Chapter 12: Adjacent Property Rights

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Chapter 12 Adjacent Property Rights

• Lecture Outline

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Boundary Disputes

• Division fences and party walls
• Encroachment
• Nuisance
• Water Rights
• Runoff damage
• Water related terms

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Support

• Lateral support
• Subjacent support

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Easements

• Servient tenement
• Dominant tenement
• Maintenance of easement
• Easement in gross
• Affirmative and negative easements
• Creation of easements
• Easement by grant
• Easement by reservation
• Easement by prescription

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Easements (cont.)

• Easement by implication
• Easement by necessity
• Easement by eminent domain
• Easement by estoppel
• Termination of easements
• License