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MA Gen L ch 184a § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 184a - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|Section 9 - Effect of Act on Validity of Prior Limitations

Section 9. Except as provided in the first sentence of section seven, this chapter shall not be construed to invalidate or modify the terms of any limitation which would have been valid prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
MA Gen L ch 184a § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 184a - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|Section 10 - Application and Construction of Act; Uniformity of Law

Section 10. This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
MA Gen L ch 184b § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 184b - Short Form Terms for Wills and Trusts|Section 1 - Terms; Incorporation by Reference; Copy of Section Defining Term

Section 1. The terms defined in this chapter may be used in any will or trust and, except as otherwise provided in the instrument, shall have the full force, meaning and effect of the words by which they are so defined. Adoption or employment in substance of a defined term in such instrument shall be a sufficient incorporation by reference of the applicable section of this chapter in effect at the date of the execution of the instrument, but this provision shall not preclude other methods or incorporation of any section in part only or subject to such modification as the incorporating instrument may provide. An attorney at law preparing a will or trust who uses a term defined in this chapter shall furnish to the testator or settlor a copy of the section of this chapter by which the term is defined; provided, however, that failure to do so shall not affect the validity of the incorporation by reference.
MA Gen L ch 184b § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 184b - Short Form Terms for Wills and Trusts|Section 3 - Statutory Disability Discretionary Powers

Section 3. The following discretionary powers, which shall be known as the ''Statutory Disability Discretionary Powers'', may be conferred by reference upon any fiduciary, and, unless otherwise provided in the instrument by which it is conferred, shall apply to all distributions to be made under the terms of the instrument or under powers or discretions granted to the fiduciary by the instrument to a minor, to a person under such other age as may be specified in the instrument, or to a person whom the fiduciary determines to be unable to properly care for his property by reason of advanced age, mental weakness or physical incapacity:  The fiduciary may make distribution to any person to whom this discretion is applicable or apply or distribute the same for his benefit or account, or retain all or any part of the same, whether principal or income, in trust for him and thereafter at any time or times distribute part or all to him or apply or distribute the same for his benefit or account. When the discretion hereunder terminates, whether by reason of the age, or otherwise, the fiduciary shall distribute any property retained in trust for such person hereunder to such person, or to his guardian or conservator or to his estate, as the case may be. Such discretion shall not apply to any distribution to which the spouse, surviving spouse or surviving child of the testator or settlor making the instrument is entitled either outright or under a trust or share which qualifies for a marital or orphan deduction under applicable federal tax laws, except that distributions may be made to or applied for the benefit of such spouse, surviving spouse or surviving child, as the case may be.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 2 (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 2 - Justices and Chief Justice

Section 2. The land court department shall consist of 7 justices, including the chief justice, appointed to the land court department. The justice as provided under section 1 of chapter 211B as the chief justice for the land court department, in addition to his judicial powers and duties, shall, subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211, have the power, authority and responsibility of a chief justice as set forth in section 10 of chapter 211B.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 21/2 (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 21/2 - Deputy Court Administrator

Section 21/2. The administrator as provided under section 1 of chapter 211B as the deputy court administrator for the land court department shall, subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211, have the power, authority and responsibility of a deputy court administrator as set forth in section 10 of chapter 211B.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 3 (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 3 - Scheduling of Sessions

Section 3. The court may be held by one judge and simultaneous sessions may be held, either in the same county or in different counties, and shall be so arranged as to insure a prompt discharge of its business.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 4 (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 4 - Processes

Section 4. Processes issuing from the court shall bear teste of the judge, shall be under the seal of the court and be signed by the recorder.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 6 (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 6 - Recorder; Appointment; Powers and Duties

Section 6. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint a recorder, who shall hold office during good behavior, but subject, however, to retirement under the provisions of any applicable general or special law relative to retirement systems. Said recorder shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record-keeping. The chief justice or the recorder may submit any dispute that arises between said chief justice and said recorder, concerning the management and administration of the recorder's office, the duties, powers and obligations of the recorder or a member of the recorder's staff, or the interpretation of the personnel standards provided for under section eight of chapter two hundred and eleven B, to the chief justice of the trial court, who shall, within thirty days, determine the matter. The decision of the chief justice of the trial court shall be binding on the parties. The recorder shall not be involuntarily separated from service as such except in the manner provided by section four of chapter two hundred and eleven. He shall attend the sessions of the court, keep a docket of all causes, and affix the seal of the court to all processes or papers requiring it. The recorder may, subject to the approval of the chief justice of the trial court as to compliance with personnel standards promulgated pursuant to section eight of chapter two hundred and eleven B, appoint deputy recorders, a first assistant clerk and an assistant clerk of the land court department and may designate, with like approval, two employees, having the title of deputy assistant clerk, who shall, under his direction, perform the duties of clerk of court. The recorder shall have the same powers as a clerk-magistrate in the superior court department of the trial court insofar as such powers relate to civil matters and shall have the authority to hear and rule on petitions for tax foreclosure and for redemption from tax titles pursuant to chapter sixty.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 7 (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 7 - Custody and Control of Papers and Documents

