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easement

[eez-muhnt] / ˈiz mənt /
NOUN
right of way
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Today, they run about 250 head on grass they have placed under a permanent conservation easement, selling meat directly to customers and field-harvesting each animal on the pasture where it has lived its whole life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In 2015, Trump announced he would forgo his plans to build homes on 16 additional lots, instead granting an 11.5-acre conservation easement to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

"If they can win over just enough to clear enough hurdles to get the next easement or next little contract or permit approved, they know they'll be able to get their work done."

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024

He was asked to identify the portion of the profits attributable to the easement itself, which is not a routine request he or other consultants typically receive.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

He meant with your mind, and Will did it instantly, sensing the minute snags and then the minute easement as the edges lined up perfectly.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

He put some of the first conservation easements in the country on Hope Plantation and St. Phillips Island, according to “Last Stand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Some parcels have been protected as open space through purchase by the Baldwin Hills Regional Conservation Authority and easements purchased by Los Angeles County decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

That means that any easements would have to be found within the bounds of the Windsor Framework.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024

The pipeline had been installed in 1953 and, at the time, had received easements to do so from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023

Now, all these small landowners were, in reality, ill at ease in the cultivation of their property, and had to bear many charges, or easements, on the land which they could not shake off.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton




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