Just as the subject states.   Someone I know is looking at some property and it's landlocked with no easement.    Seems like it would be a pain to get one, not to mention running utility lines a long distance to build.   Anyone ever run into this?

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Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Sounds like a lot of time, trouble and expense to me.

Old farmer's place up the road from me is landlocked, though there is an "implied easement" due to the private road that crosses several parcels to get there.  I've looked to see if there is any written easement, because I also use that private road, and I haven't found anything.  After the farmer died, his kids held onto the property for a while, then sold it for something in the neighborhood of 1.5 million.  The buyer had all the buildings demolished (house, barn, etc), sat on it for a few years, then flipped it for a profit of maybe a million.  The local real estate market makes no sense.

I can only imagine the headaches they will have to go through, if they decide to build anything more than a shed on the land.

Yes. TN law allows property to have no access.

Sounds bad to me too.  And advised as such.

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Pretty good info here.

https://legalbeagle.com/6956060-rights-landlocked-land-owners-tennessee.html

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Sounds like a "Prescriptive Easement":

Express easement:  Created by a written agreement identifying the location, size and permitted use.

Implied easement:  Inferred by the facts and circumstances of the transaction, including severance of unity.

Easement by reservation:  Created by a grantor reserving the right to an easement in a transfer of part of the property.

Easement by prescription:  Created when a person, acting under an adverse claim of right, makes continuous, uninterrupted, open, visible and exclusive use of neighboring land for at least 20 years with the true owner's knowledge and acquiescence.

Easement by estoppel:  Created by the courts as a result of a misrepresentation or fraud by the owner of a servient tenement.



I live at the end of a one-mile gravel road.  AFAIK, there are no easement language in the lands along the road.  The road, according to USG maps, has been here since the 1930's.  A house has been on my property (since burned down) since the 1980's; so, a Prescriptive Easement has been well established for this and all the other properties on this road.  Hence, there is no way for anyone to close off the road or prevent travel along it by the otherwise landlocked property owners.

INAL; this opinion comes from my attorney, who is also the county attorney and has been for at least 12-13 years now.

Hmmmm..... thats not the way Ive always interpreted it.