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Statutes > Maine > Title38 > Title38ch5sec0 > Title38sec659Title 38: WATERS AND NAVIGATION
Chapter 5: GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIVERS AND STREAMS
Subchapter 1: MILLS AND DAMS
Article 1: ERECTION AND FLOWAGE RIGHTS
Subarticle 2: RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES
§659. --damages
Damages caused by flowage of lands from which timber or other property shall have been removed under section 658 shall be assessed as though there had been no severance, and the amount paid for such timber or other property with interest to the date of the judgment shall be credited thereon, provided the owner of the land shall have the right to elect whether his damages shall be assessed for flowage as of the time of taking or of flowing.
