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Understanding the Scope and Transferability of Express Easements

This document outlines the key concepts related to express easements, including their scope, transferability, and the rights of both dominant and servient tenants. It highlights the provisions that control the terms of easement deeds, the balancing test applied when an easement is silent, and factors determining the reasonableness of the dominant tenant's use. Additionally, it covers the implications of implied and prescriptive easements, the use of easements by servient tenants, and the rules concerning the transfer of easements, both in appurtenant and in gross contexts.

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Understanding the Scope and Transferability of Express Easements

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  1. Scope and Transferability

  2. Express Easements • Terms of Easement Deed provisions control

  3. Scope of Express Easements • Terms of Easement, but if • Easement Silent, then applyRule of Reason – a balancing test: benefit to dominant tenant vs. burden on servient tenant

  4. Scope of Express Easements • Factors to determine if dominant tenant’s use is reasonable: • Did use occur before the easement? • Did use occur after easement granted without complaint? • What is the purpose of the easement? • How much did dominant tenant pay for the easement? • Should change in circumstances be considered?

  5. Scope and Transferability[continued]

  6. Scope of Implied Easements • Circumstances viewed from a reasonable perspective

  7. Scope of Prescriptive Easements • Original adverse use becomes basis for applying the rule of reason.

  8. S.S. Kresge Co. v. Winkelman Realty Jefferson alley 6 5 8 7 Plaintiff 2d 3d 1 2 3 4 Defendant Washington

  9. Use of Easement by Servient Tenant • May continue to use and enjoy but • May not interfere with dominant tenant’s use.

  10. Use of Easement by Servient Tenant • May grant overlapping easements but • New easements cannot unreasonably interfere with original easement. • Original easement may be made exclusive.

  11. Use of Easement by Servient Tenant • Generally, servient tenant may not move the location of the easement.

  12. Use of Easement by Servient Tenant • If dominant tenant wants easement maintained or repaired, dominant tenant must perform the maintenance. • Covenants to repair, however, may be coupled with an easement.

  13. Use of Easement by Servient Tenant

  14. Sakansky v. Wein

  15. Transfer of Easements • Follow express terms of easement, if any.

  16. Transfer of Easements • Burden -- If easement silent: • Burden not severable from servient land. • The easement “runs with” the land and burdens new owners and lessees.

  17. Transfer of Easements • Benefit -- If easement silent: • Appurtenant – Benefit runs with the land and benefits the new owner or lessee. • Cannot transform an appurtenant easement into an in gross easement without consent of servient tenant.

  18. Transfer of Easements • Benefit -- If easement silent: • In gross – different approaches • Common law = no transfer allowed • Modern law = transferred allowed if commercial

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