1 (NEW).]

3. Exception. Subsection 2 does not bar a claim for damages if otherwise available under any other provision of law against a manufacturer or distributor of food products if the manufacturer or distributor has failed to provide nutritional content information as required by any applicable state or federal statute, rule or regulation or has provided materially false or misleading information to the public. [PL 2005, c. 355, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6955 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6955
14 §6955. Recovery of damages against other persons
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall prevent the plaintiff from maintaining an action for mesne profits or for damage to the premises against any person, except the defendant in a real action who has had possession of the premises or is otherwise liable to such action.
14 M.R.S. § 5531 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 6 / Chapter 609 / Section 5531
14 §5531. Custody of party
Status: in_force

The party may be bailed to appear from day to day until judgment is rendered or remanded or committed to the sheriff or placed in custody, as the case requires.
14 M.R.S. § 2630 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2630
14 §2630. Retention of pay due trustee; unliquidated damages excepted
Status: in_force

Every trustee may retain or deduct out of the goods, effects and credits in his hands all his demands against the principal defendant, of which he could have availed himself if he had not been summoned as trustee, by way of counterclaim on trial or by a setoff of judgments or executions between himself and the principal defendant, except unliquidated damages for wrongs and injuries. He is liable for the balance only, after their mutual demands are adjusted.
14 M.R.S. § 6203-C — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 713 / Section 6203-C
14 §6203-C. Conveyance by mortgagor; effect
Status: in_force

A sale or transfer by the mortgagor shall not impair or annul any right or power of attorney given in the mortgage to the mortgagee to sell or to transfer the land as attorney or agent of the mortgagor. [PL 1967, c. 424, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 151 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 151
14 §151. Partial failure of consideration of note
Status: in_force

In any civil action in which the amount due on a promissory note given for the price of land conveyed is in question and a total failure of consideration would be a defense, partial failure of consideration may be shown in reduction of damages.
14 M.R.S. § 7156 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 729 / Section 7156
14 §7156. Bond on seizure
Status: in_force

When there is a claimant, the court may order the party seizing to give bond to him with sufficient surety for the safekeeping of the property seized, compliance with the order of court for restoration, and the payment of costs and damages, if not forfeited, and may hear and determine the cause by a jury, or without, if the parties agree, and may allow costs against the claimant. If there is no claimant, the court shall order the forfeiture and disposal of the property according to law, and a sale and distribution of the proceeds, after deducting all proper charges.
14 M.R.S. § 165 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 165
14 §165. Liability of those who store or distribute natural gas
Status: in_force

1. Liability without proof of negligence. A natural gas company or an intrastate or interstate natural gas pipeline company that stores, transports or distributes natural gas is liable for all acts and omissions of its servants and agents that cause death or injury to persons or damage to property resulting from explosions or fire caused by natural gas escaping from the natural gas storage, transportation or distribution system under its control or from explosions or fire caused by defects in the natural gas storage, transportation and distribution systems under its control. [PL 1997, c. 222, §1 (AMD).]

2. Rebuttable presumption. When there is death or injury to persons or damage to property resulting from explosions or fire caused by escaping natural gas, there is a rebuttable presumption that the gas escaped because of a defect in a portion of the storage, transportation or distribution system under the company's control. [PL 1997, c. 222, §1 (AMD).]

3. Exceptions. The company is not liable for death or injury to persons or damage to property caused by: A. An act of God or war; [PL 1995, c. 299, §1 (NEW).] B. Fault of the plaintiff to the extent that the plaintiff's fault bars or reduces the plaintiff's recovery under section 156 ; or [PL 1995, c. 299, §1 (NEW).] C. Intervening fault of a 3rd party for whose actions the company is not legally liable. If death or injury to persons or damage to property is caused by the combined fault of the company and other parties, the liability of the company is joint and several with those other parties. [PL 1995, c. 299, §1 (NEW).] [PL 1995, c. 299, §1 (NEW).]

4. Indemnity. In the event that the company is exposed to liability under this section because of the negligence of a 3rd party, the 3rd party shall indemnify the company for the company's losses, including any damages awarded or negotiated through settlement to any party, and costs and attorney's fees. [PL 1995, c. 299, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 710 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 710
14 §710. Service of precepts for work-jails in one or more counties
Status: in_force

An officer of any county qualified to serve precepts in criminal cases in the county where he resides may serve any precept required by the laws providing for work-jails, whether such service is performed in whole or in part in one or more counties, and processes shall be issued and directed accordingly.
14 M.R.S. § 6037 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710-A / Section 6037
14 §6037. Exemptions
Status: in_force

1. Federally guaranteed mortgages. Any of the provisions of this chapter relative to security deposits which may be in conflict with the terms of a mortgage guaranteed by the United States or any authority created under the laws thereof, shall not apply to security deposits held by a lessor who appears as the mortgagor in such a mortgage. [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).]

