The registered proprietor must apply to have the easement cancelled on the grounds of the merger of the tenements. Note From 1.1.1996 an easement is removed if the dominant and servient tenements are consolidated into a single parcel of land by a Deposited plan.
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Easement in Gross. The easement in gross is the counterpart to the easement appurtenant. An easement in gross is owned by a person in his or her private capacity and not in his or her capacity as owner of any particular parcel of property.
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An easement is commonly defined as a nonpossessory interest in another person's land. The nonpossessory nature of an easement is one of its primary -- and potentially confusing -- characteristics. An easement is a property interest that allows the holder of the easement to use property that he or she does not own or possess.
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Easement. An easement is the grant of a nonpossessory property interest that grants the easement holder permission to use another person's land. There are different kinds of easements. If an easement appurtenant is granted, it involves two pieces of land, where one serves as the servient tenement that bears the burden, and the other the dominant tenement, which benefits from the grant of the easement and has permission to use the servient land in some manner.
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Land affected or burdened by an easement is called a servient estate, while the land or person benefited by the easement is known as the dominant estate.. If the easement benefits a particular piece of land, it is said to be appurtenant to the land.
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Easements: Getting Legal Help. Easements give an easement holder the right to use or to prevent the use of property he or she does not own or possess. This places the easement holder and the possessor of the servient estate in the unique position of simultaneously utilizing the same piece of land.
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Easement Appurtenant: An easement held by a person, in his or her capacity as owner of a parcel of property, in another parcel of property. Easement in Gross: An easement held by a person, in his or her personal capacity, in the property of another.
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Easement. A right annexed to land to utilise other land of different ownership in a particular manner not involving the taking of its produce or soil, nor preventing the owner of the other land from utilising that land in a particular manner. The easement must be of a kind that is recognised by law.
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The land that is benefited by an easement appurtenant; the land belonging to the holder of the easement appurtenant. Servient Tenement: The land burdened by an easement, whether an easement appurtenant or an easement in gross. An easement is an interest in land that allows its holder to make or prevent use of property that is legally possessed or owned by another person. Easements can be either affirmative or negative.
http://nationalparalegal.edu/public_documents/courseware_asp_files/realProperty/Easements/IntroductiontoEasements.asp
If the easement only benefits an individual personally, not as an owner of a particular piece of land, the easement is termed in gross.. Most easements are affirmative, which means that they authorize use of another's land.
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define gross easement
The Gross easement is the counterpart to the easement appurtenant. The easement in gross is the counterpart to the easement appurtenant.  Gross easement is the counterpart to the easement appurtenant.