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An abutter is a person (or entity) whose property is adjacent to the property of another. In jurisdictions such as Massachusetts, [1] New Hampshire, [2] and Nova Scotia, [3] [4] it is a defined legal term.
The neighbor will also be strictly liable for damage to buildings on the landowner's property if the landowner can show that the weight of the buildings did not contribute to the collapse of the land. If the landowner is unable to make such a showing, the neighbor must be shown to have been negligent in order for the landowner to recover ...
A profit can be appurtenant (owned by an adjacent landowner, and tied to the use of the adjacent land) or in gross. Appurtenant. An appurtenant profit may only be used by the owner of the adjacent property. A properly recorded profit will remain even if the ownership of the land upon which the profit exists changes hands. In Gross.
For example, an affirmative easement might allow land owner A to drive their cattle over the land of B. A has an affirmative easement from B. Conversely, a negative easement might restrict land owner A from putting up a wall of trees that would block the adjacent land owner B's mountain view. A is subject to a negative easement from B.
Ownership is the basis for many other concepts that form the foundations of ancient and modern societies such as money, trade, debt, bankruptcy, the criminality of theft, and private vs. public property. Ownership is the key building block in the development of the capitalist socio-economic system. [1]
“As an adjacent property owner, 52nd & Brooklyn seeks to intervene in the Lawsuit to preserve its right to protect its interests in the Lawsuit,” the motion to intervene states. “As a direct ...
There are two main views on the right to property in the United States, the traditional view and the bundle of rights view. [6] The traditionalists believe that there is a core, inherent meaning in the concept of property, while the bundle of rights view states that the property owner only has bundle of permissible uses over the property. [1]
A dominant estate (or dominant premises or dominant tenement) is the parcel of real property that has an easement over another piece of property (the servient estate).The type of easement involved may be an appurtenant easement that benefits another parcel of land, or an easement appurtenant, that benefits a person or entity.