A recent decision by the United States Bankruptcy Court for Massachusetts dealt with the sufficiency of the acknowledgement of a mortgage. T...

I’ve compiled some statistics on our volume of electronic recordings. Since we activated the system in June 2005, we have recorded more than...

On numerous occasions I’ve written about National Lumber v Lombardi, 64 Mass App 490 (2005) a case in which the Massachusetts Appeals Court ...

At the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, the Grantor and Grantee Indexes from 1976 to the present are available in a single, searchable com...

The last of the electronic recording demonstrations for registry personnel was today at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds. Monday’s was ...

Yesterday I travelled to Springfield for the first of three regional meetings of the state’s registers of deeds on the topic of electronic r...

An early draft of the Formatting Standards contained a prohibition on recording documents that contained a “watermark” but the final version...

A lawyer recently asked about the proper wording on a deed that was conveying a house to a same sex married couple who wanted to hold as ten...

I have long been amazed by the nonchalance the Bar displays with regard to the “National Lumber” decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court...

Those of you who come to the registry and use our public search computers are familiar with our electronic version of the pre-1976 indexes. ...

Today we introduced our new indexing project to a group of registry employees. Commencing next week, we will begin indexing documents record...

A name is never physically removed from a deed. To "take someone's name off of a deed" means conveying that person's inter...

"Put another name on my deed" means that you want to make someone else a a co-owner of your property. To do this, you must convey...

One of the assumptions about electronic recording that I’ve been operating under is that for the system to reach a mature, fully utilized st...

Last week, the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds began accepting deeds submitted electronically with excellent result, I’m told. Plymouth ha...

Earlier today I spent some time with other Massachusetts registers and representatives of ACS, Browntech, Ingeo, LandData and Simplifile dis...

At a recent gathering of all of the state’s registers of deeds, we received updates on the state of electronic recording around the Commonwe...

Earlier this week at the Fall Register of Deeds meeting, we discussed how to move forward with electronic recording. Right now, Lowell has b...

About 30 people attended the Simplifile electronic recording seminar this past Tuesday at the DoubleTree Hotel in Lowell. Simplifile’s presi...

This should be the last post to the Blogger interface for the LowellDeeds Blog. We've completed our transition to a new blog interface ...