Easements
An easement is a right which a person has over land owned by someone else. Easements are normally attached to the land rather than to a person and can be considered to last in perpetuity.
Examples of easements include:
- Rights of way.
- Right to light.
- The right for underground services to pass beneath the land of a neighbouring property.
- Right of support.
- The right to draw water.
An easement can be created by:
- Express grant, for example, it may be set out in a conveyance deed or a transfer deed.
- Necessity, for example, if there is only one means of access between a site and a public highway.
- By prescription, i.e. the act is repeated for a period of at least twenty years.
Easements can be extinguished in several ways:
- Agreement between the parties in the form of a deed.
- By implied release, for example it has not been used for a long period of time.
- Where the character of the dominant land has changed.
- By limitation of time, if a limitation was agreed.
- By a change in law.
Easements differ from wayleaves, which are temporary agreements typically used by utilities companies to allow them to install and maintain equipment on privately owned land in return for payment to the landowner and occupier.
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
- Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992.
- Building survey.
- Burdens.
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
- Deed of easement.
- Dominant estate.
- Due diligence.
- Encumbrances.
- Land register.
- Property rights.
- Restrictive covenants.
- Right to light.
- Right of support.
- Rights of way.
- Rights over land.
- Right to a view.
- Right to access land.
- Servient estate.
- Tree rights.
- Trespass.
- Wayleave.
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