Undefined Easements (2015)

1.0 MCLE Credit in Professional Practice

This presentation will explain “Undefined Easements” and explore thorny issues such as:

* How do you locate or relocate an express grant or reservation of an easement that does not contain "detailed dimensional specifications?"

* What happens when an easement lacks reference to metes and bounds in the grant, exact distances and measurements, or specific measured references to high water lines, monuments, neighboring properties and other landmarks? 

Featured Presenter

Laura E. Ayers, Law Office of Laura E. Ayers, Schoharie, NY

Topics Covered:

· Definition and Identification of an Undefined Easement

· Locating and Mapping an undefined Easement

· Moving an undefined Easement

· Case Studies Including but not limited to:

Leeman v. McNamee, 58 A.D.3d 918 (3d Dept 2009)

Judd v. Vilardo, 57 A.D.3d 1127 (3d Dept 2008)

Green v. Mann 237 A.D.2d 566 (2nd Dept 1997)

            Onthank v. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, 71 N.Y. 194 (1877)

Total Credits: 1.00 | Areas of Professional Practice: 1.00