Chapter 185 - THE LAND COURT AND REGISTRATION OF TITLE TO LAND
- Section 185:1 - Jurisdiction of land court; place of sittings; sales; rules and forms of procedure
- Section 185:2 - Justices; administrative head
- Section 185:2 1/2 - Deputy court administrator
- Section 185:3 - Scheduling of sessions
- Section 185:3A - [Effective Until 3/1/2026] Permit session of the land court department; jurisdiction; transfer of actions; assignment of cases; case management; mediation
- Section 185:3A - [Effective 3/1/2026] Permit session of the land court department; jurisdiction; transfer of actions; assignment of cases; case management; mediation
- Section 185:4 - Processes
- Section 185:6 - Recorder; appointment; powers and duties
- Section 185:7 - Custody and control of papers and documents
- Section 185:8 - Places recorder or deputy allowed to act
- Section 185:9 - Facsimile or electronic signature of recorder
- Section 185:10 - Registers of deeds acting as assistant recorders
- Section 185:10A - Technical assistants
- Section 185:11 - Oath and bond of recorder and assistant recorders; additional duties
- Section 185:12 - Examiners of title; appointment; acting for recorder
- Section 185:13 - Court officers
- Section 185:13A - Stenographers
- Section 185:14 - Salaries and expenses; practice of law; fees
- Section 185:15 - Trial of causes and questions of fact; jury trials; transfer of actions to superior court
- Section 185:16 - Appeal from judgment for jury trial
- Section 185:17 - Certification from clerk of superior court to land court; further proceedings before land court
- Section 185:21 - Costs
- Section 185:22 - Filing of writs, complaints, bills and pleadings
- Section 185:23 - Filing and indexing of final judgments and executions in county where land lies
- Section 185:24 - Reference to examiner; examination and report
- Section 185:25 - Powers of land court
- Section 185:25A - Power of land court to enforce orders, sentences, judgments and decrees; contempts
- Section 185:26 - Complaints for registration of title
- Section 185:26A - Complaints for confirmation of title without registration
- Section 185:27 - Filing of petition; memorandum relating to petition; duties of assistant recorder
- Section 185:28 - Form and content of complaint
- Section 185:29 - Content of complaint; land bounded on public or private way
- Section 185:30 - Complaint made subject to existing recorded mortgage or lease
- Section 185:31 - Inclusion of two or more parcels; joinder
- Section 185:32 - Amendments
- Section 185:33 - Plan of land and muniments of title; filing; withdrawal; further survey
- Section 185:34 - Additional facts in complaint; additional papers
- Section 185:35 - Agent for nonresident plaintiff
- Section 185:36 - Transactions dealing with land after filing of complaint; record of disposition of case
- Section 185:37 - Reference to examiner to search records and investigate facts; report; notice of report to plaintiff
- Section 185:38 - Publication of notice of filing of complaint
- Section 185:39 - Return day of notice; mailing of copies; posting of copies
- Section 185:40 - Appointment of guardian ad litem; compensation
- Section 185:41 - Answer
- Section 185:42 - General default; order; judgment confirming title
- Section 185:43 - Hearing of contested cases; default of persons not appearing; reference to examiner; report; compensation of examiner
- Section 185:44 - Dismissal; withdrawal
- Section 185:45 - Judgment of confirmation and registration; opening of judgment; remedies of aggrieved persons
- Section 185:46 - Encumbrances affecting certificates of title
- Section 185:47 - Contents of judgment of registration
- Section 185:48 - Transcription of judgment in district where land lies; owner's duplicate certificate; land lying in more than one district
- Section 185:49 - Original and transfer certificates
- Section 185:51 - Subdivisions; recordation of plan; verification
- Section 185:52 - [Effective Until 2/2/2025] Perpetuation of registration; withdrawal
- Section 185:52 - [Effective 2/2/2025] Perpetuation of registration; withdrawal
- Section 185:53 - Prescription, adverse possession or right of way by necessity
- Section 185:54 - Evidentiary effect of original certificate or copies thereof
- Section 185:55 - Contents of certificate of title
- Section 185:56 - Recorder's duties relating to indexes and records
- Section 185:56A - Complaints for confirmation of title; application of chapter
- Section 185:57 - Dealings by owner; registration as act of conveyance
- Section 185:58 - Notice of registering, filing or entering
- Section 185:59 - Interests less than estate in fee simple; registration
- Section 185:60 - Form of memorandum; presentation of doubtful questions to court
- Section 185:61 - Information concerning grantee and others appearing on instrument; endorsement of changes
- Section 185:61A - Address of property affected
- Section 185:62 - Registrations procured by fraud; remedies
- Section 185:63 - Assistant recorder's entry book; processing of instruments; public inspection of records; duplicates and copies
- Section 185:64 - Procedure to convey fee
- Section 185:65 - Procedure to convey part of land described on certificate
- Section 185:66 - Statement of encumbrances or claims on new certificate
- Section 185:67 - Authority to mortgage
- Section 185:68 - Registration of mortgage
- Section 185:69 - Discharge
- Section 185:70 - Foreclosure
- Section 185:71 - Registration of leases or notices of leases
- Section 185:72 - Procedure to register trust
- Section 185:73 - Trusts with powers of sale, mortgage, etc.