Section 7. The recorder shall be under the direction of the chief justice of the land court division and shall have the custody and control of all papers and documents filed with him in any complaint for registration, action or proceeding in said court, and shall carefully number and index them. Said papers and documents may be kept in Boston in the recorder's office, which shall be near the land court. He may, with the approval of the chief justice of the land court department, employ necessary assistants and messengers.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 8 (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 8 - Places Recorder or Deputy Allowed to Act

Section 8. The recorder and any deputy recorder may act in any county, and after land has been registered, may make all memoranda affecting the title and enter and issue certificates of title as provided in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 9 (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 9 - Facsimile Signature of Recorder

Section 9. A facsimile of the signature of the recorder, imprinted by him or by such office assistant as he in writing may designate, on any paper which he is required by law to certify as a true copy, except a copy of a decree for transcription in a registry of deeds, and such facsimile imprinted by the recorder himself upon any writ, summons, order of notice or order of attachment, except executions, shall have the same validity as his written signature.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 10 (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 10 - Registers of Deeds Acting as Assistant Recorders

Section 10. The register of deeds in each district where land has been registered shall have the same authority as the recorder to make memoranda affecting the title of such land, and to enter and issue new certificates of title, and to affix the seal of the court to such certificates and duplicate certificates of title; but in executing the provisions of this chapter, registers of deeds shall be subject to the general direction of the recorder, in order to secure uniformity; and, in the performance of their duties under this chapter, the official designation of registers of deeds shall be assistant recorders for their respective registry districts.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 10a (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 10a - Technical Assistants; Termination

Section 10A. The assistant recorder in any registry, with the approval of the chief justice of the land court department, may appoint one or more technical assistants who shall perform such duties as the court may from time to time assign to them and whose compensation shall be the same as that of the first assistant register of deeds for said registry district. Subject to applicable laws, said assistant recorder, or in the case of abolished counties the state secretary or said assistant recorder, may terminate such technical assistant or assistants unless said chief justice objects in writing within 14 days after the notice of termination.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 11 (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 11 - Oath and Bond of Recorder and Assistant Recorders; Additional Duties

Section 11. The recorder and all assistant recorders shall be sworn before the chief justice of the land court, and a record thereof shall be made. They shall give bond in a sum to be fixed by the court, for the faithful performance of their official duties, before entering upon the same. They may administer oaths to persons appearing before them in matters pertaining to the registration of land, if an oath is required. They shall keep accurate accounts of all money received as fees or otherwise, which shall be subject to examination by the director of accounts, in the same manner as accounts of registers of deeds. The recorder shall pay over quarterly to the state treasurer all such money received by him either directly or through the assistant recorders, except that money so received for the cost of publication of notices and for the payment of services and expenses of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs shall be disbursed directly by the record. In case of the absence of an assistant recorder, the assistant register for the district, or if there is no assistant register, the person acting as clerk in the office of the register of deeds, shall perform the duties of the assistant recorder, who shall be responsible for him.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 12 (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 12 - Examiners of Title; Appointment; Acting for Recorder

Section 12. The chief justice of the land court department may appoint one or more examiners of title who shall be attorneys at law and he may also appoint a chief title examiner who shall perform all the duties of an examiner of title and such other duties in connection with the work of the court as the chief justice or justice may assign. Any deputy recorder appointed under section six, who is designated for the purpose by the chief justice by a writing filed in the recorder's office, shall in case of absence, sickness or disability of the recorder, or if a vacancy exists in the office of the recorder, perform all of the official duties of the recorder. In case of the absence, sickness or disability of both the recorder and any deputy recorder designated to perform the official duties of the recorder, or of the recorder alone, if a vacancy exists in the position of the deputy recorder designated to perform the official duties of the recorder, the chief title examiner under the title of deputy recorder shall perform all of the official duties of the recorder.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 13 (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 13 - Court Officers

Section 13. Upon request of the chief justice, the sheriff of any county other than Suffolk shall assign a deputy to attend the sittings of the land court department in that county. The court administrator, in consultation with the chief justice of the trial court, shall appoint two officers for attendance upon the sessions of said court in Suffolk county.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 13a (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 13a - Stenographers