2. Owner-occupied buildings of 5 or fewer units. This chapter shall not apply to any tenancy for a dwelling unit which is part of a structure containing no more than 5 dwelling units, one of which is occupied by the landlord. [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6033 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 710-A / Section 6033
14 §6033. Return of the security deposit
Status: in_force

1. Normal wear and tear. A security deposit or any portion of a security deposit shall not be retained for the purpose of paying for normal wear and tear. [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).]

2. Return; time; retention. A landlord shall return to a tenant the full security deposit deposited with the landlord by the tenant or, if there is actual cause for retaining the security deposit or any portion of it, the landlord shall provide the tenant with a written statement itemizing the reasons for the retention of the security deposit or any portion of it: A. In the case of a written rental agreement, within the time, not to exceed 30 days, stated in the agreement; and [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).] B. In the case of a tenancy at will, within 21 days after the termination of the tenancy or the surrender and acceptance of the premises, whichever occurs later. [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).] The written statement itemizing the reasons for the retention of any portion of the security deposit must be accompanied by a full payment of the difference between the security deposit and the amount retained. Reasons for which a landlord may retain the security deposit or a portion of the security deposit include, but are not limited to, covering the costs of storing and disposing of unclaimed property, nonpayment of rent and nonpayment of utility charges that the tenant was required to pay directly to the landlord. The landlord is deemed to have complied with this section by mailing the statement and any payment required to the last known address of the tenant. [PL 1995, c. 52, §1 (AMD).]

3. Penalty. If a landlord fails to provide a written statement or to return the security deposit within the time specified in subsection 2 , the landlord shall forfeit his right to withhold any portion of the security deposit. [PL 1977, c. 359 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 8808 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 759 / Section 8808
14 §8808. Stay of proceeding pending appeal of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

If a party establishes that an appeal from a foreign-country judgment is pending or will be taken, the court may stay any proceeding with regard to the foreign-country judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires or the appellant has had sufficient time to prosecute the appeal and has failed to do so. [PL 2021, c. 689, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 752-B — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 752-B
14 §752-B. Ski areas
Status: in_force

All civil actions for property damage, bodily injury or death against a ski area owner or operator or tramway owner or operator or its employees, as defined under Title 32, chapter 133 , whether based on tort or breach of contract or otherwise, arising out of participation in skiing or hang gliding or the use of a tramway associated with skiing or hang gliding must be commenced within 2 years after the cause of action accrues. [PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. H, §5 (AMD); PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. H, §17 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 853 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 853
14 §853. Persons under disability may bring action when disability removed
Status: in_force

If a person entitled to bring any of the actions under sections 752 to 754 , including section 752‑C , and under sections 851 and 852 and Title 24, section 2902 and, until July 1, 2017, section 2902‑B is a minor, mentally ill, imprisoned or without the limits of the United States when the cause of action accrues, the action may be brought within the times limited herein after the disability is removed. [PL 2013, c. 329, §1 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 7355 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 735 / Section 7355
14 §7355. Judgment
Status: in_force

If the plaintiff maintains his action, he shall be discharged and recover his costs; but if not, the defendant shall recover his costs and such damages as the jury assess; or if the defendant is defaulted or the parties consent, the court may assess the damages.
14 M.R.S. § 1217 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 305 / Section 1217
14 §1217. Penalties for failure to perform jury service
Status: in_force

A person summoned for jury service who fails to appear or to complete jury service as directed shall be ordered by the court to appear forthwith and show cause for his failure to comply with the summons. Notwithstanding Title 17-A, section 4-A , a prospective juror who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the summons is guilty of contempt and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not more than $100 and by imprisonment for not more than 3 days, or by both. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §8 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6008 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 709 / Section 6008
14 §6008. Appeal
Status: in_force

1. Right to appeal. Either party may appeal on questions of law from a judgment to the Superior Court as in other civil actions. Either party may appeal on any issue triable by right by a jury to a trial de novo in the Superior Court as provided in this section. The time for filing an appeal of the judgment of the District Court expires upon the issuance of the writ of possession pursuant to section 6005 or 30 days from the time the judgment is entered, whichever occurs first. [PL 1997, c. 336, §2 (AMD).]

