Town of Lancaster v. Foley

The town, on July 3, 1980, filed a petition for registration (G. L. c. 185) of land taken by it many years earlier for nonpayment of taxes. Part had been taken in 1963 from predecessors in title of the Foleys (see note 1) by judicial foreclosure (“1963 foreclosure”) under G. L. c. 60, §§ 65, 68 & 69. Another portion was the subject of administrative proceedings (concerning land of low value, G. L. c. 60, §§ 79 to 80B) involving a predecessor of the Wells group (see note 1). These proceedings were completed in 1945 (“1945 proceedings”).

After a report upon the registration petition by a Land…