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14 ME Rev Stat § 6325 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 713: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGES|Subchapter 6: FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS BY CIVIL ACTION|14 §6325. Exceptions

 §6325. Exceptions The method of foreclosure set forth in sections 6321 to 6324 may be used for the foreclosure of all real property mortgages, except for railroad mortgages, so called, or for indentures or deeds of trust securing bond issues of corporations wherein the method of foreclosure or sale is provided in the indenture or deed of trust or any similar instrument; provided that any such railroad mortgage, corporate indenture, deed of trust or similar instrument executed subsequent to January 1, 1976, shall be subject to this subchapter unless the applicability of this chapter is expressly negated in such instrument. The method of foreclosure set forth in sections 6321 to 6324 shall not apply to tax lien mortgages created under Title 36.   [PL 1981, c. 698, §87 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1975, c. 552, §5 (NEW). PL 1977, c. 564, §70 (AMD). PL 1981, c. 698, §87 (AMD).
14 ME Rev Stat § 6351 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6351. Purpose -- Article I

 §6351. Purpose -- Article I The aims of this compact are to promote comity and judicial cooperation among the states party thereto; and to relieve from undue risk and uncertainty, a person who may be subject to double or multiple liability because of the existence of adverse claimants, one or more of whom in the absence of this compact may not be subject to the jurisdiction of the adjudicating court, when such person makes all reasonable efforts to secure judicial determination and discharge of his liability.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6352 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6352. Definitions -- Article II

 §6352. Definitions -- Article II For the purpose of this compact the following definitions shall apply:   1.  State.  A state shall mean   A. A state of the United States or any territory or possession of the United States and the District of Columbia acting under Article I, section 10, clause 3, of the Constitution of the United States in entering this compact with an American or a foreign jurisdiction, or   B. A state of the community of nations and any component governmental unit of such a state which under the laws thereof may validly become party to this compact.   2.  Person.  A person shall include any entity capable of suing or being sued in the state in which the interpleader is pending.   3.  Interpleader.  Interpleader shall mean a judicial procedure by which 2 or more persons who have adverse claims against a 3rd person may be required to litigate these claims in one proceeding.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6353 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6353. Service of process -- Article III

 §6353. Service of process -- Article III 1.  Personal jurisdiction.  Service of process sufficient to acquire personal jurisdiction may be made within a state party to this compact, by a person who institutes an interpleader proceeding or interpleader part of a proceeding in another state, party to this compact, provided that such service shall fulfill the requirements for service of process of the state in which the service is made and provided further that such service shall meet the minimum standards for service of the jurisdiction where the proceeding is pending.   2.  Validity.  No such service of process shall be valid unless either:   A. The subject matter of the proceeding is specific real property or tangible personal property situated within the state in which the proceeding is pending; or   B. One or more of the claimants shall be either a permanent resident or domiciliary of the state in which the proceeding is pending; or   C. A significant portion of the transaction out of which the proceeding shall have arisen shall have taken place in the state in which the proceeding is pending; or   D. One of the claimants shall have initiated the action.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6354 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6354. Scope of interpleader unaffected -- Article IV

 §6354. Scope of interpleader unaffected -- Article IV Nothing in this compact shall be construed to change any requirement or limitation on the scope of interpleader of the state in which the interpleader proceeding is pending except in relation to acquisition of personal jurisdiction.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6355 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6355. Finality of judgment -- Article V

 §6355. Finality of judgment -- Article V No judgment obtained against any person in any proceeding to which he had become a party by reason of service of process effected pursuant to the provisions of this compact shall be subject to attack on the ground that the adjudicating court did not have personal jurisdiction over such person.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6356 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6356. Enactment -- Article VI

 §6356. Enactment -- Article VI 1.  Effective date.  This compact shall enter into force and effect as to a state one year from the date it has taken whatever action may be necessary pursuant to its required processes to make this compact part of the laws of such state and the appropriate authority of such state shall have deposited a duly authenticated copy of its statute, proclamation, order or similar official pronouncement having the force of law and embodying this compact as law with the appropriate officer or agency of each of the states party thereto. In the statute, proclamation, order or similar act by which a state adopts this compact, it shall specify the officer or agency with whom the documents referred to in this Article shall be deposited.   2.  Applicability.  Unless the statute, proclamation, order or similar act by which a state adopts this compact shall specify otherwise, and name the states with which the state intends to compact, such adoption shall apply to all other states then party to or who may subsequently become party to this compact. In the event that a state shall enter this compact with some states but not with others, the deposit of documents required by subsection 1 shall be effected only with those states to which the adopting state specifies an intention to be bound.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6357 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6357. Withdrawal -- Article VII

