Easements Real Estate

An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the land of another, B".

An easement is the grant of a nonpossessory property interest that grants the easement holder permission to use another person's land.An affirmative easement gives the easement holder the right to do something on the grantor of the easement's land, such as travel on a road through the grantor's land.

An easement is a limited right to use another person's land for a stated purpose. Examples of easements include the use of private roads and paths, or the use of a landowner's property to lay railroad tracks or electrical wires.

There must be a dominant and servient tenement. The easement must accommodate the dorminant tenement. The dorminant and servient tenements must be owned or occupied by different persons. The easement must be capable of forming the subject matter of the grant e.g. there must be a capable grantor or grantee.

An easement is a limited right to use another person's land for a stated purpose. Examples of easements include the use of private roads and paths, or the use of a landowner's property to lay railroad tracks or electrical wires.

Easements can be created in a variety of ways. They can be created by an express grant, by implication, by necessity, and by adverse possession.

Give the document a simple title: Grant of Easement is sufficient. Identify the parties. You need to explain who the parties are to the agreement. The person granting the easement to his property is the Grantor and the person gaining access to the property is the Grantee.

An easement in gross is an easement that attaches a particular right to an individual or entity rather than to the property itself.