2 (effective Jan. 31, 1977); see Darling v. Augusta Mental Health Inst., 535 A.2d 421, 424 (Me.1987). With this change, the Legislature became vested with the authority of the sovereign to consent to be sued in tort. See id. [¶ 17] Notwithstanding the demise of common law governmental tort immunity, recently we reaffirmed the related, but distinct, common law rule that a party cannot assert a claim of title by adverse possession or prescriptive easement against a governmental entity. Sandmaier, 2005 ME 126, ¶¶ 7, 8, 887 A.2d at 518-19; see also Loavenbruck v. Rohrbach, 2002 ME 73, ¶ 12, 795 A.2d 90, 93 (stating that a party may not assert a claim of adverse possession against a municipality absent statutory authorization); Town of Sedgwick v. Butler, 1998 ME 280, ¶ 6, 722 A.2d 357, 358 (<HOLDING>). The assertion of a prescriptive easement
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