0 the legal right to cross or use someone else's land for a particular purpose:
1 the use of someone else's property or land for a stated reason:
The most commonly used easement is one that allows the underground services of one property to pass beneath the land of a neighbouring property.
The grant could also be used for acquiring protective easements along the creek.
The suit claims that the developer misled the neighbours into granting an easement to dig part of a parking garage under their property.
The map shows those counties in California where farmland is protected by easements.
But consider, then, the case of someone who must surrender an easement over his property to someone who claims it as of prescriptive right.
The result of the combined zoning setbacks and utility easements is a buildable area in which the house literally cannot move an inch.
Their registration carries with it features of an easement - the enjoyment of rights over another's land.
On either side of the arteries there was provision for 3-metre wide tree-lined pedestrian paths, plus a 9-metre wide easement for carriages.
Though we seek some easement, there is no thought in our minds that we should do less than our fair share.
