Some two centuries ago, the General Court enacted a statute previously of little consequence except to the owners of land adjoining the Acushnet River in New Bedford. The statute, one of several hundred "wharfing statutes" enacted in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, permitted the littoral owners of the property to "erect, continue and maintain, wharves parallel with [its] several lots" beyond...
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