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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 244. — FORECLOSURE AND REDEMPTION OF MORTGAGES.
- Section 1. Foreclosure by entry or action; continued possession.
- Section 2. Entry without judgment; memorandum or certificate; recording.
- Section 3. Declaration by mortgagees; conditional judgment.
- Section 4. Procedure.
- Section 5. Form of conditional judgments generally.
- Section 6. Form in special cases.
- Section 7. Discharge or release on satisfaction of execution.
- Section 8. Form of action; parties.
- Section 9. Right of entry before breach.
- Section 10. Foreclosure and redemption where entry made before breach.
- Section 11. Mortgages containing power of sale; court order for sale.
- Section 12. Procedure after sale.
- Section 13. Necessary parties.
- Section 14. Foreclosure under power of sale; procedure; notice; form.
- Section 15. Copy of notice; affidavit; recording; evidence.
- Section 15A. Notice to residential tenants — tax collectors or assessorsand water or sewer service providers.
- Section 16. Repealed — 1971, 423, Sec. 22.
- Section 17. Conveyance by mortgagor; effect.
- Section 17A. Limitation of actions.
- Section 17B. Notice of intention to foreclose; necessity; form; notice and affidavit.
- Section 17C. Waiver of provisions of secs. 17A and 17B; validity.
- Section 18. Persons authorized to redeem.
- Section 19. Tender of payment or performance.
- Section 20. Accounting.
- Section 21. Time for tender; suit for redemption.
- Section 22. Suit without previous tender.
- Section 23. Amounts not in dispute; order for payment.
- Section 24. Costs.
- Section 25. Defective tender.
- Section 26. Venue.
- Section 27. Judgment of possession.
- Section 28. Interest.
- Section 29. Execution for possession.
- Section 30. Judgment and execution for balance.
- Section 31. Distribution of money tendered and paid into court.
- Section 32. Intervention.
- Section 33. Survival of right of redemption.
- Section 34. Tender to guardian or conservator.
- Section 35. Opening foreclosure; right of redemption.
- Section 36. Excess received by mortgagee; recovery.
- Section 37. Discharge of mortgages held by commonwealth.
- Section 38. Foreclosure.
- Section 39. Redemption generally.
- Section 40. Action for redemption; jurisdiction; process; payments; discharge.
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