Section 8 Exclusive or Nonexclusive

• Library: Real Estate Fundamentals 2011

Easements are either exclusive or common and nonexclusive. Henley v. Cont’l Cablevision of St. Louis Cnty., Inc., 692 S.W.2d 825, 827 (Mo. App. E.D. 1985). Easements are exclusive when the owner or holder of the easement holds the entire or whole right to utilize the benefits of that easement, i.e., when the servient landowner may not participate in that use. Id. at 827–28; see also 2 Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes § 5.9 (2000). If, however, the servient landowner retains the privilege of sharing the...