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What is an Easement?

An easement is the grant of a nonpossessory property interest that grants the easement holder permission to use another person's land. There are different kinds of easements. If an easement appurtenant is granted, it involves two pieces of land, where one serves as the servient tenement that bears the burden, and the other the dominant tenement, which...............

Introduction to Easements

An easement is an interest in land that allows its holder to make or prevent use of property that is legally possessed or owned by another person. Easements can be either affirmative or negative. The owner of an affirmative easement in property is entitled to make use of the property to whatever extent the easement allows him or her to do so. The owner of a negative easement is able to prevent the owner or possessor of the property from using the land in a manner that is described by the terms of the easement. In other words, an easement is a right to use another person’s land for a limited purpose or to prevent the use of that land for a specific purpose............

Easements, Rights of Way and Types of Title

Introduction to Preservation Easements

Preservation easements currently preserve thousands of historic properties across the United States--from single-family dwellings, complexes of buildings and nationally-significant historic landmarks to rural villages, cultural landscapes, farms and farmland—and a wide variety of resource types—from New England Cape Cod cottages to Southwestern archaeological sites, from Kentucky horse farms to mid twentieth-century Modernist houses in California................

California Civil Code Section 2920 - 2944.7 (California Law on Mortgages and Foreclosures)

2922. A mortgage can be created, renewed, or extended, only by writing, executed with the formalities required in the case of a grant of real property.............

CALIFORNIA HOME OWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS

The California Homeowner Bill of Rights became law on January 1, 2013 to ensure fair lending and borrowing practices for California homeowners..................

The Tax Consequences of the Statutory Right of Redemption in Property Foreclosures

When a borrower redeems her home lost through foreclosure, and the loan securing the home was a recourse loan, the tax consequences are as follows. If the price at the foreclosure sale is equal to the outstanding amount of the original loan, then there has been no change in the amount owed, acquisition cost, or basis, and thus, no income is recognized. If the price paid by the purchaser at the foreclosure auction is less than the amount that the original borrower owes the lender, and the borrower redeems the house at that lower price, then the borrower now has.........................................