Grace v. Jordan Marsh Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing original version of 12 V.S.A. § 462 was designed to protect “lands granted . . . for public, pious or charitable uses” from adverse possession claims
• long standing possession was “evidence” that possession was commenced under title and jury should have been instructed, inter alia, “to presume an antecedent grant”
• “If it was necessary in this case to presume a deed from the trustees of the university to establish the defendant’s claim, it would not be established, as the trustees never had any power to convey by deed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).