Legal Opinion
Vaughan v. Heirs of Noble
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 15, 1810PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This was a petition for partition of a parcel of land in the county of Lincoln, known by the name of Brown’s right, described as a tract eight miles wide, and twenty-five miles long. — The solicitor-general, who presented the petition, on moving for an [ * 253 ] order of notice to all concerned, * suggested that the tract described in the petition comprehended several townships and parts of townships, which contained several thousand inhabitants.
1Opinion of the Court
Whereupon the Court passed the following order, viz.: —
“ Ordered that the petitioners give public notice to all concerned, to appear at the next Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Wiscasset, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the first Tuesday of June next, by publishing said petition, and this order thereon, three weeks successively, in the Columbian Centinel and Portlana Gazette, the last publication to be thirty days, at least, before the *207sitting of said Court; and also by posting up copies of said petition and order at each of the places of public worship on the territory…
2Cited by1 opinion
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