2. Appeal by defendant; record; stay. When the defendant appeals, the defendant shall pay to the plaintiff or, if there is a dispute about the rent, to the District Court, any unpaid portion of the current month's rent or the rent arrearage, whichever is less. The District Court shall promptly transmit the record and any such payments to the Superior Court without waiting for the preparation of a transcript of recorded testimony. The Superior Court may stay the issuance of a writ of possession pending disposition of the appeal. A. The Superior Court shall condition the granting and continuation of the stay on the defendant's payment of rent for the premises as required by this subsection at the time of appeal and on payment of any rent that has accrued since the filing of the appeal to the plaintiff or, if there is a dispute about the rent, into an escrow account to be administered by the clerk of the Superior Court. Upon application of either party, the Superior Court may authorize payments from the escrow account for appropriate expenses related to the premises. The appeal decision or an agreement of the parties must provide for the disposition of the escrowed rent. [PL 1997, c. 336, §2 (AMD).] B. The Superior Court may condition the granting and continuation of the stay, in appropriate cases, on the defendant's agreement to refrain from causing any nuisance or damage. [PL 1995, c. 448, §2 (NEW).] [PL 1997, c. 336, §2 (AMD).]

3. Vacation of stay; security; remedial order. Upon finding a violation of the conditions for granting the stay, the Superior Court shall vacate the stay and may issue a writ of possession. The Superior Court may require the plaintiff to provide security as may be necessary to protect the defendant's interest while the appeal is pending. If the defendant prevails, the Superior Court may issue a remedial order as necessary to make the defendant whole, including damages. [PL 1995, c. 448, §2 (NEW).]

4. Claim of title. In disputes involving a claim of title, the District Court may provide for discovery on an expedited schedule. [PL 1995, c. 448, §2 (NEW).]

5. Security. For the purposes of this section, "security" may include a bond, an escrow account, a lien, a mortgage, an order to make payments under a lease or contract as they become due or any other financial protection as is reasonably necessary to protect the interests of a party. The District Court and the Superior Court may make any necessary orders with respect to the provision of security, revise the orders when required by the interests of justice, sanction a party for failure to comply with a security requirement and waive or modify the requirement of security for good cause shown and recited in an order. [PL 1995, c. 448, §2 (NEW).]

6. Affidavit required. A notice of appeal filed by the defendant must be accompanied by an affidavit stating the defendant has complied with the requirements of subsection 2 regarding the payment of rent. [PL 2011, c. 405, §3 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 859 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 859
14 §859. Limitation extended in cases of fraud
Status: in_force

If a person, liable to any action mentioned, fraudulently conceals the cause thereof from the person entitled thereto, or if a fraud is committed which entitles any person to an action, the action may be commenced at any time within 6 years after the person entitled thereto discovers that he has just cause of action, except as provided in section 3580 . [PL 1985, c. 641, §1 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 2904 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2904
14 §2904. Compensation when trustee in another county
Status: in_force

When the trustee, at the time when the summons was served on him, did not live in the county where the summons is returnable, the court shall, in case of his discharge, allow him, in addition to his legal fee, a reasonable compensation for his time and expenses in appearing and defending.
14 M.R.S. § 7155 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 729 / Section 7155
14 §7155. Libel in Superior Court; notice
Status: in_force

The party seizing, within 20 days, shall file a complaint in the clerk's office of the Superior Court in the county where the offense was committed, stating the cause of seizure and praying for an order of forfeiture. The clerk shall thereupon make out a notice to all persons to appear at such court at the time appointed to show cause why such order should not be passed, which notice shall be published in some newspaper printed in the county, if any, if not, in the state paper, at least 14 days before the time of trial. [PL 1967, c. 544, §40 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 1154 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 303 / Section 1154
14 §1154. Return of report
Status: in_force

The report shall be made to the court within the time specified in the submission. One of the referees shall deliver it into court, or it shall be sealed up and sent sealed to the court, and shall be opened by the clerk.
14 M.R.S. § 702 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 702
14 §702. Duty of sheriffs, deputies and civil deputies; fees
Status: in_force

Every sheriff and each of the sheriff's deputies and civil deputies, as defined in Title 30‑A, section 351, subsection 5 , shall serve and execute, within the sheriff's county, all writs and precepts issued by lawful authority directed and committed to the sheriff, including those in which a town, plantation or parish of which the sheriff is a resident, or religious society or school district, of which the sheriff is at the time a member, is a party or interested, but the sheriff's legal fees for service must first be paid or secured to the sheriff. If the fees are not paid or secured to the sheriff when the process is delivered to the sheriff, the sheriff shall immediately return it to the plaintiff or attorney offering it; or if sent to the sheriff by mail or otherwise, the sheriff shall put it into a post office within 24 hours, directed to the person sending it; otherwise the sheriff waives the sheriff's right to the sheriff's fees before service. [PL 2017, c. 332, §1 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 4421 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4421
14 §4421. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words have the following meanings. [PL 1981, c. 431, §2 (NEW).]

1. Dependent. "Dependent" includes a spouse, whether or not actually dependent. [PL 1981, c. 431, §2 (NEW).]

1-A. Debtor. "Debtor" means an individual debtor. [PL 1983, c. 125, §4 (NEW).]

