THE
EAGLE’S NEST A WI AGENCY NEWSLETTER
NOV/DEC 2022
Easements are For Parcels, Not People
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Upcoming Holiday Closures
By: James Powers, Senior Underwriting Counsel Imagine you are purchasing a ten-acre parcel at the “bottom” of a forty. To get to your parcel, you need to travel south from the public road that runs along the northerly quarter line and through one of the northerly quarter-quarters. The seller of the ten-acre parcel also owns the north twenty acres and grants you an easement to reach your parcel. Then he sells the north twenty, subject to the easement. You’re all set. A few years later, you purchase a two-acre parcel that abuts the easement in the “North Twenty.” Can you use the easement? No, of course not. Although easement grantees are humans who own or are purchasing real estate, the actual beneficiaries of easements are parcels, not people. In the above scenario, you were given an easement to a described parcel in the bottom twenty acres, not to any other parcel. If you acquire a piece of land anywhere outside the described parcel, the grant of easement does not apply.
Easements are for Parcels, Not People by James Powers
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December News Brief
Upcoming Holiday Closures The State Agency Office will be closed on: Christmas Day Holiday • December 26, 2022 New Year’s Day Holiday • January 2, 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Day • January 16, 2023
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