Minnesota prescriptive easement law

Minn. Stat. § 541.02

Prescriptive period

15 years

What actually decides a claim here

Fifteen years of hostile, actual, open, continuous, exclusive use.
Torrens-registered property is generally immune from prescriptive claims.

Read the official Minnesota code Check a property in Minnesota

Related terms

prescriptive easement

easement by necessity

right of way

encroachment

General educational reference only. Prescription periods and their exceptions change, and several states set the period by case law rather than by statute. Read the linked official code and consult a licensed attorney in that state before relying on any of it.