{"id":211,"date":"2019-11-24T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=211"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:09","slug":"yardwork-may-be-sufficient-to-establish-adverse-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/11\/24\/yardwork-may-be-sufficient-to-establish-adverse-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Yardwork may be sufficient to establish adverse possession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Massachusetts court has held that hiring a landscaper to regularly maintain a strip of land is sufficient to constitute &#8220;possession&#8221; and can ripen into adverse possession once the statute of limitations runs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2019\/08\/29\/18P0514.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Miller v. Abramson<\/a>, 131 N.E.3 863 (Mass. App. Ct. 2019). This was the case when a line of vegetation formed a natural boundary line sufficient to signal that the adverse possessor claimed the property as their own. This was so even though the line of vegetable was penetrable.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/adverse-possession\/\" rel=\"tag\">Adverse Possession<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts court has held that hiring a landscaper to regularly maintain a strip of land is sufficient to constitute &#8220;possession&#8221; and can ripen into adverse possession once the statute of limitations runs.\u00a0Miller v. Abramson, 131 N.E.3 863 (Mass. App. Ct. 2019). This was the case when a line of vegetation formed a natural boundary line sufficient to signal that the adverse possessor claimed the property as their own. This was so even though the line of vegetable was penetrable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverse-possession"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}