Quasi Easement — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An "easement," in the proper sense of the word, can only exist in respect of two adjoining pieces of land occupied by different persons, and can only impose a negative duty on the owner of the servient tenement. Hence an obligation on the owner of land to repair the fence between his and his neighbor's land is not a true easement, but is sometimes called a "quasi easement." Gale, Easem. 516.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Where the owner of an entire tract, or of two or more adjoining parcels, so employs a part thereof as to create a seeming servitude in favor of another portion to which the use becomes appurtenant, such use is tantamount to an easement at will so long as the unity of ownership continues, and such servitude is a quasi-easement. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 684, note.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An "easement," in the proper sense of the word, can only exist in respect of two adjoining pieces of land occupied by different persons, and can only impose a negative duty on the owner of the servient tenement. Hence an obligation on the owner of land to repair the fence between his and his neighbor's land is not a true easement, but is sometimes called a "quasi easement." Gale, Easem. 516; Sweet.

Defined under Easement in Black's Law Dictionary.