 §6357. Withdrawal -- Article VII 1.  Notice.  This compact shall continue in force and remain binding on a party state until such state shall withdraw therefrom. To be valid and effective, any withdrawal must be preceded by a formal notice in writing of one year from the appropriate authority of that state. Such notice shall be communicated to the same officer or agency in each party state with which the notice of adoption was deposited pursuant to Article VI. In the event that a state wishes to withdraw with respect to one or more states, but wishes to remain a party to this compact with other states party thereto, its notice of withdrawal shall be communicated only to those states with respect to which withdrawal is contemplated.   2.  Service of process.  Withdrawal shall not be effective as to service of process accomplished pursuant to this compact prior to the actual date of withdrawal.   3.  Adoption.  Any state receiving a notice of adoption from another state may by action of its executive head within a year from the receipt of such notice in the manner provided for withdrawal in subsection 1 specify its intention not to be bound to the state depositing such notice and such adoption thereupon shall not be binding upon the state so acting.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6358 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 1: COMPACT|14 §6358. Severability and construction -- Article VIII

 §6358. Severability and construction -- Article VIII The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state, or in the case of a component governmental unit, to the constitution of the state of which it is a part, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held invalid or contrary to the constitution of any government participating therein the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining governments and in full force and effect as to the government affected as to all severable matters. It is the intent that the provisions of this compact shall be reasonably and liberally construed.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6401 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 2: PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMPACT|14 §6401. Ratification

 §6401. Ratification 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 ME Rev Stat § 6402 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 2: PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMPACT|14 §6402. Secretary of State as receiving officer

 §6402. Secretary of State as receiving officer 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 ME Rev Stat § 6403 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 715: INTERPLEADER COMPACT|Subchapter 2: PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMPACT|14 §6403. Duties of Governor

 §6403. Duties of Governor 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 ME Rev Stat § 6701 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6701. Recovery of estates by real action

 §6701. Recovery of estates by real action Any estate in fee simple, in fee tail, for life or for any term of years may be recovered by a real action.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6702 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6702. Plaintiff must have right of entry

 §6702. Plaintiff must have right of entry No such action shall be maintained unless, at the time of commencing it, the plaintiff had such right of entry. No descent or discontinuance shall defeat any right of entry for the recovery of real estate.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6703 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6703. Recovery of specific or undivided part

 §6703. Recovery of specific or undivided part The plaintiff may recover a specific part or undivided portion of the premises to which he proves a title, although less than he demanded.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6704 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6704. Writs of possession; judgment conclusive

 §6704. Writs of possession; judgment conclusive 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).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1981, c. 279, §8 (AMD).
14 ME Rev Stat § 6705 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6705. Election by plaintiff to abandon

 §6705. Election by plaintiff to abandon 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 ME Rev Stat § 6706 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6706. Installment payments by defendant

 §6706. Installment payments by defendant At the end of one year, execution may issue for such sum with one year's interest thereon and costs, unless the defendant shall have deposited with the clerk of the court for the plaintiff's use, one year's interest on said sum, and 1/3 of the principal sum, and all the costs, if taxed and filed, and in that case no execution shall issue at the time.   If within 2 years after the rendition of judgment, the defendant pays one year's interest on the balance of the judgment due and 1/3 of the original judgment, execution shall be further stayed. Otherwise it may issue for 2/3 of the original amount of the judgment and interest thereon.   If the defendant, within 3 years after judgment, pays into the clerk's office the remaining 1/3 and interest thereon, having made the other payments, execution shall never issue. Otherwise, it may issue for the 1/3 and one year's interest thereon. The premises shall be held as security for the amount of the judgment, liable to be taken in execution for the amount and interest, until 60 days after an execution might have issued, notwithstanding any intermediate conveyance, attachment or seizure upon execution; and such execution may be extended on said land or any part of it; or it may be sold on execution like an equity of redemption; in either case, subject to the right of redemption as in those cases. An execution or writ of possession may issue at any time within 3 months after default of payment by the defendant, in cases mentioned in this section, although it is more than a year after the rendition of judgment.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6707 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6707. Defendant's remedy if evicted

