In a rescript opinion issued yesterday in Gentili v. Town of Sturbridge (pdf), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that a municipality’s acquisition of a prescriptive easement over private property ...

Adverse possession and prescriptive easements are legal doctrines which allows a neighbor to acquire a legal right to own or use part of their neighbor’s land even without a written agreement. If a ...

The New World of Prescriptive Easement Cases In their Land Use column, Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio discuss how New York appellate courts determine whether or not a party is entitled to ...

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a son concerned about his 80-year-old mother’s home, which apparently has its driveway a few feet on a neighbor’s vacant lot. He reports his mother has owned ...

Jul. 15—The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday the public may cross a rancher's private property on a road in Quay County under a "prescriptive easement" established by decades of uninterrupted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What Is an Easement? Why You Might Have to Share Your Property For many homebuyers, an easement is anything but easy to understand ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Monday that governmental acquisition of property via a prescriptive easement is not a taking. Property owners impacted are thus not entitled to just compensation.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana House on Tuesday passed a bill amended to add restrictions to prescriptive easements ...

You may think of an easement as just a right of way — that is given over your property — to a utility company for overhead power lines, phone cables or underground water pipes. Many properties have ...

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently decided two cases about prescriptive easements. In the first, the Court held that the provisions of a written easement agreement could be expanded by ...

When you buy a home, the property will undergo a title search to ensure no legal issues are stopping you from becoming the new owner. When you receive the title search, you might see that the property ...

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