- Section 185:74 - Proceedings on appointment of new trustee
- Section 185:75 - Implied or constructive trusts; filing of statement
- Section 185:76 - Registration of land held in trust
- Section 185:77 - Burdens and incidents attaching to registered land
- Section 185:78 - Attachments and liens; filing and registration of order
- Section 185:80 - Filing of instruments evidencing continuation, reduction, discharge or dissolution
- Section 185:81 - Applicability of laws relating to attachment on mesne process
- Section 185:82 - Endorsement of plaintiff's attorney upon writ
- Section 185:83 - Registration of order continuing, reducing or dissolving attachment on mesne process
- Section 185:84 - Enforcement of liens
- Section 185:85 - New certificate to person claiming under execution
- Section 185:86 - Filing and registration of memorandum of proceedings affecting land; registration of judgment or decree
- Section 185:87 - Certificate of manner of disposal
- Section 185:88 - Registration of judgment
- Section 185:89 - Registration of execution or writ of seisin
- Section 185:90 - Registration of certificate of judgment in writ of dower
- Section 185:91 - Registration of decrees
- Section 185:92 - Registration of judgment in partition proceedings or proceedings for assignment of spouse's statutory share
- Section 185:93 - Registration of prior mortgage or lease with decree for partition
- Section 185:94 - Registration of notices in insolvency and copies of decrees
- Section 185:95 - Registration of discharge
- Section 185:96 - Entry of new certificate upon reversion
- Section 185:97 - Entry of new certificate upon transfer by descent or devise; notice; hearing; memorandum of pendency of settlement of estate
- Section 185:98 - Right of probate court to license sale or mortgage; new certificate or memorandum of registration
- Section 185:99 - Assurance fund; payment; amount
- Section 185:100 - Custody; investment; annual report
- Section 185:101 - Grounds for recovery from fund; exhausting other remedies; continuance of action to recover from fund to await result of tort action
- Section 185:102 - Defendants in action to recover from fund
- Section 185:103 - Recovery upon judgment
- Section 185:104 - Deficiencies in fund
- Section 185:105 - Subrogation rights
- Section 185:106 - Application and investment of income of fund
- Section 185:107 - Limitations upon liability and amount of compensation
- Section 185:108 - Limitations upon time of commencement of actions
- Section 185:109 - Evidence of value of land, estate or interest
- Section 185:110 - Power of attorney; dealing with registered land; filing of letters of attorney
- Section 185:112 - Statement alleging adverse right or interest
- Section 185:114 - [Effective Until 2/2/2025] Changes to certificate of title upon registration book; grounds for motion to change
- Section 185:114 - [Effective 2/2/2025] Changes to certificate of title upon registration book; grounds for complaint
- Section 185:115 - Filing and entitling of petitions, etc.
- Section 185:116 - Mailing of notice
- Section 185:117 - Sectional plans; authority of court
- Section 185:118 - Term of imprisonment for fraudulent conveyance