Jordan v. Worthen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · 3 Cal. 3d 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon · 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Nichols v. Mitchell · People v. Ocean Shore Railroad, Inc.
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“Finally, we note that Civil Code Section 807 provides: “In case of partition of the dominant tenement the burden must be apportioned according to the division of the dominant tenement, but not in such a way as to increase the burden upon the servient tenement.” Strict application of this rule would limit the right to use the private road to one family, presumably the plaintiffs Jordan, who have acquired the old ranch house. The law, however, is not so unmalleable. The Restatement of Property indicates, “Except as limited by the terms of its transfer, or by the manner or terms of the creation of the easement appurtenant, those who succeed to the possession of each of the parts into which a dominant tenement may be subdivided thereby succeed to the privileges of use of the servient tenement authorized by the easement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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