In this form, the owner of an easement terminates his ownership of the easement in favor of the owner of the real property on which the easement was located. This form is a generic example that may be referred to when preparing such a form for your particular state.
Kansas Terminating or Termination of Easement by a General Release
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These methods of termination are abandonment, merger, prescription, end of necessity, demolition or destruction, marketable title statutes, misuse, estoppel, and death of the holder of an easement in gross.
The public right of way is property dedicated to the city for public infrastructure like roadways, storm sewers, sidewalks and streetlights. The state also allows utility providers to use the public right of way for their facilities.
Examples of a major encroachment would be extending a building over property lines or an overhanging tree branch that could potentially cause serious injury.
Some of the most common forms of easements are travel easements and utility easements. A travel easement is the right for another individual to cross real estate not owned by them. Usually this is for the purpose of accessing their own real estate.
An easement grants to the holder a right to use land owned by another. Easements that grant usage rights are affirmative easements, while easements that restrict the use of one's own property are negative easements. Easements also differ in the way they are created and in how they are passed.
60-503. Adverse possession. No action shall be maintained against any person for the recovery of real property who has been in open, exclusive and continuous possession of such real property, either under a claim knowingly adverse or under a belief of ownership, for a period of fifteen (15) years.
An easement can be terminated by estopple if the easement holder shows an intent to abandon and the owner of the servient tenement spends money in reasonable reliance on the easement holders representations.