Easement — definition?
A proprietary right to limited land use.
Dominant Tenement — role?
Benefiting land over which easement is exercised.
Servient Tenement — role?
Burdened land that bears the easement.
Positive Easement — function?
Allows doing something on servient land.
Negative Easement — function?
Restricts certain activities on servient land.
Creation of easements — methods?
Express, implied, long user, statutory.
Re Ellenborough Park — criteria?
Benefit to land, separate ownership, capable of grant, connected to use.
Easement in Gross — definition?
Easement held by a person, not attached to land.
Surcharge Argument — concern?
Potential for excessive burdens on servient land.
Clogs on Title — concern?
Easements in gross may complicate land titles.
Dominant land — benefit?
Gains rights that enhance its use or value.
Servient land — burden?
Bears the easement’s restrictions or use.
Separate Occupation — necessity?
Required for easements to exist.
Accommodating the Land — purpose?
Easement must benefit the land, not just owner.
Implied grant — basis?
Necessity, common intention, Wheeldon v Burrows.
Easement of Necessity — when?
Landlocked or unusable without access.
Legal easement — creation?
By deed, full proprietary right.
Equitable easement — creation?
In equity, often informal, less enforceable.
Registration — importance?
Ensures easements are binding and enforceable.
Overriding interest — effect?
Binds purchaser even if unregistered.
Extinction — how?
Release, abandonment, common ownership.
Abandonment — meaning?
Intent to permanently relinquish easement.
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1. Which law facilitates the automatic transfer of certain easements into full legal rights upon land conveyance?
2. Which of the following best describes a key property characteristic of easements?
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