Case ID: mass_6/html/0206-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Vaughan and Others, Petitioners, versus The Heirs of James Noble and Others.
    When partition is prayed of an extensive territory, the Court prescribes such public notice as will inform all the inhabitants of the pendency of the application.
    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.
   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 sitting 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 described in said petition, and at such place in each of the several towns and plantations in said territory, where the inhabitants thereof have usually assembled to transact their town and plantation affairs, that they may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted ”