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“‘The success or failure of a party claiming adverse possession is not determined by the subjective intent or the motives of the adverse possessor.’” Maddock, 176 N.H. at 190 (quoting Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007)).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 44 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A&T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 42 (2007) (we will not guess what the drafters of the ordinance might have intended or add words that they did not see fit to include).

“In order to obtain title by adverse possession, the adverse possessor must prove, by a balance of probabilities, twenty years of adverse, continuous, and uninterrupted use of the land claimed so as to give notice to the owner that an adverse claim is being made.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 38 (2007) (“The resolution of conflicts in the evidence and determination of issues of fact are functions of the trier of fact.” (quotation omitted)).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A&T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 41 (2007) (“Moreover, we will not guess what the drafters of the ordinance might have intended, or add words that they did not see fit to include.”).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 35 (2007).

However, as the plaintiffs correctly observe, “the question on appeal is not whether the court could have interpreted the evidence differently; it is whether there is sufficient evidentiary support for the interpretations and findings the trial court reached.” See Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 36, 38 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 35 (2007) (“Where a party fails to demonstrate that it raised an issue before the trial court, the issue is not preserved for our review.”); In the Matter of Birmingham & Birmingham, 154 N.H. 51, 56 (2006) (observing that self- represented litigants are bound by the same procedural rules that govern parties represent

Accordingly, because the wife has failed to demonstrate that she raised this issue before the trial court, see Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 35 (2007) (holding that “[w]here a party fails to demonstrate that it raised an issue before the trial court, the issue is not preserved for our review”), and because a decision by the trial court cannot be plain error “[w]hen the [governing] law is not clear at the time of trial and remains unsettled at the time of

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 40 (2007).

5 Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 36 (2007) (quotation omitted); see Gill v. Gerrato, 156 N.H. 595, 597 (2007); Mahoney, 150 N.H. at 151; Williams v. Babcock, 116 N.H. 819, 822 (1976).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 35 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 40 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

“Because public roads are discontinued by town vote, and such actions are recorded, the best evidence of discontinuance is the official record.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 37 (2007) (quotation and ellipsis omitted).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 38 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

“If the findings can reasonably be made on all the evidence, they must stand.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 38 (2007) (quotation omitted).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A&T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 34 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

“We accord deference to a trial court’s findings of historical fact, where those findings are supported by evidence in the record.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Products, 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Absent actual notice by the dispossessed party of the adverse possession of his or her land, “[t]he law requires more than occasional, trespassory maintenance [of another’s property] in order to perfect adverse title; the use must be sufficiently notorious to justify a presumption that the owner was notified of [the claim].” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 34 (2007); see Mastroianni, 158 N.H. at 383-84.

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 46 (2007).

“The propriety of affording equitable relief rests in the sound discretion of the trial court to be exercised according to the circumstances and exigencies of the case.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 46 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 40 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Id.; Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 46 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 41 (2007).

“Where a wall has been erected on either or both sides of a road, its evidentiary value is important.” Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 36 (2007) (quotations omitted).

Id; see Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 36 (2007) (whether a public highway has been created is a question of fact).

Blaghrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 46 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 33 (2007).

Given the broad discretion that trial courts enjoy in the management and supervision of pretrial discovery, see Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A&T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 40 (2007), we see no reason to rule that the trial court erred by holding to its discovery deadline.

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 35 (2007); In the Matter of Hampers & Hampers, 154 N.H. 275, 287 (2006).

Blagbrough *687 Family Realty Trust v. A & T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 40 (2007).

Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. A&T Forest Prods., 155 N.H. 29, 46 (2007).

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