{"id":393,"date":"2018-07-20T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=393"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","slug":"forged-deeds-cannot-convey-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/07\/20\/forged-deeds-cannot-convey-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Forged deeds cannot convey title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a case involving a claim for a prescriptive easement, the Massachusetts Land Court has affirmed an old rule of law that denies a forged deed any validity whatsoever.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/masscases.com\/cases\/land\/2018\/2018-17-000320-FINDING%20OF%20FACTS.html\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton v. City of Boston,<\/a>\u00a026 LCR 119, 2018 Mass. LCR LEXIS 30 (Mass. Land Ct. 2018). The court also noted that it was a crime to write and record a forged deed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/consumer-protection\/\" rel=\"tag\">Consumer Protection<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/title-issues\/\" rel=\"tag\">Title Issues<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case involving a claim for a prescriptive easement, the Massachusetts Land Court has affirmed an old rule of law that denies a forged deed any validity whatsoever.\u00a0Braxton v. City of Boston,\u00a026 LCR 119, 2018 Mass. LCR LEXIS 30 (Mass. Land Ct. 2018). The court also noted that it was a crime to write and record a forged deed.<\/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":[9,30,10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-estates-and-future-interests","category-real-estate-transactions","category-title-issues"],"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\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}