Oregon Consent To Encroachment - Into Easement
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An easement is a nonpossessory interest in the land of another that entitles the easement holder to limited use of another's land without interference. ORS 105.170 (1). An easement holder is a person with a legal right to use the easement and may include the owner of the land across which the easement passes.
Can You Build a Fence on an Easement? Yes, in most cases, you can build a fence on an easement. Fences are regularly built along or across easements. Homeowners who do this must expect the chance that their fence might be pulled down by a dominant estate (utility company, for example).
Overview. An easement that arises when a landowner conveys a landlocked parcel of land to another. Common law presumes that the grantee has right to pass over the retained property if such passage is necessary to reach the granted landlocked property.
The owner of a negative easement is able to prevent the owner or possessor of the property from using the land in a manner that is described by the terms of the easement. In other words, an easement is a right to use another person's land for a limited purpose or to prevent the use of that land for a specific purpose.
An easement appurtenant is a specific type of easement where two properties are linked together as servient tenement and dominant tenement estates. The servient estate is the estate that allows the easement, while the dominant estate is the one that benefits from the easement.
The holders of an interest in any easement shall maintain the easement in repair.
Easement. An easement is a nonpossessory interest in the land of another that entitles the easement holder to limited use of another's land without interference. ORS 105.170 (1). An easement holder is a person with a legal right to use the easement and may include the owner of the land across which the easement passes.
Dominant estate (also called dominant tenement) refers to the property that uses an easement over another property. For example, if lot A had an easement over lot B to access the highway, lot A would be the dominant estate.
