Termination of easements

Generally, mere non-use does not end an easement. One or more of the
following factors may also have to be present:

 Agreement to terminate by grantor and the grantee of the

easement

 Expiration of the time allowed for the easement

 Abandonment or expressed intent to discontinue use of the

easement

 Merger where one person buys both dominant and servient

tenement

 End of necessity which gave rise to easement by necessity

 Estoppel, where a holder of the easement stops making use of

the easement and a third party detrimentally relied on the
stopped use

 Prescription where a holder of the easement uses someone else

 to use the easement for a period of statute of limitations

 Condemnation where the government terminates easement

through eminent domain