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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 7505 (2026)

No waste by part owner without notice

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If any joint tenant or tenant in common of undivided lands cuts down, destroys or carries away trees, timber, wood or underwood, standing or lying on such lands, or digs up or carries away ore, stone or other valuable thing found thereon, or commits strip or waste, without first giving 30 days' notice in writing under his hand to all other persons or to their agents or attorneys, and to mortgagors and mortgagees if any there are interested therein, of his intention to enter upon and improve the land; which notice to such persons interested as are unknown, or whose residence is unknown or who are out of the State may be published in the state paper 3 times, the first publication to be 40 days before such entry; or if he does any such acts pending a process for partition of the premises, he shall forfeit 3 times the amount of damages. Any one or more of the cotenants, without naming the others, may sue for and recover their proportion of such damages.  
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2000–2021 · leading case: Kapler v. Kapler, 2000 ME 131 (Me. 2000).
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Kapler v. Kapler, 2000 ME 131 (Me. 2000). · cites it 3× “See 14 M.R.S.A. § 7505 (1980). Section 7505 explicitly addresses the situation before us today where a co-owner authorized a wood harvest without notifying the other joint tenant.”
Us Bank Nat'l Ass'n as Tr. for Speciality Underwriting & Residential Fin. Trust Mortg. Loan Asset-backed Certificates Series 2006-bc2 v. Thomes (D. Me. 2021). “§ 7505] was intended to provide a cause of action directly between co-owners and to avoid suits such as this which allow a co-owner to sue an innocent agent who relied on the authority of another co-owner”). When viewing the record in the light most favorable to Mr.”
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