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Read More - Easements
An easement is a non-possessory right to use another person’s property for a specified purpose. Even though an easement itself does not grant legal title to the underlying land, it comprises a real property interest. The most common easements are normally ingress/egress easements across neighboring parcels of land. The person who benefits from an easement is called the dominant estate, while the property subject to the easement is called the servient estate (or "servient tenement"). There are four types of easements, each categorized by the manner in which they were created: (1) express easement—created by a written instrument, usually an agreement or deed; (2) prescriptive easement—created through a pattern of use, under the same character as adverse possession; (3) necessary easement—established out of a need, usually with a property that is landlocked which otherwise lacks access; and (4) implied easement—easements formed through implied actions of the landowner.
