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A metal plaque on the sidewalk of New York City to declare that the crossing onto the private property is a revocable license to protect it from becoming an easement by prescription [13] Easements by prescription, also called prescriptive easements, are implied easements granted after the dominant estate has used the property in a hostile ...
The easement contains pipes that supply water to 360,000 residents. The problem is that those pipes are now nearly 100 years old, so a rupture could happen at any time, resulting in untold damages.
Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.
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Perhaps the first owner of your house granted your neighbor access to a dock on your property in perpetuity, or the city has retained an easement to access power lines that run across the back ...
If a trespass is actionable and no action is taken within reasonable or prescribed time limits, the landowner may forever lose the right to seek a remedy, and may even forfeit certain property rights in the case of adverse possession and easement by prescription. Trespass may also arise upon the easement of one person upon the land of another ...
The possession of an easement by prescription is usually not adverse. However, Barron's Dictionary of Real Estate Terms (6th Ed.) adds that, once easement by prescription has been acquired, the use of the land may continue despite the protests of the land's titleholder. Davemcarlson 01:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
A profit (short for profit-à-prendre in Middle French for "advantage or benefit for the taking"), in the law of real property, is a nonpossessory interest in land similar to the better-known easement, which gives the holder the right to take natural resources such as petroleum, minerals, timber, and wild game from the land of another. [1]