Easements: What is it?

Easements: What is it?

1. Re Ellenborough Park

   • Dominant/servient tenement
   • Diversity in occupatio
     • Canham v Frisk: easement suspended if owned by same person
   • Right must accomodate dominant tenement
     • Unless a profit a prendre
   • Capable of forming subject matter
     • Capable grantee/granor
       • 18yrs of over and of sound mind
       • Right sufficiently definite
         • 'wander freely' Re Ellenborough Park
         • 'protection from the weather' Phipps v Pears
         • 'good view' Aldred
         • 'privacy' Browne v Flower
         • 'TV signal' Hunter v Canary Wharf
   • Be analogous to existing easements
   • Place no positive burden on servient owner
     • Exception of Jones v Price
   • Not totally exclude servient owner
     • If a right amounts to possession rather than mere use it will be considered too excessive
       • Copeland v Greenhalf
       • Grigsby v Melville

2. Commercial easements

   • Hill v Tupper
     • has to be sufficiently connected to land
   • Moddy v Steggles
     • benefited pub located on DT
   • Platt v Crouch
     • easement for benefited DT

3. Car Parking

   • London & Blenheim Estates Ltd v Ladbroke Retail Park
     • Test of whether it would leave servient owner without any reasonable use of land
   • Batchelor v Marlow
     • RIght of use was too excessive
       • Curtailed altogether for intermittent periods
   • Moncrieff v Jamieson
     • Right of access amounts to right to park