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MA Gen L ch 185 § 65 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 65 - Procedure to Convey Part of Land Described on Certificate

Section 65. If a deed in fee is for a part only of the land described in a certificate of title, the assistant recorder shall also, in accordance with the rules and instructions of the court, enter a new certificate for the part of the land not included in the deed. In every case of transfer, the new certificate or certificates shall include all the land described in the old certificate; but no new certificate to a grantee of a part only of the land shall be invalid by reason of the failure of the assistant recorder to enter a new certificate to the grantor for the remaining unconveyed portion. If the land described in a certificate of title is divided into lots, designated by numbers or letters, with measurements of all the bonds, and a plan of said land has been filed with the recorder and verified pursuant to section fifty-one, and a certified copy thereof is recorded in the registration book with the original certificate when the registered owner makes a deed of transfer in fee of one or more of such lots, the assistant recorder may, instead of canceling such certificate and entering a new certificate to the grantor for the part of the land not included in the deed of transfer, enter on the original certificate a memorandum of such deed of transfer, with a reference to the lot or lots thereby conveyed, as designated on said plan, and stating that the certificate is canceled as to such lot or lots. Every certificate with such memorandum shall be as effectual for the purpose of showing the grantor's title to the remainder of the land not conveyed as if the old certificate had been canceled and a new certificate of such land entered; and such process may be repeated so long as there is convenient space upon the original certificate for making such memorandum of sale of lots.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 66 - Statement of Encumbrances or Claims on New Certificate

Section 66. If, at the time of any transfer, encumbrances or claims adverse to the title of the registered owner appear upon the registration book, they shall be stated in the new certificate or certificates, except so far as they may be simultaneously released or discharged.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 67 - Authority to Mortgage

Section 67. The owner of registered land may mortgage it by executing a mortgage deed. Such deed may be assigned, extended, discharged, released in whole or in part, or otherwise dealt with by the mortgagee by any form of deed or instrument sufficient in law for the purpose. But such mortgage deed, and all instruments which assign, extend, discharge and otherwise deal with the mortgage, shall be registered, and shall take effect upon the title only from the time of registration.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 68 - Registration of Mortgage

Section 68. Registration of a mortgage shall be made in the following manner: the assistant recorder shall enter upon the certificate of title a memorandum of the purport of the mortgage deed, the time of filing and the file number of the deed, and shall sign the memorandum. He shall also note upon the mortgage deed the time of filing and a reference to the volume and page of the registration book in which it is registered.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 69 - Discharge of Mortgage

Section 69. A mortgage on registered land may be discharged by the mortgagee in person on the registration book in the same manner as a mortgage on unregistered land may be discharged by an entry on the record book in the registry of deeds, and such discharge shall be attested by an assistant recorder.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 70 - Foreclosure

Section 70. Mortgages of registered land may be foreclosed in the same manner as mortgages of unregistered land; but in case of foreclosure by entry and possession, the certificate of entry required by section two of chapter two hundred and forty-four shall be filed and registered by an assistant recorder in lieu of recording. After possession has been obtained by the mortgagee or his assigns, by entry or by action, and has continued for the time required by law to complete the foreclosure, he or his assigns may request the land court for the entry of a new certificate, and the court, after notice to all parties in interest, shall have jurisdiction to hear the case, and may order the entry of a new certificate on such terms as equity and justice may require.  In case of foreclosure by action as provided in chapter two hundred and forty-four, and by exercising the power of sale in the mortgage under the direction of the court as provided therein, a certified copy of the final judgment confirming the sale may, after the time for appeal therefrom has expired, be filed with the assistant recorder, and the purchaser shall thereupon be entitled to the entry of a new certificate.  In case of foreclosure by exercising the power of sale without a previous judgement of court, the affidavit required by section fifteen of chapter two hundred and forty-four shall be filed and registered with the assistant recorder, in lieu of recording. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale or his assigns may thereupon at any time present the deed under the power of sale to the assistant recorder for filing and registration, and obtain a new certificate; but this chapter shall not prevent the mortgagor or other person in interest, prior to the entry of a new certificate of title, from directly impeaching, by bill in equity or otherwise, any foreclosure proceedings affecting registered land.  After a new certificate of title has been entered, no judgment recovered on the mortgage note for any balance due thereon shall operate to open the foreclosure or affect the title to registered land.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 71 - Registration of Leases or Notices of Leases

Section 71. Leases, or notices of leases as defined in section four of chapter one hundred and eighty-three, of registered land for more than seven years from the making thereof shall be registered in lieu of recording.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 72 - Trusts in Registered Land

