General Provisions

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1. In a predial easement, what is the estate burdened by the easement called?
2. Which easements may be acquired by ten-year prescription under Article 620?
3. Does establishment of an easement necessarily transfer ownership of the affected strip to the dominant owner?
4. A servient estate is partitioned into three parcels. Each new owner argues that partition extinguished the easement ove…
5. The dominant owner needs preservation works on the servient land. May she choose a needlessly disruptive method that in…
6. A developer buys the servient lot and plans an important building that the existing easement route would obstruct. He o…
7. A dominant lot enjoying a defined easement is divided between siblings. One sibling proposes moving its place of use an…
8. Distinguish continuous from discontinuous easements and explain why apparentness alone does not always permit prescript…
9. Explain the effect of dividing either the dominant or servient estate on an existing easement.
10. Distinguish ownership of the servient strip from the dominant owner’s rights to preserve and use an easement.
11. Under 623, what can cure absent origin documentation for an easement not acquirable by prescription?
12. Under 624, what may an apparent sign maintained by a common owner become when an estate is alienated, subject to its ex…