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.
Massachusetts Easement for Access to Property
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This form is an Easement or Right-of-Way for Access to Property. The form provides that an easement is granted for the ingress and egress to, from, upon, and over the property described in the agreement. The form also provides that the grantee may construct a permanent street or road on the property.
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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.
The difference between an easement and a right of way is right of way is a type of easement. It gives a specific individual or a group of people a private right of way to cross the property. Or, a public right of way grants the general public the right to cross the land and use it as a passageway.
Some examples of easements are: Utility Easements. ... Access Easements. ... Negative Easements. ... Drainage Easements. ... Prescriptive Easements. ... Easements by Implication. ... There are several ways to terminate an easement, including but not limited to: ... Legal issues abound with easements.
Right of Way - A right of way is publicly owned area reserved for transportation purposes. Adjacent land from private owners may be required to construct, or reconstruct, highways or bridges within the right of way.
To establish a prescriptive easement, a person must prove open, notorious, adverse, and continuous or uninterrupted use of land for a period of not less than twenty years. This is less than the standard to establish a claim of title by adverse possession, which requires that the use be exclusive.
Merger doctrine: Generally, an easement is terminated when the ownership of the easement and ownership to the land affected by the easement become owned by the same person. Prescription: The interference with any element necessary to acquire an easement by prescription will terminate the easement.
The obligation to maintain the easement falls on the owner of the dominant estate. That means that any repair or maintenance costs are the responsibility of the easement holder, not the owner of the servient estate. Of course, the two parties can enter into an agreement to share these expenses.
Drainage easements allow for one lot to drain its storm water onto another or into a detention pond.
