Trial Court of Massachusetts
Land Court Department
3 Pemberton Square, 5th floor
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 788-7470
COMPLAINT FOR VOLUNTARY
WITHDRAWAL OF LAND
from the Registration System
(G.L. c. 185, § 52)
CASE NUMBER
COURT USE ONLY
LCSBQ-VWD-COMPL (11-2018) www.mass.gov/courts/landcourt
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Plaintiffs are all of the owners of the fee simple estate in all of a parcel of land that has been registered
under G. L. Chapter 185. Plaintiffs wish to withdraw the land from the provisions of that Chapter. Plaintiffs
therefore seek endorsement of the Court approving the withdrawal under § 52 of Chapter 185.
Plaintiffs submit with this complaint their executed Notice of Voluntary Withdrawal. The land to be
withdrawn is described in Certificate of Title No. in Book , at Page
issued from the Registry District of
County,
shown on Land Court Plan No.
as follows:
all of the land described in the certificate of title.
part of the land described in the certificate of title, namely:
Plaintiffs seek withdrawal under the following clause in the fourth paragraph of § 52 of Chapter 185.
(i)
The registered land constitutes less than all of the total area of a single parcel or of 2 or more contiguous
parcels in common ownership.
(ii)
The registered land consists of less than 10 percent of the portion of the land area to which an original
certificate of title pertains, the rest of the land area to which such certificate pertains having been
conveyed since the original registration under Chapter 185.
(iii)
The owners of the registered land have submitted the land or satisfy the Court that the owners shall
submit the land to Chapter 183A or 183B or shall create interests in the land to which said Chapter 183B
is applicable under Section 3 of Chapter 760 of the Acts of 1987 or satisfy the Court that the owners
shall create those interests.
(iv)
The registered land is improved with an occupied building not used or occupied as or in connection with,
and not designed or intended for use or occupancy as or in connection with, a 1-to-4 family residential
dwelling.
(v)
Other good cause for withdrawal, as follows:
NOTE: Plaintiffs must include with the Complaint proof that they are entitled to withdraw land from the
Registration System under clauses (i) - (iv). If filing under clause (v), then in the Complaint Plaintiffs must
state specifically why there is good cause for the withdrawal.
Signed under the pains and penalties of perjury,
DATED:
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SIGNATURE OF OWNER OR ATTORNEY
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SIGNATURE OF OWNER OR ATTORNEY
