There's an interesting story in today's Globe about efforts by people in the state's legal community to get the Massachusetts Tr...

Recently I received an email from a homeowner asking if Massachusetts law requires that a mortgage that “is transferred from one compan...

There are three types of joint ownership of real estate in Massachusetts: tenants in common, joint tenants and tenants by the entiret...

The famous Massachusetts and United States Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr once wrote in a decision, “. . .on this poi...

According to Eno and Hovey, Real Estate Law with Forms , a standard Massachusetts real estate deed contains the following elements: ...

One of the most frequent requests received at the registry of deeds is from homeowners seeking a copy of the deed for their house. Dependin...

Going through some old papers, I came upon a copy of a mortgage recorded in 2002 between the property owner and the Clerk of the United Stat...

From the beginning, registries of deeds in Massachusetts have not retained custody of original documents but have copied those documents in ...