Meanings And Statutes

Question 1

What is an easement?

Answer 1

A right to cross or otherwise use someone else’s land for a specified purpose. Examples of easements include, rights if way, rights of water, rights of light and rights of support.

Question 2

Dominant teniment

Answer 2

Land that has the benefit of the easement

Question 3

Dominant owner

Answer 3

The owner of the land that benefits from the easement

Question 4

Servient tenement

Answer 4

Land that bears the burden of the right

Question 5

Servient owner

Answer 5

The owner of the land that bears the burden of the easement

Question 6

Legal easement by statute

Answer 6

An easement is a right in R.E.M. Which is capable of being legal
(LPA 1925 s.1(1))

Question 7

Legal easement by deed

Answer 7

LPA 1925 s.52(1) by deed

And registered LRA 2002 S.27(2)(d)

Question 8

Equitable easement

Answer 8

LP(MP) A 1989 s.2

Question 9

LPA 1925 s.62

Answer 9

A conveyance of land, having houses or other buildings thereon, shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey, with the land, houses, or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars, areas, courts, courtyards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages, lights, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights, and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof, or, at the time of conveyance, demised, occupied, or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to, the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof.