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As declared by Chief Justice Shaw, grants by the Colony of Massachusetts, before the ordinance, of lands bounded by tide water did not include any land below high water mark.

- in Shively v. Bowlby, 1894 and 3 similar citations

—"the time when the province charter passed the seals is indicated as the mo ment when... the ordinance became applicable to that part of the state."

- in Reflections on Takings: The Watuppa Ponds Cases and one similar citation

In the territory included within the Plymouth Colony, however, this effect was not brought about until 1691, when the Province Charter took effect, and the Plymouth Colony became a part of the new Province of Massachusetts Bay

- in Notes on Common Forms: A Book of Massachusetts Law and one similar citation

It is, however, the law throughout the whole Commonwealth. "It has been extended to Plymouth, to Nantucket, to the county of Dukes, and to Maine, and this has been done by usage and by judicial decision."

- in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature … and one similar citation

In light of these circumstances, which are supported by competent evidence in the historical record of this case, the trial court did not err in concluding that the Danforth Deed both confirmed existing ownership and granted common and undivided lands.

- in Almeder v. Town of Kennebunkport, 2019 and one similar citation

In so doing, Danforth confirmed land already granted out and granted the remaining common and undivided land that had not yet been conveyed.

- in Almeder v. Town of Kennebunkport, 2019 and one similar citation

—under a grant of land by the Plymouth Colony to certain proprietors defining the line between grantees and the town as being the high water mark and running three miles inland into the woods, starting point mentioned was simply to define the distance grant extended inland and had no reference to the question as to whether it extended to low water mark.

- in LAW OF SEASHORE, WATERS AND WATERCOURSES OF MAINE AND MASSACHUSETTS and one similar citation

—it is held that the demandant in a writ of entry against a tenant who has no title, may rely upon the possession, and need not show title by grant or disseisin of the true owner.

- in The American and English Encyclopedia of Law and one similar citation

—that one being in possession, even if it is not such as would amount to a disseisin of the true owner, may maintain trespass against a mere intruder without right upon that possession, and

- in The American and English Encyclopedia of Law and one similar citation

"In 1909, southern production of print cloth constituted 36 percent of the national total. Fall River's dominance of the market was gone...."

- in Reflections on Takings: The Watuppa Ponds Cases and one similar citation