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The Court of Appeal decision in Hunsinger v. Carter<\/em><\/a> contains a statement of the principles of establishing an easement by prescription (which, as I like to point out, is a limitation issue):<\/p>\n [<\/a>9]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An easement by prescription can arise either under\u00a0s. 31<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Real Property Limitations Act<\/em>, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.15<\/a>, or pursuant to the doctrine of lost modern grant. Both have the same four requirements, which were properly recognized by the application judge: i) a dominant tenement that enjoys the benefit of the easement and a servient tenement whose owner suffers some use of its land; ii) the properties cannot be owned by the same person; iii) the benefit of the easement must be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the dominant tenement; and iv) there must be 20 or 40 years\u2019 (see:\u00a0Kaminskas v. Storm<\/em>,\u00a02009 ONCA 318<\/span>\u00a0(CanLII)<\/a>,\u00a095 O.R. (3d) 387<\/span>, at paras. 31-36<\/span>) continuous, uninterrupted, open, and peaceful use enjoyed without obtaining the permission of the servient tenement owner. See:\u00a0Henderson et al. v. Volk et al.<\/em>\u00a0(1982),\u00a01982 CanLII 1744 (ON CA)<\/a>,\u00a035 O.R. (2d) 379 (C.A.)<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n [<\/a>10]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After a property has been registered under the Land Titles system, a pre-existing prescriptive easement over the land can be established if the four criteria can be proved to have been met before the land was transferred into Land Titles:\u00a0Carpenter v. Doull-MacDonald<\/em>,\u00a02017 ONSC 7560<\/span>\u00a0(CanLII)<\/a>, at paras. 54-55<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Court of Appeal decision in Hunsinger v. Carter contains a statement of the principles of establishing an easement by prescription (which, as I like to point out, is a limitation issue): (1)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Establishment of an easement by prescription [9]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An easement by prescription can arise either under\u00a0s. 31\u00a0of the\u00a0Real Property Limitations … Continue reading Ontario: Easements by prescription<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[507,43,265,417,419,420],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-easements","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal","tag-ontario-real-property-limitations-act","tag-ontario-real-property-limitations-act-s-31","tag-prescriptive-easements","tag-unexpected-limitations-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
(1)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Establishment of an easement by prescription<\/h2>\n