1953 City Solicitor Opinion on Merger of LotsLUKE F. RYAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TELEPHONE 358
100 MAIN STREET
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
May 8, 1953
Mr. Bernard Vaughn
11 Plymouth Avenue
Florence, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Vaughn:
The matter you discussed with me is a situation where
the title and ownership of several distinct contiguous
parcels of land meet in the same persons, vis: you and your
wife. When this happens, all boundary lines, easements, etc.
between the several parcels of land are extinguished.
Clift . vs. White, 12 N.Y. (2..Kern)
519, 527
This principle of merger by unity of title has always
been recognized by the Massachusetts Courts. See Atwater
vs. Bodfish, ll Gray 150 (1858) where the Supreme Judicial
Court of It4assachusetts held that even a right of way
established` for over twenty years 'as extinguished by unity
of possession and title of several adjacent lots in one of
the Parties. It is still the law in Massachusetts.
Rice vs.. Vineyard Grove Co.
270 Nta!sss-. 81, 86 (1930)
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Ver - truly ours,
L'FR /bcv LUKE F. RYAN.
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