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Originally Posted by blueash
So often people have posted this wrong opinion about ownership. An easement is a legal grant to allow a utility to come on to your property that you 100% do own to do their work. Repeat, you own the land but a condition of ownership when you bought the land is you must allow certain specific activities on your land.
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You're right, most people don't understand easements and ownership.
You are incorrect.
An "Easement" is not a legal grant to allow a utility to come on to your property that you 100% own". Easements have 2 parts ... the Dominant estate and the Servient estate.
It depends on what easement is in questions and and where it's located.
The "Easements" along the sides of Villages roads/streets do NOT belong to homeowners.
Easements between homes, typically belong to abutting home owners, but not always.
In this case, the poster says they were digging trenches on "both sides of his driveway" ... that doesn't make sense. It's not likely there's an easement for utilities, through or over his driveway (other than within the road layout).