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2011 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 38: WATERS AND NAVIGATION
Chapter 5: GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIVERS AND STREAMS
38 §721. Common law remedy limited

Universal Citation:
38 ME Rev Stat § 721 (2011 through 125th Legis)
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Subchapter 1: MILLS AND DAMS

Subarticle 3: ACTION FOR DAMAGES

§721. Common law remedy limited

No action shall be sustained at common law for the recovery of damages occasioned by the overflowing of lands or for the diversion of the water as before mentioned, except in the cases provided in this chapter, to enforce the payment of damages after they have been ascertained by process of complaint.

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