Easement and agreement between two properties for a right of way and restrictions for use, access and maintenance of a driveway and parking lot.
An easement gives one party the right to go onto another party's property. That property may be owned by a private person, a business entity, or a group of owners. Utilities often get easements that allow them to run pipes or phone lines beneath private property. Easements may be obtained for access to another property, called "access and egress", use of spring water, entry to make repairs on a fence or slide area, drive cattle across and other uses. The easement is a real property interest, but separate from the legal title of the owner of the underlying land.
In the case of a driveway easement, it allows the person who is the beneficiary of the easement to cross the "servient" property. The land which receives the benefit of the easement is called the "dominant" property or estate. A driveway easement may be created by recording a deed that states, for example, that one neighbor owns the driveway to the halfway point, but has an easement or right of way to use the remainder; however, the adjoining home owns the other half of the driveway, with a right-of-way with respect to the portion the neighbor owns. An easement may be claimed by prescription for the use of the driveway. This requires proof that your neighbor willingly abandoned his use of the driveway during the adverse period when you and your predecessor in title enjoyed the exclusive use of the driveway. Easements should describe the extent of the use, as well as the easement location and boundaries. For example, if an easement is created for the driveway for one house, the owner of the easement cannot turn his house into a hotel with many cars travelling over the easement if the easement was intended for use by a single family.
Shared Driveway Laws In Massachusetts
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(15) Obstructing Driveways is Prohibited. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers in front of a public driveway or private driveway or road without the consent of the owner of the driveway.
Adverse possession is granted when one person makes open and notorious use of another person's property for a period of 20 or more continuous years. The common law of Massachusetts states that the use of the property must have been open, notorious, adverse, and exclusive for those 20 years.
Never block or allow your visitors to block the shared driveway, and make it impossible for your neighbour to use it. If you wish to a gate, wall or fence anywhere along the perimeter or at either end of the shared driveway, you should gain permission from your neighbour.
Easements are the legal right to use someone else's property in a certain way. When someone uses land in Massachusetts a manner that is open, notorious, not with the permission of the owner, and continuous for a period of at least 20 years, they may acquire a prescriptive easement under Massachusetts G.L. c. 187, § 2.
Shared driveway rights Generally, a shared driveway is owned by all parties with the section of the driveway a party uses owned by them. However, the maintenance of the entire driveway area should be shared between all parties.