Ch 40 Easement: Running or personal

Question 1

Easement

Answer 1

The right to use another’s property for a specific purpose

Question 2

Ingress and egress

Answer 2

Access to a property by its owner directly from publicly dedicated streets or by using the right to traverse a portion of another’s land using an easement.

Question 3

Dominant tenement

Answer 3

The property benefiting from an easement on a Servient tenement

Question 4

Servient tenement

Answer 4

A property burdened by a license or easement.

Question 5

Apurtenant easement

Answer 5

A type of easement which is incidental to the ownership and belongs to the property which benefits from its use.

Question 6

Easement in gross

Answer 6

And easement which belongs to an individual and is not appurtenant to a property

Question 7

Solar easement

Answer 7

And easement restricting an owner’s ability to maintain in provement’s interfering with a neighbor solar energy system.

Question 8

Conservation easement

Answer 8

A voluntary conveyance of the right to keep land in its natural or historical condition to a conservation organization or government agency