2. Value. "Value" means fair market value as of the date of the attachment or, in a proceeding under the United States Code, Title 11, the date of the filing of the petition. [PL 1981, c. 431, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6503 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6503
14 §6503. Service of process; publication
Status: in_force

Service of process shall be made as in other civil actions and notice by publication to tenants whose identity or whereabouts are unknown shall be given as in other actions where publication is required.
14 M.R.S. § 5927 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 706 / Section 5927
14 §5927. Validity of arbitration agreement
Status: in_force

A written agreement to submit any existing controversy to arbitration or a provision in a written contract to submit to arbitration any controversy thereafter arising between the parties is valid, enforceable and irrevocable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract. This chapter also applies to arbitration agreements between employers and employees or between their respective representatives, unless otherwise provided in the agreement. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 159 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 159
14 §159. Social and business invitees, standards of care
Status: in_force

The standards of care for a social invitee shall be the same as that of a business invitee. [PL 1967, c. 366 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 3104 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 3104
14 §3104. Execution where principal or trustee moves
Status: in_force

If, after a judgment is rendered in such trustee process, the principal defendant or trustee removes from the county in which it was rendered, such court may issue execution against either, directed to the proper officer of any other county where he is supposed to reside.
14 M.R.S. § 405 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 15 / Section 405
14 §405. Deposition, production and inspection
Status: in_force

The Maine Rules of Civil Procedure and the provisions of Title 16, sections 101 , 102 and 251 apply to depositions and discovery carried out under this Act and subpoenas issued under section 403 . [PL 2019, c. 109, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 5940 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 706 / Section 5940
14 §5940. Judgment or decree on award
Status: in_force

Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree. Costs of the application and of the proceedings subsequent thereto and disbursements may be awarded by the court. [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 4703 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 4703
14 §4703. Executions on default judgment without bond, valid after one year
Status: in_force

Whenever through accident, inadvertence or mistake an execution has been issued by the clerk or judge of any court in any county upon a judgment rendered on default of an absent defendant in a personal action, within one year after the rendition of such judgment, without deposit of the bond specified in sections 4701 and 4702 , all proceedings upon or by virtue of such execution or judgment shall, after one year from the rendition of such judgment, have the same effect and validity as if the bond had been duly given, deposited and approved unless relief from the judgment has been sought within said year. If such relief from the judgment is denied, all such proceedings shall be valid as aforesaid after such dismissal.
14 M.R.S. § 6508 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6508
14 §6508. Costs
Status: in_force

When a plaintiff is found to own a less share than is claimed in his complaint, he shall have partition of such share, but the defendant recovers costs. When found entitled to have partition of the share claimed, he recovers costs of the defendant. In such cases or on default, a judgment that partition be made shall be entered. In all other cases, including default of the defendant or defendants, when judgment for partition is given, the court, after notice to all parties in interest, may, in the discretion of the presiding justice, apportion the costs between the plaintiff and defendant or defendants or allow the plaintiff to recover costs of the proceedings against the defendant or defendants to be taxed the same as in a civil action, and execution may be issued therefor.
14 M.R.S. § 653 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 653
14 §653. Simulating legal papers forbidden
Status: in_force

No person shall send, deliver, mail or in any manner cause to be sent, delivered or mailed to any person, firm or corporation any paper or document simulating or intended to simulate a summons, complaint, writ or court process of any kind. Whoever violates this section commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture not to exceed $100 may be adjudged. [PL 1979, c. 663, §78 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 1153 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 303 / Section 1153
14 §1153. Authority of referees
Status: in_force

All the referees must meet and hear the parties; but a majority may make the report, which is as valid as if signed by all, if it appears by the report or certificate of the dissenting referee that all attended and heard the parties. They may allow costs or not to either party, unless special provision is made therefor in the submission, but the court may reduce their compensation. Any referee may swear witnesses. [PL 2009, c. 166, §2 (AMD).]

A referee appointed to hear a dispute concerning real property must report the referee's decision within one year of appointment by the court unless good cause for extending this period is shown. [PL 2009, c. 166, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 852 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 852
14 §852. Mutual and open accounts current
Status: in_force

In contract actions to recover the balance due, where there have been mutual dealings between the parties, the items of which are unsettled, whether kept or proved by one party or both, the cause of action shall be deemed to accrue at the time of the last item proved in such account.
14 M.R.S. § 2701 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2701
14 §2701. Liability of trustee for failure to disclose
Status: in_force

If a person resident in the county in which the action is commenced is summoned and neglects to serve a disclosure under oath submitting to examination within the time required therefor, without reasonable excuse, he is liable for all costs afterwards arising in the action, to be paid out of his own goods or estate if judgment is rendered for the plaintiff, unless paid out of the goods or effects in his hands belonging to the principal.
14 M.R.S. § 173 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 173
14 §173. Immunity for menstrual product donations
Status: in_force

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Apparently usable" means, with respect to a product, that the product meets all quality and labeling standards imposed by federal, state and local laws and regulations even if the product may not be readily marketable. [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).] B. "Menstrual product" means a sanitary napkin, tampon, liner, cup, underwear or any similar item used by an individual with respect to menstruation. [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).] [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).]

