{"id":774,"date":"2014-07-11T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-07-11T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:50:18","slug":"no-prescriptive-easement-for-underground-sewer-pipe-because-the-use-was-not-open-and-notorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/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":"

The Massachusetts Land Court has held that no prescriptive easement can arise no matter how long a sewer pipe has traversed a neighbor’s property because the non permissive use was not “open and notorious” and there were no other indications that the pipe was there. 143-145 Nahant Rd, LLC v. Mastoras,<\/a> (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},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Massachusetts Land Court has held that no prescriptive easement can arise no matter how long a sewer pipe has traversed a neighbor’s property because the non permissive use was not “open and notorious” and there were no other indications that the pipe was there. 143-145 Nahant Rd, LLC v. Mastoras, (Mass. Land Ct. 2014), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18740,13325,13333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements-2","category-servitudes","category-trespass-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-cu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}