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Easement
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Wisconsin Trial Lawyers Blog
How Do Easements Affect Real Estate Transactions and Litigation?
By GRGB Lawyers
By Attorney Christopher M. Hayden Real estate transactions can be very complicated, and there are multiple types of legal issues that buyers and sellers will want to be aware of.…
Pillar and Post
The Importance of Knowing The Right Way to Prepare Legal Descriptions in a Right-of-Way Transaction in Texas
By Zach Bernard
Under Texas law, a blanket easement is “[a]n easement without a metes and bounds description of its location on the property.”[1] It is also considered an easement that covers the…
Real Property Probate & Trust Law Blog | Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section
Dealing with the Expiring Perpetual Easement Problem
Easements can and do expire in Wisconsin as a matter of law. Even if they are “perpetual.” Even if they are in use. Even if they provide access.Consider This ScenarioJill…
SCOV Law
Arbitrary Arbitration Agreement?
Easement? I don’t need no stinkin’ easementKnaresborough Enterprises, LTD v. Dizazzo, 2021 VT 1By Andy DelaneyThere’s nothing like lake access to get neighbors’ hackles up. This opinion hails from the shores of…
Blaneys Appeals
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 4-8, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon and Happy New Year! Coming out of the holiday season, this past week was a very…
Lancaster Law Blog
Easing into Easements: PA Expands Access to Broadband Internet
On October 29, 2020, Governor Wolf signed House Bill 2438, Expanding Broadband Access with Existing Infrastructure, into law. This new bill will make it easier for rural residents of Pennsylvania…
Land Use Developments
Supreme Court Decides to Hear Important Property Rights Case Addressing Whether Time-Limited Easements Are a Physical Taking Under Per Se Rules
On November 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order granting certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. The question presented in the successful cert petition is “whether the…
PropertyProf Blog
The Uniform Easement Relocation Act Becomes Official!
By Chris Odinet
Just in from the reporter himself, John Lovett (Loyola-NOLA Law): the final version of the Uniform Easement Relocation Act was officially released this week. The act itself, as well as the…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
County May Abandon Public Easement Rights to Prevent Unauthorized Use of Road
The Third Appellate District determined that Placer County met relevant statutory requirements when it partially abandoned public easement rights in a road originally intended to be used only for emergency…
Land Use Developments
Court Holds That County’s Abandonment of Public Road Easement Rights Did Not Violate Brown Act, Was Supported by Substantial Evidence, and Did Not Create Takings Liability
On August 17, 2020, in Martis Camp Community Association v. County of Placer, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case Nos. C087759 and C087778), the Third District Court of Appeal addressed several…