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Equitable easements can be created for physical encroachments where the court balances the hardships of the properties and determines an easement is warranted. When determining whether to award an equitable easement, courts utilize the “relative hardship” test. The test is based on the following three factors: 1. The defendant must be innocent.
An equitable servitude is a term used in the law of real property to describe a nonpossessory interest in land that operates much like a covenant running with the land. [1] In England and Wales the term is defunct and in Scotland it has very long been a sub-type of the Scottish legal version of servitudes, which are what English law calls easements.
Easements in English law are certain rights in English land law that a person has over another's land. Rights recognised as easements range from very widespread forms of rights of way, most rights to use service conduits such as telecommunications cables, power supply lines, supply pipes and drains, rights to use communal gardens and rights of light to more strained and novel forms.
Real covenants and easements or equitable servitudes are similar [9] and in 1986, a symposium discussed whether the law of easements, equitable servitudes, and real covenants should be unified. [4] As time passes and the original promisee of the covenant is no longer involved in the land, enforcement may become lax. [10]
An easement that is not registered will be recognised as an over-riding interest according to LRA 2002 Schedule 3, paragraph 3, if known to a person to whom land is sold and if the easement is obvious on a reasonably careful inspection, but only if the easement is acquired at law (not equity) since 13 October 2003. [184]
An easement is a legal arrangement designating land for a specific use, and it isn’t typically a problem. Some properties have conservation easements, for example, which require property owners ...
In Hong Kong, there is a statutory definition of "encumbrance".In Conveyancing and Property Ordinance (Cap. 219) it reads: ""encumbrance" (產權負擔) includes a legal and equitable mortgage, a trust for securing money, a lien, a charge of a portion, annuity, or other capital or annual sum; and "encumbrancer" (產權負擔人) has a meaning corresponding with that of "encumbrance" and ...
Under the common law such restraints are void as against the public policy of allowing landowners to freely dispose of their property. Perhaps the ultimate restraint on alienation was the fee tail , a form of ownership which required that property be passed down in the same family from generation to generation, which has also been widely abolished.