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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 168

Prescriptive rights of drainage; application of Sec. 167

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 168, Prescriptive rights of drainage; application of Sec. 167, Massachusetts, version 1 as recorded 2026-09-28, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1550141
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Section 168. The preceding section shall not destroy or impair rights acquired by legislative grant prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, or destroy or impair prescriptive rights of drainage or discharge to the extent to which they lawfully existed on that date; nor shall it be applicable to the Merrimack or Connecticut rivers, or to so much of the Concord river as lies within the limits of Lowell.