{"id":691,"date":"2011-01-14T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=691"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:16","slug":"private-road-act-authorizing-an-easement-by-necessity-across-neighboring-land-deemed-a-taking-of-property-and-a-violation-of-the-public-use-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2011\/01\/14\/private-road-act-authorizing-an-easement-by-necessity-across-neighboring-land-deemed-a-taking-of-property-and-a-violation-of-the-public-use-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Private road act authorizing an easement by necessity across neighboring land deemed a taking of property and a violation of the public use requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled, in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aopc.org\/OpPosting\/Supreme\/out\/J-70-2010mo.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In re Opening Private Road ex rel. O&#8217;Reilly,<\/a>\u00a05 A.3d 246 (Pa. 2010), that a statute authorizing an owner to construct a road across neighboring property to get to a public road effected an unconstitutional taking of property.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aopc.org\/OpPosting\/Supreme\/out\/J-70-2010do.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read minority opinion.\u00a0<\/a>The court distinguished the common law doctrine of easement by necessity that grants owners rights of way by necessity over remaining land of a common grantor, finding that doctrine to be constitutional. The court further ruled that such a taking was for a private purpose unless the predominant beneficiary of the taking would be the public.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><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\/takings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Takings<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled, in\u00a0In re Opening Private Road ex rel. O&#8217;Reilly,\u00a05 A.3d 246 (Pa. 2010), that a statute authorizing an owner to construct a road across neighboring property to get to a public road effected an unconstitutional taking of property.\u00a0Read minority opinion.\u00a0The court distinguished the common law doctrine of easement by necessity that grants owners rights of way by necessity over remaining land of a common grantor, finding that doctrine to be constitutional. The court further ruled that such a taking was for a private purpose unless the predominant beneficiary of the taking would be the public.<\/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":[35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servitudes","category-takings"],"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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}