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EASEMENTS

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  • Encubrances that affect the physical condition or use of property.
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Easement Appurtenant

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  • Easment Appurtenant: One party benefits and one party burdened.
  • Servient Premises: tract which is burdened by the easement.
  • Dominant Premises: tract which benefits.
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Easement in Gross

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  • Easement in Gross: An easement that does not benefit a particular parcel.
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Affirmative Easements

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  • A easement in which the owner of the dominant premises can use the servient premises.
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Negative Easements

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  • An easement in which the owner of the servient premises is prohibited from doing something that would otherwise be lawful.
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Creating Easements

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  • Express Grant or Reservation
  • Implied Grant or Reservation
  • Prescription
  • Condemnation
  • Neccessity
  • Dedication
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Express Grant or Reservation

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  • Easement created by deed or written agreement.
  • Reservation is selling land and reserving in the deed an easement in the portion retained.
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Implied Grant or Reservation

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  • An easement created because a court would consider that the owner intended to create one.
  • Must be obvious and prior use must have been continuous.
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Prescrption

(Adverse Possession)

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  • A person who makes use of another person’s land for 30-60 years.
  • Use must be adverse (without owner’s consent).
  • Use must be continuous.
  • Use must be uninterrupted.
  • Use must be visible.
  • Use must be open.
  • Use must be notorius.
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Condemnation

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Neccessity

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  • With landlocked land, a right of way by neccessity is created by implied grant over the remaining land of the seller.
  • No other conditions are required.
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Termination of an Easement

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  • Express Release
  • Merger
  • Abandonment: non-use is insufficient evidence of intent to abandon.
  • By Terms of Original Easement.
  • Termination of Purpose.
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RESTRICTIONS

Public Restrictions

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  • PEET: Police, Eminent Domain, Eschete, Taxes
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Private Restrictions

Deed Restrictions

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  • Imposed by developers like in Zinnia.
  • Imposed by private landowners on the deed during conveyance.
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RIGHTS OF ADJOINING OWNERS

Encroachments

Lateral and Subject Support; Subsidence

Party Walls

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  • Lateral and Subject Support: Each owner has the right to have his land supported in its natural condition by the land of his neighbor.
  • Subsidence: lowering of the land surface elevation.