{"id":545,"date":"2014-07-11T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=545"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","slug":"no-prescriptive-easement-for-underground-sewer-pipe-because-the-use-was-not-open-and-notorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2014\/07\/11\/no-prescriptive-easement-for-underground-sewer-pipe-because-the-use-was-not-open-and-notorious\/","title":{"rendered":"No prescriptive easement for underground sewer pipe because the use was not open and notorious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts Land Court has held that no prescriptive easement can arise no matter how long a sewer pipe has traversed a neighbor&#8217;s property because the non permissive use was not &#8220;open and notorious&#8221; and there were no other indications that the pipe was there.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/masscases.com\/cases\/land\/2014\/2014-12-465786-DECISION.html\" target=\"_blank\">143-145 Nahant Rd, LLC v. Mastoras,<\/a>\u00a0(Mass. Land Ct. 2014), 2014 WL 2548094,\u00a042 Mass. Lawyers Weekly 1879 (July 7, 2014).\u00a0With no easement, the use was likely a trespass although that was a question on remand.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/easements\/\" rel=\"tag\">Easements<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/trespass\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trespass<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Land Court has held that no prescriptive easement can arise no matter how long a sewer pipe has traversed a neighbor&#8217;s property because the non permissive use was not &#8220;open and notorious&#8221; and there were no other indications that the pipe was there.\u00a0143-145 Nahant Rd, LLC v. Mastoras,\u00a0(Mass. Land Ct. 2014), 2014 WL 2548094,\u00a042 Mass. Lawyers Weekly 1879 (July 7, 2014).\u00a0With no easement, the use was likely a trespass although that was a question on remand.<\/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":[29,35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements","category-servitudes","category-trespass"],"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\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}