Property Law

Prescriptive Easement

/ preh-SKRIP-tiv EEZ-ment /

Definition

An easement acquired by long-term, open, hostile, and continuous use.

Used in Context

“The prescriptive easement arose from twenty years of road use.”

Etymology

◈ Latin: praescribere, to write before

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