North Dakota prescriptive easement law

N.D. Cent. Code §§ 28-01-04, 47-05-12

Prescriptive period

20 years

What actually decides a claim here

Twenty years of adverse use; ten years applies with color of title and payment of taxes.
Easements not used for twenty years may be treated as abandoned.

Read the official North Dakota code Check a property in North Dakota

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.