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Public easements, such as for sidewalks or utility lines, are created to benefit the public as a whole. This is likely the type of easement TVA will pursue, and is generally permitted in Tennessee.
The easement contains pipes that supply water to 360,000 residents. The problem is that those pipes are now nearly 100 years old, so a rupture could happen at any time, resulting in untold damages.
Perhaps the first owner of your house granted your neighbor access to a dock on your property in perpetuity, or the city has retained an easement to access power lines that run across the back ...
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.S. 825 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled a California Coastal Commission regulation which required private homeowners to dedicate a public easement along valuable beachfront property as a condition of approval for a construction permit to renovate their beach bungalow unconstitutional.
Fuel gas pipe easement. Sidewalk easement. Usually sidewalks are in the public right-of-way. View easement. Prevents someone from blocking the view of the easement owner, or permits the owner to cut the blocking vegetation on the land of another. Driveway easement, also known as easement of access. Some lots do not border a road, so an easement ...
Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.
Originally deeded to the City in 1931 by Alden Freeman, the 30-foot (9.1 m) wide public easement has been illegally impeded or fashioned to appear as a private driveway by neighborhood homeowners, intermittently since 1950. [26] [27] [28]
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