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2013 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 33: PROPERTY
Chapter 7: CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
Subchapter 1: ESTATES PASSING- 33 §151. Items covered by deed
- 33 §151-A. Definitions
- 33 §152. Contingent estates
- 33 §153. Sale or mortgage of estates subject to contingent remainders
- 33 §154. -- notice; appointment of next friend of minors
- 33 §155. -- bond of trustees; disposal of proceeds of sale
- 33 §156. Entailments barred by conveyance in fee simple
- 33 §157. Conveyance of greater estate, conveys only interest owned
- 33 §158. Conveyance for life and to heirs in fee
- 33 §159. Conveyances to 2 or more persons
- 33 §160. -- mortgage or trust
- 33 §161. Quitclaim or release
- 33 §162. No estate greater than tenancy at will unless by writing
- 33 §163. Private transfer fee obligations void and unenforceable
- 33 §171. Definitions
- 33 §172. Applicability; exemptions
- 33 §173. Required disclosures
- 33 §173-A. Information provided
- 33 §174. Delivery and time of disclosure; cancellation of contract
- 33 §175. Change in circumstances
- 33 §176. Rights and duties of seller and purchaser
- 33 §177. Liability
- 33 §178. Effect on other statutes or common law
- 33 §179. Effective date
- 33 §201. Priority of recording
- 33 §201-A. Conditions of actual notice
- 33 §201-B. Notice; construction of provisions
- 33 §202. Failure to record, effect of
- 33 §203. Need for acknowledgment
- 33 §204. Deed lost before recording
- 33 §205. Certified copies of deeds recorded in other registries
- 33 §206. Recording by compulsion
- 33 §207. Recording master form
- 33 §208. Indexing
- 33 §209. Incorporating master form
- 33 §210. Recording instrument incorporating master forms
Article 1: COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS
- 33 §251. Appointment; powers
- 33 §252. Legal effect of official acts
- 33 §253. Administration of oaths and depositions
- 33 §254. Qualifications and seal
- 33 §301. Grantor dead or out of State
- 33 §302. Witness dead or absent
- 33 §303. Grantor refusing to acknowledge
- 33 §304. Proof before justice of the peace after summons
- 33 §305. Certification
- 33 §306. -- indorsement of certificate of acknowledgment
- 33 §351. Acknowledgments after commission expired
- 33 §352. Defective acknowledgments
- 33 §353. Miscellaneous defects (REPEALED)
- 33 §353-A. Miscellaneous defects
- 33 §353-B. Defects in plats
- 33 §401. Cutting and sale of trees; order of court
- 33 §402. -- proceeds invested; income appropriated
- 33 §403. -- appointment of trustees; bond
- 33 §451. Rights of aliens
- 33 §452. Deeds and contracts by agents
- 33 §453. Conveyances for use of county
- 33 §454. Church pews
- 33 §455. Agreements to treat building as personal property
- 33 §456. Address of buyer
- 33 §457. Error or omission of mailing address
- 33 §458. Easements or rights-of-way; installation of utility services
- 33 §460. Conveyance of land abutting a road or way
- 33 §461. Prior conveyances
- 33 §462. Preservation of claims by filing of notice within 2 years
- 33 §463. Filing of notice; recording fee
- 33 §464. Persons under a disability; 2-year period not suspended
- 33 §465. Abutters own the centerline of road or way
- 33 §466. -- State and municipal owned roads
- 33 §467. -- public easement acquired over opposite sides of road or way in unequal proportion
- 33 §468. Statutes of limitation not extended
- 33 §469. Liberal construction
- 33 §469-A. Title to proposed, unaccepted ways
- 33 §470. Failure of spouse to join in release of right and interest by descent
- 33 §471. Preservation of claims by filing of notice
- 33 §472. Filing of notice; recording fee; indexing
- 33 §473. Persons under disability; 2-year period not suspended
- 33 §474. Statutes of limitations not extended; bar or release not affected
- 33 §475. Liberal construction
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