Practice question
A developer buys the servient lot and plans an important building that the existing easement route would obstruct. He offers, at his own expense, a different route proven equally convenient and causing no injury to any entitled user. The dominant owner insists that relocation is legally impossible in every circumstance. Which is correct?
- The developer may relocate to any route, however harmful
- Article 629 permits a change at the servient owner’s expense when its inconvenience or important-works condition and equal-convenience/no-injury safeguards are met
- Any sale extinguishes the easement
- The developer may simply block the route without replacement
- Relocation requires automatic acquisition of the dominant lot
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 629: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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