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Definition of Public easement
1. Noun. Any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Easement
Literary usage of Public easement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"for an increase in the public easement by novel and burdensome public uses.12 It
has also been intimated that the original owner may dedicate a highway ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Telegraph Co., supra, It is a mere easement carved out of, subservient and
appurtenant to, the public easement in such street. There is great conflict In ..."
3. The Principles of the Law of Public Corporations by Charles Burke Elliott, John Edward Macy (1910)
"Uses not within the public easement. 68. Vacation: rights of abutters. ...
The power over this public easement which may be exerted by the legislature, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Easements: In Continuation of the Author's Treatise by Leonard Augustus Jones (1898)
"... of the public easement. 478. The public by dedication or use of a highway
acquire only an easement in the land and not an interest in the soil itself. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Eminent Domain in the United States by John Lewis (1900)
"ject to a public easement of way by dedication or prescription.—In such cases
the owner of the fee is entitled to only nominal damages.00 The same is true ..."
6. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Duration of Franchise; Right limited by Life of public easement. — Where the fee
of the street or highway is not vested in the municipality, and where the ..."
7. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"The question, then, is, What is the nature and extent of the public easement in
a highway? If there is any one fact established in the history of society ..."
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