Massachusetts prescriptive easement law

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 187, § 2; ch. 260, § 21

What actually decides a claim here

• •Twenty years of uninterrupted, open, notorious, adverse use.
• •A recorded notice under ch. 187, § 3 prevents the acquisition of prescriptive rights.
• •Registered (Land Court) land cannot be taken by prescription.

Related terms

General educational reference only. Prescription periods and their exceptions change, and several states set the period by case law rather than by statute. Read the linked official code and consult a licensed attorney in that state before relying on any of it.