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What is a negative easement?

Bar Exam Prep Real Property Easements What is a negative easement?
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Legal Definition

A negative easement entitles the holder to force the servient estate possessor to refrain from engaging in an activity on the servient estate.

Traditionally, negative easements only for light, air, lateral and subjacent support, and flow of an artificial stream. Today, negative easements are simply restrictive covenants.

Plain English Explanation

A negative easement is an easement that allows someone to force someone on a property to not do something, or refrain from doing something.

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