For the purpose of avoiding the unnecessary use of words in deeds or other instruments relating to real estate, whether said statutory form or other forms are used, the rules and definitions contained in sections ten to twenty-eight, inclusive, shall apply to all such instruments executed or delivered on or after January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183, § 9
Rules and definitions relating to deeds or other instruments
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