Massachusetts Lien Release

The Lien You Are Releasing

Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.

Which county is the property in?Property addressTax parcel ID — if it is on the lienRecord owner of the property

Book the lien was recorded in

Page the lien was recorded at

Date the lien was recorded

This instrument says the debt is paid.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 254, § 10 discharges the lien on satisfaction of the debt. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.

The debt secured by this lien has been paid in full.

Where this gets filed: Registry of Deeds. The registry of deeds where the NOTICE OF CONTRACT was filed under which the lien is claimed — that is the anchor § 10 uses, not the registry where the statement of account went. For a § 1 lien with no notice of contract, the registry where the land lies.

None. § 10 is permissive — a lien "may be dissolved" by this notice — with no deadline, damages or fee-shifting. Any $2,500 analogy to the mortgage discharge penalty in ch. 183 § 55 is unsettled, not law.