Phoenix Arizona Abandonment of Easement
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Patent Easements were created by the Federal Government pursuant to the Small Tract Act of 1938 to provide a corridor for roadway and utilities through the small tracts (properties) that were conveyed to private ownership.
A prescriptive easement transfers the right to use property that is owned by another, but title to the property remains with the original owner. To establish a prescriptive easement requires open, notorious, hostile and continuous use of the land for a ten-year period.
-An easement is extinguished where it has been imposed for a limited period, or acquired on condition that it shall become void on the performance or non-performance of a specified act, and the period expires or the condition is fulfilled.
The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and ruled that, even if the easement does not expressly provide for a duty to repair or maintain the easement, the owners of the easement have the shared duty to repair and maintain the easement. Freeman, 226 Ariz. 242 at 250.
In Arizona, absent express language regarding the duty to repair or maintain an easement, the easement owners share the obligation. This means that easement holders who incur expenses can ask other easement holders to pay some of the costs associated with maintaining or repairing the easement.
There are eight ways to terminate an easement: abandonment, merger, end of necessity, demolition, recording act, condemnation, adverse possession, and release.
In fact, less than one-half of Arizona land is privately held, so it is common that landowners may be landlocked and need an easement from state land. It is also possible that a private landowner will be landlocked and need an easement from a neighboring landowner.
Merger of Easement and Land: Easements can be terminated by merger. Under the doctrine of merger, if one party acquires the property subject to and benefited by an easement. The easement will have been said to merge with the other rights held by the owner.
A prescriptive easement is a legal right enjoyed over another's freehold property and which is obtained through long use. It is similar to adverse possession, but in this case relates to a right to use another person's property in a particular way rather than claiming ownership of the land.
For example, Johnny bought property that did not have access to a public road, but he used the private gravel road of his neighbor to reach a public road for ten years. A court may grant him a prescriptive easement if the owner of the other property did not ask him to stop using the private road.
