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Where a town has brought suit to quiet title to its rights in relation to a lake, judgment in the town’s favor should be entered despite a corporation’s attempt to enforce a reversionary interest created by a predecessor in 1958 and not recorded until 2016.
“Land may last forever, but many interests in land do not. Restrictions, for example, are often limited to a duration of 30 years. See G.L.c. 184, 23. Leases by definition grant rights of possession for a fixed or monthly term. See Marchesi v. Brabant, 338 Mass. 790, 791 (1959). And the rule against perpetuities, the bane of law students and currently codified in G.L.c. 184A, places time limits on the vesting of certain reversionary interests. This case concerns the application of G.L.c. 184A, 7, to such an interest.
“In 1958, White Brothers, Inc. (White Brothers) conveyed certain flowage rights of Lake Monomonoc (the Lake),...