2. Immunity for donor. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a good faith donor of menstrual products that are apparently usable at the time they are donated to a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization for free distribution is immune from civil or criminal liability arising from injury or death due to the condition of the menstrual products, unless the injury or death is a direct result of the gross negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct of the donor. [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).]

3. Immunity of distributor. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization and any employee or volunteer of that organization who in good faith receive and distribute menstrual products that are apparently usable at the time they are distributed are immune from civil or criminal liability arising from an injury or death due to the condition of the menstrual products, unless the injury or death is a direct result of the gross negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct of the organization, employee or volunteer. [RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. A, §11 (COR).]

4. Application. This section applies to all good faith donations of menstrual products that are not readily marketable due to appearance, grade, surplus or other conditions, but nothing in this section restricts the authority of any appropriate agency to regulate or bar the use of those menstrual products for use. [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).]

5. Immunity of facilities. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a hospital or other health care facility licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services that, in good faith and in accordance with guidelines established by the recipient organization, donates menstrual products that are apparently usable at the time they are donated to a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization for free distribution is immune from civil or criminal liability arising from injury, illness or death due to the condition of the menstrual products, unless the injury, illness or death is a direct result of intentional misconduct of the donor. Nothing in this subsection prevents a licensed hospital or health care facility from receiving the immunity provided in subsection 2 if the donor qualifies for immunity under the terms of that subsection. [PL 2021, c. 178, §1 (NEW).]

Revisor's Note: §173. Installation of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors by fire departments (As enacted by PL 2021, c. 214, §1 is REALLOCATED TO TITLE 14, SECTION 174)
14 M.R.S. § 8801 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 759 / Section 8801
14 §8801. Short title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be known and cited as "the Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act." [PL 2021, c. 689, §2 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 812 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 812
14 §812. Acquisition of rights-of-way and easements by adverse possession; notice to prevent
Status: in_force

No person, class of persons or the public shall acquire a right-of-way or other easement through, in, upon or over the land of another by the adverse use and enjoyment thereof, unless it is continued uninterruptedly for 20 years. If a person apprehends that a right-of-way or other easement in or over his land may be acquired by custom, use or otherwise by any person, class of persons or the public, he may give public notice of his intention to prevent the acquisition of such easement by causing a copy of such notice to be posted in some conspicuous place upon the premises for 6 successive days, or in the case of land in the unorganized territory, by causing a copy of such notice to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county where his land lies, and such posting or recording shall prevent the acquiring of such easement by use for any length of time thereafter; or he may prevent a particular person or persons from acquiring such easement by causing an attested copy of such notice to be served by an officer qualified to serve civil process upon him or them in hand or by leaving it at his or their dwelling house, or, if the person to whom such notice is to be given is not in the State such copy may be left with the tenant or occupant of the estate, if any. If there is no such tenant or occupant, a copy of such notice shall be posted for 6 successive days in some conspicuous place upon such estate. Such notice from the agent, guardian or conservator of the owner of land shall have the same effect as a notice from the owner himself. A certificate by an officer qualified to serve civil process that such copy has been served or posted by him as provided, if made upon original notice and recorded with it, within 3 months after the service or posting in the registry of deeds for the county or district in which the land lies, shall be conclusive evidence of such service or posting. [PL 1971, c. 450, §1 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 3142 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502-A / Section 3142
14 §3142. Contempt hearing and punishment
Status: in_force

1. Punishment. Unless the defendant shows that failure to pay a fine was not attributable to a willful refusal to obey the order or to a failure on the defendant's part to make a good faith effort to obtain the funds required for the payment, the court may find the defendant in civil contempt and may impose punishment, as the case requires, of: A. A reasonable fine not to exceed $500; or [PL 2003, c. 193, §3 (AMD).] B. [PL 2003, c. 193, §3 (RP).] C. The suspension of any license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document evidencing the granting of authority to hunt, fish or trap or to engage in a profession, occupation, business or industry, not including a registration, permit, approval or similar document evidencing the granting of authority to engage in the business of banking pursuant to Title 9-B or a motor vehicle license or permit issued by the Secretary of State, the right to operate a motor vehicle in this State and the right to apply for or obtain a license or permit, as provided in Title 29-A . Licenses and registration subject to suspension include, but are not limited to: (1) Licenses issued by the Commissioner of Marine Resources, as provided in Title 12, section 6409 ; (2) Licenses issued by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, as provided in Title 12, section 10902, subsection 3 ; and (3) Watercraft, snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle registrations, as provided in Title 12, section 10902, subsection 3 . D. [PL 2019, c. 603, §4 (RP).] E. [PL 2019, c. 603, §5 (RP).] [PL 2019, c. 603, §§3-5 (AMD).]

