Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 185, § 68 (2026)
Registration of mortgage
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1928–2015 · leading case: Mbazira v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (In re Mbazira), 518 B.R. 11 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2014).
Mbazira v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (In re Mbazira), 518 B.R. 11 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2014). “Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 185, § 67 . . Mass. Gen.”
Malaguti v. Rosen, 160 N.E. 532 (Mass. 1928). “In 1925, Malaguti, purporting to act under the power to him, executed a mortgage on the property to each of the defendants, and each defendant received a mortgagee’s duplicate certificate issued by the Land Court in accordance with the provisions of G. L. c. 185, § 68. In the…”
Lassman v. HSBC Bank USA., N.A. (In re DeMore), 530 B.R. 519 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2015). “at 20 (citing Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 185, § 68 ). . In Mbazira, the court noted: Unlike the recorded land system, there is no express requirement in the statutory provisions governing registered land that a deed must be acknowledged as a prerequisite to registration.”
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