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When looking at plans in a contract or speaking with your conveyancer, you may notice on the plan or hear the word “easements” mentioned.  Let me explain what an easement on a property is.

The legal terminology of an easement is:

An interest in land that allows one person to make use of land owned by another person for a specific reason.  It is a positive benefit to the person who enjoys the easement and a limitation on the ownership of the person whose land is subject to the easement.

So what does that mean? It’s probably easier to explain it by using an example. The most common easement on...

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