2. Notification of issuing entity and person. Upon suspension of the person's license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document evidencing the granting of authority to hunt, fish or trap or to engage in a profession, occupation, business or industry, the court shall notify the person and the issuing agency that the court has ordered the suspension. The issuing agency shall immediately record the suspension except that, in the case of a suspension of a driver's license or right to operate a motor vehicle, if the suspension results from the nonpayment of a fine that is not related to the operation of a motor vehicle, the suspension may not take effect until 60 days after the mailing of the notice. The court shall immediately notify that person by regular mail or personal service. Written notice is sufficient if sent to the person's last known address. [PL 2005, c. 325, §1 (AMD).]

3. Purge of contempt. The court shall provide an opportunity for the defendant to purge the contempt by complying with the court's order to pay or with an amended order to pay. The provisions of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 66 and the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure, Rule 42 do not apply to proceedings initiated under this section. [PL 2015, c. 431, §2 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 1503 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 311 / Section 1503
14 §1503. Appeals in condemnation proceedings
Status: in_force

In all proceedings for the estimation of damages for the taking of lands or other property under any general or special law, if the owner of the land, after an award made by the county commissioners, enters an appeal therefrom and fails to obtain a final judgment for an amount greater than the amount of the said award with interest thereon to the date of said judgment, he shall be subject to costs accruing after the date of said first award and the amount thereof may be applied in reduction of the sum required to be paid by said judgment.
14 M.R.S. § 4102 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4102
14 §4102. Subsequent attachments
Status: in_force

After service of the summons and complaint upon the defendant, the court on motion without notice may for cause shown order an additional attachment of real estate, goods and chattels on other property.
14 M.R.S. § 2621 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2621
14 §2621. Part of goods taken; delivery of residue
Status: in_force

When a part of such goods and articles is taken on execution, the trustee may deliver the residue to the principal or tender it to him within 30 days after satisfaction of the execution, as he might have delivered the whole.
14 M.R.S. § 221 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 10 / Section 221
14 §221. Defective or unreasonably dangerous goods
Status: in_force

One who sells any goods or products in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to a person whom the manufacturer, seller or supplier might reasonably have expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods, or to his property, if the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product and it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without significant change in the condition in which it is sold. This section applies although the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product and the user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller. [PL 1973, c. 466, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 5949 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 706 / Section 5949
14 §5949. Short title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Arbitration Act." [PL 1967, c. 430 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6656 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 723 / Section 6656
14 §6656. Service on missing defendant; agent; expenses
Status: in_force

Service in such action shall be as provided in section 6653 . Notice given under this section shall be constructive service on all the defendants. If, after notice has been given or served as ordered by the court and the time limited in such notice for the appearance of the defendants has expired, the court finds that there are or may be defendants who have not been actually served with process and who have not appeared in the action, it may of its own motion, or on the representation of any party, appoint an agent, guardian ad litem or next friend for any such defendant, and if any such defendants have or may have conflicting interests, it may appoint different agents, guardians ad litem or next friends to represent them. The cost of appearance of any such agent, guardian ad litem or next friend, including the compensation of his counsel, shall be determined by the court and paid by the plaintiff, against whom execution may issue therefor in the name of the agent, guardian ad litem or next friend.
14 M.R.S. § 6452 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 717 / Section 6452
14 §6452. -- petitions for declaration of citizenship
Status: in_force

The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine complaints of persons alleging themselves to be citizens, resident and domiciled inhabitants of this State and praying a judicial declaration of such citizenship, residence and domicile. Such complaints shall set forth the grounds upon which the application is based, shall be supported by such evidence as the court shall deem necessary and shall be filed, heard and determined in the county in which the plaintiff claims residence. If such plaintiff desires a jury trial upon his complaint, he may indorse a request therefor upon the complaint at the time of entry and shall thereupon be entitled to the same.
14 M.R.S. § 752-F — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 205 / Section 752-F
14 §752-F. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Status: in_force

A cause of action arising out of any harm or injury caused by a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance accrues on the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered such harm or injury. For the purposes of this section, "perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance" means any member of the class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom. This section does not affect application of notice requirements for filing under section 8107 or the limitation on actions against a government entity under section 8110 . [PL 2021, c. 328, §1 (NEW); PL 2021, c. 328, §2 (AFF).]
14 M.R.S. § 3138 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 502 / Section 3138
14 §3138. Enforcement of administrative orders
Status: in_force

An administrative order of any agency or department requiring the payment of money to that agency or department is enforceable through the Superior Court under the following procedure. A certified copy of the administrative order must be filed with the court in the county in which the administrative order was issued. The administrative order must be accompanied by an affidavit from an authorized representative of the agency or department or from an assistant attorney general acting as counsel for the agency. The affidavit must state the facts showing that the agency or department provided notice of and opportunity for a hearing to contest the claim, that all applicable time periods for appeal have run and that the administrative order is final. [PL 2011, c. 181, §1 (NEW).]

