Laconia v. Morin

The Province Road, of which the locus is a part, was laid out about 1770 in accordance with the provisions of acts of the provincial legislature passed in 1763 and 1765. 3 N. H. Laws 338, 351. The age of the highway suggests that the public acquired only an easement of passage over the property that was taken. Hening’s Digest, 781. The provision by the legislature (3 N. H. Laws 351) that, after the layout of the Province Road should be determined by the committee, the proprietors of the several towns should at their own expense clear the way and make it passable for teams “thro their…