Elements | Positive Easement | Negative Easement |
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Act of servient estate’s owner | Must allow the owner of dominant estate or the latter must do something | Must refrain from doing something lawful |
Commencement of acquisitive prescription | Date of enjoyment of easement | Date that owner of dominant estate prohibited the servient estate by formal act |
Required issance | NA | Notarial prohibition |
Example | Easement of light on a party wall or wall of another | Easement of light in one’s own wall (the servient estate cannot build at certain point) |
Republic v. Matias-Dagdag
Facts On September 7, 1975, Erlinda Matias married Avelino Parangan Dagdag. A week after the wedding, Avelino started leaving his family without explanation. He would disappear for months, and suddenly reappear for a