{"id":237,"date":"2019-05-17T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","slug":"easement-by-necessity-extinguished-by-marketable-title-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/05\/17\/easement-by-necessity-extinguished-by-marketable-title-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Easement by necessity extinguished by marketable title act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vermont&#8217;s marketable title act, Vt. Stat. tit. 27, \u00a7604(a), allows preservation of claims established more than forty years ago if they are re-recorded but does not require easements to be re-recorded if they are visible or evidenced by a &#8220;recorded agreement.&#8221; In&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontjudiciary.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/op18-146.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Gray v. Treder,&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>2018 VT 137, 2018 Vt. LEXIS 237 (Vt. 2018), the Vermont Supreme Court held that easements by necessity fit into neither of those categories and thus need to be re-recorded every forty years to preserve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the case resulted in a landlocked parcel, the Court found the statutory policies of clearing title to be more important than ensuring access to a landlocked parcel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/easements\/\" rel=\"tag\">Easements<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/title-issues\/\" rel=\"tag\">Title Issues<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont&#8217;s marketable title act, Vt. Stat. tit. 27, \u00a7604(a), allows preservation of claims established more than forty years ago if they are re-recorded but does not require easements to be re-recorded if they are visible or evidenced by a &#8220;recorded agreement.&#8221; In&nbsp;Gray v. Treder,&nbsp;2018 VT 137, 2018 Vt. LEXIS 237 (Vt. 2018), the Vermont Supreme Court held that easements by necessity fit into neither of those categories and thus need to be re-recorded every forty years to preserve them. While the case resulted in a landlocked parcel, the Court found the statutory policies of clearing title to be more important than ensuring access to a landlocked parcel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements","category-servitudes","category-title-issues"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}