easement

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In exchange for the easement, the town must do landscape maintenance and take care of litter and vegetation issues in the area of the easement.

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  1. noun The act of easing or the condition of being eased.
  2. noun Something that affords ease or comfort.
  3. noun Law A right, such as a right of way, afforded a person to make limited use of another's real property.

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  • In return for a six-month construction easement and a perpetual drainage easement, the city is offering Irwin $5,500, records show. —  CantonRep.com Home RSS
  • The proposed drainage easement - 20 feet wide - would mostly run next to an existing 110-foot-wide gas-line easement, and is expected to involve a third of an acre of Irwin's 24-acre property, Martuccio said. —  CantonRep.com Home RSS
  • He would also require a 60-foot easement, with few exceptions; give priority to roads with completed easement or those that are unsafe; place hot-mix asphalt on high-volume roads and chip-and-seal paving on less-traveled roads. —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • A conservation easement is a legal document drawn up between a landowner and a government agency or non-proffit organization such as the Virginia Outdoors Fooundation or Piedmont Environmental Council. —  Charlottesville Blogs
  • They told us they will cut down the trees on their easement area and will not restore our landscaping. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
 

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  1. from Middle English esement, eysement, from Old French aisement (= Provencal aizimen), from aiser, ease: see ease and -ment.
 

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