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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 (2026)

Method of making acknowledgment

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Section 30. The acknowledgment of the execution of a deed or other written instrument required to be acknowledged shall be by 1 or more of the grantors or by any attorneys or representatives executing it on behalf of the grantors. The officer before whom the acknowledgment is made shall endorse upon or annex to the instrument a certificate thereof. Such acknowledgment may be made—

(a) If within the commonwealth, before a justice of the peace or notary public.

(b) If without the commonwealth, in any state, territory, district or dependency of the United States, before a justice of the peace, notary public, magistrate or commissioner appointed therefor by the governor of this commonwealth, or, if a certificate of authority in the form prescribed by section thirty-three is attached thereto, before any other officer therein authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds.

(c) If without the United States or any dependency thereof, before a justice of the peace, notary, magistrate or commissioner as above provided, or before an ambassador, minister, consul, vice consul, charge d'affaires or consular officer or agent of the United States accredited to the country where the acknowledgment is made; if made before an ambassador or other official of the United States, it shall be certified by him under his seal of office.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1930–2021 · leading case: Weiss v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (In re Kelley), 498 B.R. 392 (1st Cir. BAP 2013).
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Weiss v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (In re Kelley), 498 B.R. 392 (1st Cir. BAP 2013). · cites it 2× “That statute provides, in pertinent part: The acknowledgment of a deed or other written instrument required to be acknowledged shall be by one or more of the grantors or by the attorney executing it.”
Lemelson v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n, 721 F.3d 18 (1st Cir. 2013). “The petition alleged, inter alia, that the signatory to the assignment had not appeared before a notary, as required under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 , and that the corporate seal affixed to the assignment was for a MERS entity that did not exist in March 2011.”
Agin v. Green Tree Servicing, LLC (In re Shubert), 535 B.R. 488 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2015). · cites it 2× “09-CV-10988-PBS, 2009 WL 3834002 (D.Mass.2009), the Trustee contends that the acknowledgment of the execution of a deed or mortgage must be made by or on behalf of one or more of the grantors pursuant to Mass.”
HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v. Lassman (In Re Demore), 844 F.3d 292 (1st Cir. 2016). “See Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 (“The acknowledgment of a deed or other written instrument required to be acknowledged shall be by one or more of the grantors or by the attorney executing it.”
HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v. Lassman, 550 B.R. 157 (D. Mass. 2016). · cites it 2× “” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 . No specific form is required by statute.”
Mbazira v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (In re Mbazira), 518 B.R. 11 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2014). “14, 2011) (holding that ”[i]t is true that if the [instrument purporting to impose restrictions on various parcels] was to have been accepted for registration, and to be noted on the Certificate, it required some manner of acknowl *22 edgment compliant with G.L. c. 183, § 30.”);…”
Gordon v. Gordon, 398 N.E.2d 497 (Mass. App. Ct. 1979). · cites it 2× “” For aid in construction we turn to G. L. c. 183, § 30, which provides that the “acknowledgment of a deed .”
In Re Dessources, 430 B.R. 330 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2010). “Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 29 . 31 . Mass.”
US Bank, NA v. Desmond, 15 F.4th 106 (1st Cir. 2021). “1946); Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 . Although a notarized certificate of acknowledgment accompanied Mbazira's mortgage, the space for her name was left blank.”
Lassman v. HSBC Bank USA., N.A. (In re DeMore), 530 B.R. 519 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2015). “Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 provides in pertinent part: “The acknowledgment of a deed or other written instrument required to be acknowledged shall be by one- or more of the grantors or by the attorney executing it.”
DeGiacomo v. First Call Mortg. Co. (In re Reznikov), 548 B.R. 606 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2016). “]” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 30 . An acknowledgment may be made “before a justice of the peace or notary public” who “shall endorse upon or annex to the instrument a certificate thereof.”
Davis v. Meenan, 169 N.E. 145 (Mass. 1930). “G. L. c. 183, § 30, provides that the acknowledgment of a deed shall be by one or more of the grantors and sets forth in the appendix to that chapter the forms which may be used.”
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