Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 33 Sec. 501

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
Mortgages of real estate include those made in the usual form, in which the condition is set forth in the deed, and those made by a conveyance appearing on its face to be absolute, with a separate instrument of defeasance executed at the same time or as part of the same transaction.