{"id":500,"date":"2016-02-21T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=500"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:53","slug":"prescriptive-easements-require-clear-and-convincing-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2016\/02\/21\/prescriptive-easements-require-clear-and-convincing-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptive easements require clear and convincing evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The South Carolina Supreme Court has joined the majority of states that require proof by clear and convincing evidence (rather than merely a preponderance of the evidence) to obtain an easement by prescription.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.sc.us\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/SC\/27520.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Bundy v. Shirley<\/a>, 772 S.E.2d 163 (S.C. 2015)<\/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\/trespass\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trespass<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Supreme Court has joined the majority of states that require proof by clear and convincing evidence (rather than merely a preponderance of the evidence) to obtain an easement by prescription.\u00a0Bundy v. Shirley, 772 S.E.2d 163 (S.C. 2015)<\/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":[29,35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements","category-servitudes","category-trespass"],"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\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}