Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, Inc. v. Bay-Courte Edgartown, Inc.

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• statute designed to correct defects, irregularities, and omissions in procedure or in instrument of taking
• limitations statute [G. L. c. 60, § 80C, see infra] cannot cure defect based on want of title
• “[A] quiet title action requires the plaintiff ‘not merely to demonstrate better title to the locus than the defendants possess, but requires the plaintiff to prove sufficient title to succeed in its action.’ ”
• Section 80C “is designed to correct defects, irregularities, and omissions in procedure or in an instrument of taking. The statute cannot supply title which did not exist at the time of taking” [emphasis in original]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).