Topic
Easement
193 published works
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Alexandria Boat Club Wins A Little Bit
This blogger in National Eminent Domain described the fight between the Royal Dominion Boat Club and the City of Alexandria over the last four years. The Virginia Supreme Court provided…
PropertyProf Blog
New York City’s Strangest Vacant Lots
By propertyprof
A super-fun article in the New York Times looks at a catalogue of near-useless slivers of land that the city is trying to unload:The origins of odd lot shapes —…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
U.S. Misses Title In Eminent Domain
The United States government thought that it could simply acquire irrigation district property when it decided to move a fence line. The mistake is that the irrigation easement is simply…
PropertyProf Blog
Taylor on Implied Easements
By propertyprof
Greg Taylor (Monash - Australia) has posted Easements Implied in a Grant — Away with ‘Continuous and Apparent’ (Monash University Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In Wheeldon v. Burrows,…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Easement Agreements Are Tricky
The dune holdouts allegedly are claiming that the type of language included in the easement does not bar the dominant State, being the State of New Jersey, the opportunity to…
Land Use Prof Blog
Conservation Covenants in England and Wales
This summer, many of us conservation easement research types received emails from the Law Commission for England and Wales. The Law Commission is similar to the Uniform Law Commission here…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
Land Court Sets Width and Grade of Long Unused Easement
In its 2012 decision in Cater v. Bednarek, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) upheld a Land Court decision that the plaintiffs' easement had not been extinguished by abandonment or estoppel, even though it had not been cleared or…
inversecondemnation.com
Wisconsin: You Broke It, You Bought It
Here's the latest from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In Waller v. American Transmission Co., LLC, No. 2013AP805 (July 16, 2013), the court held that when a partial taking for an easement…
New Jersey Law Blog
New Jersey Governor Tells Beachfront Owners to Sign Easement for Dunes
Is Governor Christie seeking to bully property owners into giving up rights without just compensation? It is well accepted that beachfront dunes help to protect properties and people from storm…
inversecondemnation.com
Tail Gunner Christie: What’s Next, The Pillory And The Stock?
If this article -- Christie tells beachfront owners to sign easement for dunes or face ridicule -- accurately relays the entire context of the situation, then something is seriously off…