2010 Maine Code
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Chapter 205: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
14 §815. Forty years' possession bars action for recovery of land
Part 2: PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
Subchapter 2: REAL ACTIONS
§815. Forty years' possession bars action for recovery of land
No real or mixed action for the recovery of lands shall be commenced or maintained against any person in possession thereof, when such person or those under whom he claims have been in actual possession for more than 40 years, claiming to hold them by adverse, open, peaceable, notorious and exclusive possession, in their own right.
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