Milliken v. Denny.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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1. “It is elementary learning laid down in all of the books and adjudged cases on the subject that an easement may be acquired either by grant, dedication, or prescription. ... It is well settled that dedication may be either by express language, reservation, or by conduct showing an intention to dedicate; such conduct may operate as an express dedication, as when a plat is made showing streets . . . and the land is sold, either by express reference to such plats or by showing that they were used and referred to in the negotiation. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 97 N.C. App. 82 - Town of Sparta v. Hamm

2. “If purchasers wish to acquire a right of way or other easement over other lands of their grantor, it is very easy to have it so declared in the deed of conveyance. It would be a dangerous invasion of rights of property, after many years and after the removal by death or otherwise of the original parties to the deed and conditions have changed, to impose by implication, upon the slippery memory of witnesses, such burdens on land.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. . Robinson