Section 13A. At the trial of any issue of fact in the land court department the first justice may appoint a stenographer, who shall be sworn and shall attend the trial or such part thereof as the first justice may direct, and perform like duties and receive the same compensation therefor as a stenographer appointed by the superior court who is not on salary; and the sums so payable for his attendance at court and for any transcript of his notes or part thereof furnished to the first justice by his direction shall be paid by the commonwealth, upon the certificate of the chief justice of the land court.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 14 (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 14 - Salaries and Expenses; Practice of Law; Fees

Section 14. The salary of the recorder of the land court department shall be 81.57 per cent of the salary of the chief justice of said department and shall be paid, subject to appropriation, by the commonwealth. The salaries of the deputy recorder and the chief title examiner of said department shall be eighty-three and one-half percent of said recorder's salary and shall be paid, subject to appropriation, by the commonwealth. The salaries of the assistant clerks of said department shall be seventy-seven percent of said recorder's salary and shall be paid, subject to appropriation, by the commonwealth. The salaries of the title examiners of said department shall be paid by the commonwealth in accordance with the job classification and pay plan established, subject to appropriation, by the court administrator.  The recorder, deputy recorder, chief title examiner, title examiners, and assistant clerks shall devote their entire time during business hours to their respective duties and shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in the practice of law.  All salaries and expenses of the court shall be paid by the commonwealth, except the salaries of the assistant recorders and the expenses incurred by them under this chapter and the compensation and expenses of their technical assistants appointed under section ten A, which shall be paid by the respective counties. All fees collected by the assistant recorders, except those received upon the filing of petitions, which shall be transmitted with the petitions to the recorder, shall be paid to their respective counties.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 15 (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 15 - Trial of Causes and Questions of Fact; Jury Trials; Transfer of Actions to Superior Court

Section 15. Except as provided in section sixteen, all cases in the land court shall be tried and all questions of fact finally determined by the court, unless a timely demand for jury trial is made. In actions which are governed by the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure such demand shall be made in accordance with said Rules. In all other actions the defendant with his answer or a plaintiff within ten days after the time limited by law for filing an appearance and answer, or within ten days after the time allowed by the court for filing an answer, may claim a trial by jury. If trial by jury is claimed, issues therefor upon any material question of fact shall be framed in the land court, and within thirty days after the expiration of the time for claiming a trial by jury, except as otherwise provided in section sixteen and in chapter two hundred and thirty-seven, copies thereof and of all other material papers in the case, certified by the recorder, shall be entered by the moving party in the superior court for the county where the land lies for a jury trial thereon. Failure to enter the copies and papers required by this section or section sixteen or by section twenty-three of chapter two hundred and thirty-seven within the times limited by said sections, respectively, shall constitute a waiver of the claim to a trial by jury, and thereafter the superior court shall have no further jurisdiction of the case. Upon the motion of either party in the superior court the cause shall be advanced for speedy hearing, but no matters shall be tried in the superior court except those specified in the issues. Questions of law arising in the superior court may be appealed by any party aggrieved by any opinion, direction, or judgment of the court to the appeals court or, subject to the provisions of section ten of chapter two hundred and eleven A, to the supreme judicial court. Questions of law arising in the land court on any decision, judgment, or decree may be appealed by any party aggrieved thereby to the appeals court or, subject to the provisions of section ten of chapter two hundred and eleven A, to the supreme judicial court. The land court, after any decision or judgment dependent upon questions of law, may report such decision or judgment, with so much of the case as is necessary for understanding such questions of law, for the determination of the appeals court.  The land court may, upon application of either party or upon its own motion, transfer to the superior court any action in which no right, title or interest to land is involved and which is not set forth in section one as being within the exclusive original jurisdiction of the land court.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 16 (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 16 - Appeal From Judgment for Jury Trial

Section 16. At any time before the expiration of thirty days from the entry of a judgment in a case, any party aggrieved by such judgment who files an affidavit in court that he has not received notice of the proceedings by registered mail and that any signature of his appearing on any receipt for registered mail filed with the papers in the case is neither his signature nor signed by one having authority so to do, and that in no other way did he receive actual notice, or have knowledge, of the pendency of the proceedings within the time allowed for filing an appearance and answer, may appeal from said judgment for a jury trial on any question of fact. Within said thirty days after such judgment, issues shall be framed in the land court and the case entered in the superior court for trial as provided in section fifteen.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 17 (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 17 - Certification From Clerk of Superior Court to Land Court; Further Proceedings Before Land Court

Section 17. The clerk of the superior court, after the determination of issues from the land court, shall certify to the land court such determination, which shall be conclusive upon said court as to such issues; but the land court may hear evidence upon other material questions of fact, and arguments upon the cause, before making its decision.
MA Gen L ch 185 § 21 (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 21 - Costs

Section 21. Costs shall be taxed and the collection enforced as in the superior court unless a different provision is made.