CONDEMNATION of EASEMENTS Form

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hi this is Joe from prep agent today we're talking about easements an easement is a right held by one person to use the land of another person for a specified purpose such as access to a property we're talking about easements you'll hear the term ingress which means to enter an egress which means to exit and a pertinent easement and a pertinent easement involves two properties owned by two different owners the two properties involved are called the dominant and servant tenement we're not sure about who is who just think about what the two words mean dominant they're dominating therefore they're in charge servant they are serving so the servant tenement is serving the dominant tenements purpose in more tangible terms the dominant tenement is walking over the servant tenements property in real-world situations the dominant tenement property is typically smaller than the servant tenement property for example let's say your property's landlocked that means it has no direct access to a publ