Easements

4. The tracts of land are “united” and owned by one person again.
6. Gives the right to use the land for a specific purpose to whomever owns a parcel of land the easement benefits.
7. A right granted by a servient owner for another person to enter or perform an act on the servient land.
8. Adverse continuous use of the land for the statutory period ends the easement.
13. An easement by necessity terminates as soon as the necessity ends.
15. When the government exercises its eminent domain power to take the land.
17. The parties voluntarily terminate easement through a deed.
18. When the original land was divided, the easement was necessary to the enjoyment of land because no other access was available; not merely a convenience.
19. When a party has used the land in an actual, continuous, open, adverse, notorious, exclusive way under claim of right for the statutory period.

1. A ST cannot deny the DT use of the easement after the ST has orally allowed the DT to use the easement and DT made improvements in reliance on the agreement.
2. An easement written into a document, often a deed, which should be recorded.
3. The easement ends automatically upon the occurrence of some event or upon expiration of the stated period.
5. When the original land was divided, the easement was apparent and has had continuous use.
9. A right that a non-owner has over a piece of real property.
10. Non-possessory right to use or cross over another person’s property for a specific purpose.
11. An easement is given up and never used again.
12. Forbids a landowner from doing something on his own land that might harm a neighbor.
14. Benefits the easement owner personally rather than in connection with land use.
16. When the ST reasonably relies on a statement or representation by the DT which ends the easement.