The court shall then render a pro forma decision in accordance with the administrative order of the agency, which has the same effect as if it were rendered in an action in which equitable relief is sought, duly heard and determined by the court. The decision may thereafter be enforced as a money judgment pursuant to this chapter and chapter 502‑A . [PL 2011, c. 181, §1 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 8002 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 740 / Section 8002
14 §8002. Definition
Status: in_force

In this Act "foreign judgment" means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this State. [PL 1975, c. 335 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 2603 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2603
14 §2603. Effect of service on trustee; service on partnership
Status: in_force

Service on the trustee binds all goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant entrusted to and deposited in the trustee's possession, to respond to the final judgment in the action, as when attached by ordinary process if process describing the principal defendant with reasonable certainty is received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a reasonable opportunity to act on it. When a partnership is made a trustee on trustee process, service upon one member of the firm is a sufficient attachment of the property of the principal defendant in the possession of the firm, if that service is made at any place of business of the firm or, if that service is made elsewhere, that legal service is afterward made upon the other members of the firm. [PL 2003, c. 149, §3 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 5004 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 509 / Section 5004
14 §5004. Removal of prior attachment
Status: in_force

If the prior attachment is dissolved or the estate is set off or sold in part under it, the estate or remaining part thereof continues bound for 30 days thereafter by such seizure on execution. The service of the execution may be completed within that time as if the estate had been then first seized thereon, although the return day of the execution has passed.
14 M.R.S. § 6957 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 725 / Section 6957
14 §6957. Tenant ousted after 6 years may recover for improvements
Status: in_force

When a person makes entry into lands or tenements of which the tenant in possession, or those under whom he claims, have been in actual possession for 6 years or more, and withholds from such tenant the possession thereof, the tenant may recover of the person so entering, or of his executor or administrator, the increased value of the premises by reason of the buildings and improvements made by the tenant or by those under whom he claims, to be ascertained by the principles hereinbefore provided. These provisions extend to the grantee or assignee of the tenant in dower and of any other life estate. A lien is created on the premises in favor of such claim, to be enforced by an action commenced within 3 years after such entry. It is no bar to such action if the tenant, to avoid cost, yields to the superior title.
14 M.R.S. § 4354 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4354
14 §4354. Proceeds attached in hands of officers; surplus
Status: in_force

The proceeds of such property sold by order of court may be further attached by the officer as property of the defendant while remaining in his hands; and held and disposed of as if the property itself had been attached; but after retaining enough to satisfy all attachments existing thereon at any time, nothing herein shall prevent his paying the surplus to the debtor.
14 M.R.S. § 1903 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 401 / Section 1903
14 §1903. Appellant's recognizance
Status: in_force

If so requested by the adverse party, the appellant shall within one week after notice of such request, or within such further time as may be allowed by the court, recognize to such adverse party in a reasonable sum, with condition to prosecute his appeal with effect and pay all costs arising after the appeal.
14 M.R.S. § 2957 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 501 / Section 2957
14 §2957. Principal may recover where no 2nd attachment
Status: in_force

If there is no 2nd attachment, the principal defendant may recover the goods, effects and credits, if not so demanded, as if they had not been attached.
14 M.R.S. § 6501 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6501
14 §6501. Civil action
Status: in_force

Persons seized or having a right of entry into real estate in fee simple or for life, as tenants in common or joint tenants, may be compelled to divide the same by a civil action for partition.
14 M.R.S. § 1151 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 3 / Chapter 303 / Section 1151
14 §1151. Controversies referable; powers of referees; revocation by consent
Status: in_force

All controversies which may be the subject of a personal action may be submitted to one or more referees, with the same powers as those appointed by the court. The parties personally or by attorney may sign and acknowledge an agreement before a notary public, although he is one of the referees, in substance as follows: "Know all men by these presents, that ...., of ...., in the County of ...., and ...., of ...., in the County of ...., have agreed to submit the demand made by said ...., against said ...., which is hereunto annexed," (and all other demands between the parties, as the case may be,) "to the determination of ...., .... and ....; and judgment rendered on their report, or that of a majority of them, made to the Superior Court for the said County of ...., within one year from this day, shall be final. And if either party neglects to appear before the referees, after proper notice given to him of the time and place appointed for hearing the parties, they may proceed in his absence. Dated this .... day of ...., A.D., 19.... ." [PL 1981, c. 456, Pt. A, §128 (AMD).]

