Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy real estate, including in the form of a house and the land it sits on, it's your private property to do with as you ...

The New World of Prescriptive Easement Cases In their Land Use column, Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio discuss how New York appellate courts determine whether or not a party is entitled to ...

In an important decision for owners of waterfront property, a divided Appeals Court panel has ruled in a case of first impression that where registered land expands by accretion, the owner need not ...

A reader recently wrote to learn what to do about an undisclosed home easement problem. She and her husband hired a contractor to build a backyard swimming pool. As the contractor's backhoe operator ...

Adverse possession and prescriptive easements are legal doctrines which allows a neighbor to acquire a legal right to own or use part of ...

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a son concerned about his 80-year-old mother's home, which apparently has its driveway a few feet on a neighbor's vacant lot. He reports his mother has owned ...

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently decided two cases about prescriptive easements. In the first, the Court held that the provisions of a written easement agreement could be expanded by ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana House on Tuesday passed a bill amended to add restrictions to prescriptive easements ...

The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in a Kootenai County road-easement case that already has prompted a change in state law, but still has left plaintiff Brent Regan without access to a ...