Re: (Annual repost) MA needs easement for seashore walks *below* tide line.

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[ From: Ed <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> ]
[ Subject: Re: (Annual repost) MA needs easement for seashore walks *below* tide line. ]
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In article <ad86c1p4e3a8mph70il1tg9blinpdbu5q2@xxxxxxx>, Hugo S.
Cunningham <checkwebsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 29 Jun 2005 15:12:27 -0700, "David Chesler"
> <chesler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hugo S. Cunningham wrote:
> >> Massachusetts is the only State in the Union (apart from Maine,
> >> formerly part of Massachusetts, which inherited the same law) where
> >> oceanside property rights extend out beyond the high water mark, to
> >> the *low* water mark. Property abutters can (and often do) prevent
> >> peaceable citizens from walking along the shore below the high tide
> >> mark.
> >
> > Many years ago I was asked to leave land below the low water mark on
> >some Cape beach. (It was college [summer school], I didn't drive, I
> >have no idea which beach.) Apparently the open-to-the-public beach we
> >were using abutted a private-to-some-subset-of-the-population beach. I
> >was wading, and apparently crossed over the line.
>
> Was the tide out, so that you were below even the low water mark? Or
> might the tide have been partly in, so that you were above the
> low-water mark, even though wet?
>
> > I didn't know the law,
>
> I still don't,



This may help <http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=1681>

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