Such agreement shall not be revoked without mutual consent, but the parties may agree when the report shall be made and vary the form accordingly.
14 M.R.S. § 2208 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 4 / Chapter 403 / Section 2208
14 §2208. Titles of banks and corporations, as mortgagees, sold
Status: in_force

The titles of banks or corporations, as mortgagees of land, may be taken on execution and sold as real estate and interests therein are taken and sold. The officer may by deed convey the same, and a debt secured by such mortgage and remaining unpaid will pass with the mortgagee's title to the purchaser, who may recover the premises or debt in his own name. In such action, a copy of the mortgage, attested by the register of deeds, is prima facie evidence of such deed, and of the contracts secured by it, as remaining due at the time of trial. The cashier of the bank or clerk of the corporation, on reasonable request of the officer, shall furnish him with a certified copy of such contract and of all payments made thereon.
14 M.R.S. § 4052 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 505 / Section 4052
14 §4052. Election days
Status: in_force

No elector shall be arrested, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace, on the days of election of United States, state or town officers.
14 M.R.S. § 651 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 2 / Chapter 203 / Section 651
14 §651. Unknown defendant sued by assumed name
Status: in_force

When the name of a defendant is not known to the plaintiff, the summons may issue against him by an assumed name. If duly served, it shall not be dismissed for that reason but may be amended on such terms as the court orders.
14 M.R.S. § 6005 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 709 / Section 6005
14 §6005. Writ of possession; service
Status: in_force

When the defendant is defaulted or fails to show sufficient cause, judgment must be rendered against the defendant by the District Court for possession of the premises. Seven calendar days after the judgment is entered, the court shall issue the writ of possession to remove the defendant. The writ may be served by a sheriff or a constable. If at least 3 good faith efforts on 3 different days have been made to serve the defendant, service may be accomplished by both mailing the notice by first-class mail to the defendant's last known address and leaving the writ of possession at the defendant's last and usual place of abode. A writ of possession may not issue in any case in which the ground for termination of the tenancy at will was rent arrearage and the defendant paid the amount necessary to reinstate the tenancy as provided by section 6002 . [PL 1999, c. 248, §3 (AMD).]

An additional writ of possession may be issued by the clerk at the request of the plaintiff after issuance of the first writ. [PL 1989, c. 452, §2 (NEW).]

When a writ of possession has been served on the defendant by a constable or sheriff, and the defendant fails to remove himself or his possessions within 48 hours of service by the constable or sheriff, the defendant is deemed a trespasser without right and the defendant's goods and property are considered by law to be abandoned and subject to section 6013 . [PL 1981, c. 428, §6 (NEW).]
14 M.R.S. § 6401 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 715 / Section 6401
14 §6401. Ratification
Status: in_force

The Interpleader Compact is approved, ratified, adopted and entered into by this State as a party state to take effect between this State and any other state or states as defined in said compact when entered into in accordance with the terms of said compact by said other state or states and not disapproved by the Governor of this State under Article VII, subsection 3 , of such compact.
14 M.R.S. § 251 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 11 / Section 251
14 §251. Rights of those judged in contempt
Status: in_force

In all cases where a person shall be charged with contempt for violation of a restraining order or injunction issued by a court or judge or judges thereof, in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, the accused shall enjoy:

1. Bail. The rights as to admission to bail that are accorded to persons accused of crime;

2. Accusation and defense. The right to be notified of the accusation and a reasonable time to make a defense, provided the alleged contempt is not committed in the immediate view or presence of the court;

3. Trial by jury. Upon demand, the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the county wherein the contempt was allegedly committed. This requirement may not be construed to apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice or to apply to the misbehavior, misconduct or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect to the writs, orders or process of the court. [PL 2005, c. 683, Pt. B, §8 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 6512 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 719 / Section 6512
14 §6512. Oath
Status: in_force

Before proceeding to discharge their duty, the commissioners shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial performance of it. The dedimus justice before whom they are sworn shall make his certificate thereof on the back of their warrant. [PL 1987, c. 736, §18 (AMD).]
14 M.R.S. § 7204 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 7 / Chapter 731 / Section 7204
14 §7204. Judgment on default
Status: in_force

If the defendant does not appear and answer to such information, judgment shall be rendered that the State be reseized of its lands.
14 M.R.S. § 4453 — ME Code / Title 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 507 / Section 4453
14 §4453. Attachment of right of redemption
Status: in_force

When a right of redeeming real estate mortgaged or taken on execution is attached and such estate is redeemed or the encumbrance removed before the levy of the execution, the attachment holds the premises discharged of the mortgage or levy, as if they had not existed.