Easement Law Principles
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What is an essential requirement for an easement?

  • It must be used for a commercial purpose
  • It must have a dominant and servient tenement with diverse ownership (correct)
  • It must be used for a particular purpose
  • It must provide a direct benefit to the owner
  • What is the primary purpose of an easement?

  • To impose an obligation on the servient tenement
  • To provide a benefit to the land (correct)
  • To restrict the use of land
  • To transfer ownership of land
  • What is an example of an easement?

  • A right to park on someone else's land (correct)
  • A right to use someone else's land for farming
  • A right to sell someone else's land
  • A right to build on someone else's land
  • What is a key characteristic of an easement?

    <p>It is a legal right over someone else's property</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a requirement for the creation of an easement?

    <p>The right must be sufficiently certain</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main limitation of an easement?

    <p>It can only be used for the purpose intended when it was created</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the 'Jelbert v David' case in relation to easements?

    <p>It turned an easement into a campsite</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the requirement for the diversity of ownership in relation to easements?

    <p>The dominant and servient tenements must have different owners</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the 'Copeland v Greenhalt' case in relation to easements?

    <p>It showed that an easement can be used to block a road</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must be sufficiently certain in the grant of an easement?

    <p>The right being granted</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary concern of an easement?

    <p>The benefit of the land</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic of an easement?

    <p>A right over someone else's property</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the 'Philips v Pear' case?

    <p>It established the requirement of dominant and servient tenement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the limitation of an easement?

    <p>It must be used for the same purpose it was intended</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the consequence of an easement that prevents the use of land?

    <p>It is invalid and cannot be enforced</p> Signup and view all the answers

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