Home › Model Answers › FE-1 Entrance Examination › Property Law › Easements: characteristics and acquisition
FE-1 · Property Law · Repeat Question
Easements: characteristics and acquisition
The four essential characteristics, the modes of acquisition, and the prescription regime as it actually stands after the 2021 Act repealed the 2009 scheme. Set in two of the last five sittings, the second time almost word for word.
Independent LawShortcut model answer. Independently authored by LawShortcut for exam preparation. It reproduces no examination question. LawShortcut is independent of, and not affiliated with or endorsed by, any examining or professional body, including the Law Society of Ireland.
What this model answer covers
Sections in the full LawShortcut model answer:
- Reading the question
- Issue 1 — What an easement is, and what it is not
- Issue 2 — The essential characteristics: the four-part test
- Issue 3 — Rights refused recognition, and why
- Issue 4 — Acquisition: statute, grant, implication and estoppel
- Issue 5 — Prescription: what the law actually is now
- Issue 6 — Extinguishment
- Overall advice
Full model answer
Read the complete LawShortcut model answer — reading the question, the law, application to the facts, where the marks live, the authorities relied on and the reusable structure.
Part of the FE-1 Property Repeat Question Model Answers. Every authority checked against primary sources; nothing cited that has not been verified.
All Property Law answersFE-1 Model AnswersFree repeat analysis