Declaration of Easement with Common Private Drive including Rights and Responsibilities
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There are usually two core principles of Georgia easement law: The easement holder's use of the land cannot exceed the scope and the purpose of the easement. The property owner cannot interfere with the easement holder's rights.
Georgia law allows a party to obtain a private way (or easement) over the land of another through a process known as prescription (also sometimes called adverse possession). See OCGA Section 49-4-40 et seq. This requires seven years' uninterrupted use through improved lands.
Creation of Easements in CT By Prescription ? Under Connecticut law, an easement by prescription will be found upon a showing by the claimant that his use of the easement has been open, visible, and continuous for a period of fifteen years and made under claim of right.
Generally, the owner of any easement has a duty to maintain the easement. If the easement is owned by more than one person, or is attached parcels of land under different ownership, each owner must share in the cost of maintaining the easement pursuant to their agreement.
The Georgia Institute of Real Estate provides six such methods of easement termination: Release: The owner of the dominant estate agrees, in writing, to terminate the easement. Merger: One party takes ownership of both properties. Expiration: The initial reason for the easement no longer exists.
(b) The owner of any residential real property that benefits from an easement or right-of-way, the purpose of which is to provide access to such residential real property, shall be responsible for the cost of maintaining such easement or right-of-way in good repair and the cost of repairing or restoring any damaged
(a) The owner of any easement in the nature of a private right-of-way, or of any land to which any such easement is attached, shall maintain it in repair.
448, 71 S.E. 891 (1911). To acquire a prescriptive right to a private way over land, it is necessary to show the uninterrupted use of a permanent way, not over 15 (now 20) feet wide, kept open and in repair for seven years.