§816. Limitations of actions for uncultivated lands in incorporated places
No real or mixed action for the recovery of uncultivated lands or of any undivided fractional part thereof, situated in any place incorporated for any purpose, shall be commenced or maintained against any person, or entry made thereon, when such person or those under whom he claims have, continuously for the 20 years next prior to the commencement of such action or the making of such entry, claimed said lands or said undivided fractional part thereof under recorded deeds; and have, during said 20 years, paid all taxes assessed on said lands or on such undivided fractional part thereof, however said tax may have been assessed whether on an undivided fractional part of said lands or on a certain number of acres thereof equal approximately to the acreage of said lands or of said fractional part thereof; and have, during said 20 years, held such exclusive, peaceable, continuous and adverse possession thereof as comports with the ordinary management of such lands or of undivided fractional parts of such lands in this State.
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 2: PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
Chapter 205: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
14 §801. Rights of entry and action barred in 20 years
14 §803. Right deemed to accrue
14 §804. Entry for condition broken
14 §805. Accrual of right of entry
14 §806. Action by minister or sole corporation
14 §807. Minors and other disabled persons
14 §808. Death during period of disability
14 §809. Death of tenant in tail or remainderman before end of limitation
14 §810. Type of possession; need for enclosure
14 §810-A. Mistake of boundary line
14 §811. Failure of first action; effect on limitations
14 §812. Acquisition of rights-of-way and easements by adverse possession; notice to prevent
14 §812-A. Dedication of land in the unorganized territory to public use; notice to prevent
14 §812-B. Recording requirements
14 §813. Adverse obstruction on rights-of-way; interruption by notice
14 §814. Trespass on wild lands; notice to quit; record; private roads in unorganized territory
14 §815. Forty years' possession bars action for recovery of land
14 §816. Limitations of actions for uncultivated lands in incorporated places
14 §817. Limitation of actions for breach of covenants; vested interest in 6-year limitations period