Meaning

(law, property law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law, property law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
2. (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
3. (archaic) Easing; relief; assistance; support.
4. (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
5. (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
6. Gratification.

Example Sentences

The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.

Eaſement is a privilege that one Neighbour hath of another, by Writing or Preſcription, without profit; as a Way or a Sink through his Land, or ſuch like.

[page 1] That branch of these accessorial rights which confers merely a convenience to be exercised over the neighbouring land, without any participation in the profit of it, is called, by the law of England, Easements, as rights to the passage of light, air, and water. […] [page 2] The origin of some easements is as ancient as that of property—one tenement may be subjected to the convenience of another by the hand of nature itself—the inferior elevation of one in relation to the other, may subject it to the fall of water from the higher ground.

The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.

The Lake Company actually had an easement – a right to flood some of this land – dating from 1845.

Pacific Telephone had an easement "for the stringing of telephone and electric light and power wires" over the property of Salvaty.

The unrecorded document clearly granted an easement to the hallway and Watson had the document prior to closing.

The curved part of the rail where it joins the newel is called an easement. Often, however, the rail joins the newel without an easement.

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