 §6707. Defendant's remedy if evicted If the defendant or his heirs are evicted by a better title from the land so abandoned to him, and they had notified the plaintiff or his heirs to aid them in their defense against such title, they, their executors or administrators may recover back the money so paid, with lawful interest, of said plaintiff or his representatives; but if no notice was given, the defendant, in an action against the original plaintiff to recover the price paid for the premises, may show that he was evicted by a title better than that of the plaintiff.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6708 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6708. Commitment of waste after judgment prohibited

 §6708. Commitment of waste after judgment prohibited No defendant, after judgment is entered against him for the appraised value of the premises, shall unnecessarily cut wood, take away timber or make any strip or waste on the land until the amount of such judgment is satisfied.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6709 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6709. Disqualification of juror interested in similar questions

 §6709. Disqualification of juror interested in similar questions No person who, as proprietor or occupant, is interested in a similar question shall sit as juror in the trial of a cause when the value of buildings and improvements made on the demanded premises, and the value of the premises, are to be estimated.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6710 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6710. View by jury

 §6710. View by jury Either party may have a view by the jury of the place in question, if in the opinion of the court it is necessary to a just decision. The party moving for it shall advance to the jury such sum as the court orders, to be taxed against the adverse party if the cause is decided against him on the merits or through his default.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6711 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6711. Demand for life estate

 §6711. Demand for life estate If the plaintiff claims an estate for life only in the premises and pays a sum allowed to the defendant for improvements, he or his executor or administrator, at the termination of his estate, is entitled to receive of the remainderman or reversioner the value of such improvements as they then exist; and shall have a lien therefor on the premises as if they had been mortgaged for its payment, and may keep possession until it is paid. If the parties cannot agree on the existing value, it may be settled as in case of the redemption of mortgaged real estate.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6712 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|14 §6712. Impeachment of plaintiff's title deeds

 §6712. Impeachment of plaintiff's title deeds In all actions respecting lands or any interest therein, a title deed offered in evidence may be impeached by the defendant as obtained by fraud, where the grantor, if a party, could impeach it, if the defendant has been in the open, peaceable and adverse possession of the premises for 20 years.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6751 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 2: PARTIES|14 §6751. Joinder of plaintiffs

 §6751. Joinder of plaintiffs Persons claiming as tenants in common or joint tenants may all, or any 2 or more, join in an action for recovery of lands, or one may sue alone.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6752 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 2: PARTIES|14 §6752. Guardians for minors

 §6752. Guardians for minors In such case, if any heir is a minor, the court shall order notice to the guardian, and may appoint a guardian ad litem, if necessary, and direct all necessary amendments in the forms of proceeding.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6801 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 3: DISSEIZORS|14 §6801. Disseizor defined

 §6801. Disseizor defined Every person alleged to be in possession of the premises demanded in such action, claiming any freehold therein, may be considered a disseizor for the purpose of trying the right.
14 ME Rev Stat § 6802 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 3: DISSEIZORS|14 §6802. Defendant ousting plaintiff deemed disseizor

 §6802. Defendant ousting plaintiff deemed disseizor 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 ME Rev Stat § 6851 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL|Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS|Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS|Subchapter 4: SURVEYORS|14 §6851. Court may appoint and protect surveyors

 §6851. Court may appoint and protect surveyors The court may appoint a surveyor to run lines and make plans of lands demanded in a real or mixed action, or in an action in which the title to land is involved, as shown by the pleadings filed, on motion of either party. If he is prevented by force, menaces or fear from performing the duties assigned him, the court may issue a warrant to the sheriff, commanding him with suitable aid to prevent such opposition. In the execution of such warrant, he may exercise all the power pertaining to his office. All persons refusing their aid when called for by him are liable to the same penalties as in like cases.