OH
Ohio prescriptive easement law
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2305.04
Prescriptive period
21 years
What actually decides a claim here
- Twenty-one years of open, notorious, adverse, continuous use.
- Ohio's Marketable Title Act can extinguish old recorded easements not preserved within forty years.
Related terms
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.
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