{"id":415,"date":"2018-03-28T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=415"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:41","slug":"defeasible-easements-are-enforceable-if-clearly-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/03\/28\/defeasible-easements-are-enforceable-if-clearly-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeasible easements are enforceable if clearly created"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/kentucky\/supreme-court\/2017\/2016-sc-000213-dg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Majestic Oaks Homeowners Ass\u2019n v. Majestic Oaks Farms, Inc.,<\/a>\u00a0530 S.2d 3 435 (Ky. 2017), covenants for a residential subdivision creates easements that were subject to abolition by a supermajority vote of the homeowners. The Kentucky Supreme Court saw no reason not to allow easements to be made defeasible and upheld the power of the association to end the easements.<\/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\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Majestic Oaks Homeowners Ass\u2019n v. Majestic Oaks Farms, Inc.,\u00a0530 S.2d 3 435 (Ky. 2017), covenants for a residential subdivision creates easements that were subject to abolition by a supermajority vote of the homeowners. The Kentucky Supreme Court saw no reason not to allow easements to be made defeasible and upheld the power of the association to end the easements.<\/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":[29,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements","category-estates-and-future-interests","category-servitudes"],"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\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}