Section 72. If a deed or other instrument is filed in order to transfer registered land in trust, or upon any equitable condition or limitation expressed therein, or to create or declare a trust or other equitable interest in such land without transfer, the particulars of the trust, condition, limitation or other equitable interest shall not be entered on the certificate; but a memorandum thereof shall be entered by the words ''in trust'', or ''upon condition'', or other apt words, and by a reference by number to the instrument authorizing or creating the same. The assistant recorder shall note upon the original instrument creating or declaring the trust or other equitable interest a reference by number to the certificate of title to which it relates, and to the volume and page in the registration book in which it is registered. If the instrument creating or declaring a trust or other equitable interest is already recorded in the registry of deeds or of probate, a certified copy may be filed by the assistant recorder and registered.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 73 - Trusts With Powers of Sale, Mortgage, Etc.

Section 73. If the instrument creating or declaring a trust or other equitable interest contains an express power to sell, mortgage or deal with the land in any manner, such power shall be stated in the certificate of title by the words ''with power to sell'', or ''power to mortgage'', and by apt words of description in case of other powers. No instrument which transfers, mortgages or in any way deals with registered land held in trust shall be registered, unless the power thereto enabling is expressly conferred in the trust instrument, or unless the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction on a bill for instructions or other proceeding has construed the instrument in favor of the power. In such case a certified copy of such decree may be filed with the assistant recorder, and he shall make registration in accordance therewith.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 74 - Appointment of New Trustee; Proceedings

Section 74. If a new trustee of registered land is appointed by the supreme judicial court, the superior court or the probate court, a new certificate shall be entered to him upon presentation to the assistant recorder of a certified copy of the decree.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 75 - Implied or Constructive Trusts; Filing of Statement

Section 75. Whoever claims an interest in registered land by reason of any implied or constructive trust shall file for registration with the assistant recorder a statement thereof containing a description of the land, and a reference to the number of the certificate of title and the volume and page of the registration book in which it is entered. Such claim shall not affect the title of a purchaser for value and in good faith before its registration.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 76 - Registration of Land Held in Trust

Section 76. A trustee may bring an action for registration of any land held in trust by him, unless expressly prohibited by the instrument creating the trust.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 77 - Burdens and Incidents Attaching by Law

Section 77. Registered land, and ownership therein, shall in all respects be subject to the burdens and incidents attaching by law to unregistered land. This chapter shall not relieve registered land or the owners thereof from any rights incident to the relation of husband and wife, or from liability to attachment on mesne process or levy on execution, or from liability to any lien of any description established by law on land and the buildings thereon, or on the interest of the owner in such land or buildings, nor shall it change the laws of descent, or the rights of partition between co-tenants, or the right to take the same by eminent domain, or relieve such land from liability to be recovered by an assignee in insolvency or trustee in bankruptcy under the laws relative to preferences, or change or affect in any way any other rights or liabilities created by law and applicable to unregistered land, except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 78 - Filing and Registration of Attachments or Liens

Section 78. A writing of any description or a copy of any writ required by law to be filed or recorded in the registry of deeds in order to create or preserve any lien, right or attachment upon unregistered land, if intended to affect registered land shall, except in the case of notices, releases and discharges of child support liens pursuant to chapter one hundred and nineteen A, federal tax liens and other federal liens which may be filed in the commonwealth, in lieu of recording, be filed and registered in the office of the assistant recorder for the registry district where the land lies, and, in addition to any particulars required in such papers for recording with records of deeds, shall also contain a reference to the number of the certificate of title of the land to be affected, and the volume and page of the registration book in which the certificate is registered, and also, if the attachment, right or lien is not claimed on all the land in any certificate of title, shall contain a description sufficiently accurate for identification of the land intended to be affected.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 80 - Filing of Instruments Evidencing Continuation, Reduction, Discharge or Dissolution

Section 80. Attachments on mesne process and liens of every description upon registered land shall be continued, reduced, discharged and dissolved by any methods sufficient in law to continue, reduce, discharge or dissolve like liens on unregistered land. All certificates or other instruments permitted or required by law to be recorded in the registry of deeds to give effect to the continuance, reduction, discharge or dissolution of attachments or other liens upon unregistered land, or to give notice of such continuance, reduction, discharge or dissolution, shall, in the case of like liens upon registered land, except releases and discharges of liens for child support liens pursuant to chapter one hundred and nineteen A and federal taxes and other federal liens which may be filed in the commonwealth be filed with the assistant recorder and registered in the registration book, in lieu of recording.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 81 - Applicability of Laws Relating to Attachment on Mesne Process

