====== Easement ======

An **easement** is a **[[non-possessory right]]** to use another person’s land for a **specific purpose**.

===== Key Characteristics =====
  * Does **not transfer ownership**
  * Grants a **right of use**, not possession
  * Runs with the land (usually)
  * Considered an **encumbrance**
  * May be **affirmative or negative**

===== Types of Easements =====
  * **Appurtenant Easement**
    * Benefits a specific parcel of land
    * Involves a **dominant tenement** and **servient tenement**
    * Transfers automatically with the land

  * **Easement in Gross**
    * Benefits a person or company, not land
    * Common for utilities
    * May be personal or commercial

===== Methods of Creation =====
  * Express grant or reservation
  * Implication
  * Necessity
  * Prescription
  * Dedication

===== Termination of Easements =====
  * Release
  * Merger
  * Abandonment
  * Expiration
  * Destruction of servient property

===== Exam Tip =====
  * Easements affect the **right of exclusion**
  * Easements do **not** give ownership or possession