Just because an ancient law lets you boat on a big Massachusetts lake doesn't necessarily mean you can build a dock on it
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today told a man who owns property on a lake in Webster that just because he has access to a gravel path that goes down to the lake and just because state law dating to the Colonial Ordinances of 1641-1647 permit him to put a boat on the water doesn't mean he can build "a large, trident-shaped dock" in the lake at the end of the path - right in
Source: universalhub.com