Section 81. All laws relative to attachments of real estate and leasehold estates on mesne process shall apply to registered land, except that the duties required to be performed by the register of deeds shall be performed by the assistant recorder for the registry district where the land lies, who, in lieu of recording, shall register the facts required to be recorded, and for that purpose shall keep books similar to those required to be kept for attachments by registers of deeds, and the fees for registering attachments shall be the same as for recording them.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 82 - Endorsement of Plaintiff's Attorney Upon Writ

Section 82. If an attachment is made, the name and address of the plaintiff's attorney shall be endorsed upon the writ, and he shall be deemed to be the attorney of the plaintiff until written notice that he has ceased to be such shall have been filed for registration by the plaintiff.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 83 - Registration of Order Continuing, Reducing or Dissolving Attachment on Mesne Process

Section 83. If an attachment on mesne process is continued, reduced, dissolved or otherwise affected by an order, decision or judgment of the court where the action or proceeding in which said attachment was made is pending, or by an order of a court having jurisdiction in insolvency or bankruptcy, a certificate of the entry of such order, decision or judgment from the clerk or register and under the seal of the court, shall be entitled to be registered on presentation to the assistant recorder. A like certificate of the allowance by the court of an amendment which a subsequent attaching creditor or purchaser contends had the effect of dissolving an attachment may be registered as an amendment allowed, but shall not be conclusive of dissolution, unless the court where the action or suit is pending adjudicates that the amendment dissolved the attachment, whereupon a certificate of the order, when it becomes absolute, shall be registered as a dissolution of the attachment.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 84 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 84 - Enforcement of Liens

Section 84. Any lien on registered land shall be enforced in the same manner as a like lien on unregistered land. If registered land is set off or sold on execution, or taken or sold for taxes or for any assessment, or sold to enforce a lien for labor or materials, or the lien of a mortgagee or co-tenant arising from a payment of taxes, or the lien for an assessment under chapter eighty, or for costs and charges for taking down dangerous structures under section nine of chapter one hundred and forty-three, or for erecting fences along the line of a railroad corporation under section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty, or for improving low land and swamps under section eleven of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, or for flowing land under section fourteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-three, or for any costs and charges incident to such liens, any execution, or copy of the execution, any officer's return, or any deed, demand, certificate or affidavit or other instrument made in the course of proceedings to enforce such liens and required by law to be recorded in the registry of deeds in the case of unregistered land, shall be filed with the assistant recorder for the district where the land lies and registered in the registration book, and a memorandum made upon the proper certificate of title in each case as an adverse claim or encumbrance.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 85 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 85 - New Certificate to Person Claiming Under Execution

Section 85. When the time has expired for redemption after registered land has been set off or sold on execution, or taken or sold for the enforcement of a lien of any description, the person claiming under an execution or a deed or other instrument made in the course of proceedings to levy such execution or enforce any lien may petition for the entry of a new certificate to him, which may be granted. Every such new certificate shall contain a memorandum of the nature of the proceeding on which it is based. Before the entry of a new certificate, the registered owner may pursue all legal and equitable remedies to impeach or annul proceedings under executions or to enforce liens of any description.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 86 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 86 - Filing and Registration of Memorandum of Proceedings Affecting Land; Registration of Judgment or Decree

Section 86. No civil action to recover a freehold estate, suit for partition, or other proceeding affecting the title to land or the use and occupation thereof or the buildings thereon, and no judgment or decree or any proceeding to vacate or reverse any judgment or decree shall have any effect upon registered land as against persons other than the parties thereto, unless a memorandum like that described in section fifteen of chapter one hundred and eighty-four, containing also a reference to the number of the certificate of title of the land affected and the volume and page of the registration book in which it is entered, is filed and registered. This section shall not apply to attachments, levies of execution, or to the probate of wills or administration in the probate court. If notice of the pendency of the proceeding has been duly registered, it shall be sufficient to register the judgment or decree within sixty days after the rendition thereof.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 87 - Certificate of Manner of Disposal

Section 87. At any time after final judgment or decree in favor of the defendant, or other disposition in the manner specified in section sixteen of chapter one hundred and eighty-four, of any case where a memorandum has been registered as provided in the preceding section, a certificate of the clerk, stating the manner of disposal thereof, as provided in said section sixteen, shall be entitled to registration.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 185 - The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land|Section 88 - Registration of Judgment

Section 88. If judgment is entered for the plaintiff or demandant in a real action affecting registered land, except in ejectment, and actions under chapter two hundred and thirty-nine relative to terms of less than seven years, such judgment shall be entitled to registration on presentation of a certificate of the entry thereof from the clerk of the court where the action is pending to the assistant recorder, who shall enter a memorandum upon the certificate of title of the land to which such judgment relates. If the judgment does not apply to all the land described in the certificate of title, the certificate of the clerk and the memorandum entered by the assistant recorder shall contain a description of the land affected by the judgment.