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2016 Massachusetts General Laws
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
TITLE III REMEDIES RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY
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 14A Foreclosure database; annual report on developments and trends in residential property foreclosures
- Section 15 Copy of notice; affidavit; recording; evidence; effect of legal challenges
- Section 15A Mortgagee taking possession or conveying title; notice
- Section 16 Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec. 22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 35A Right of residential real property mortgagor to cure a default; good faith effort to negotiate for commercially reasonable alternative to foreclosure; response from borrower; affidavit upon initiation of foreclosure proceedings; acceleration of maturity of balance prohibited; notice
- Section 35B Requirement of reasonable steps and good faith effort to avoid foreclosure; criteria; notice of right to pursue modified mortgage; recording of affidavit of compliance
- Section 35C Creditor actions in violation of chapter
- 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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