quasi-easements

The term quasi-easements has been applied to those easements which, not being easements of absolute necessity, come into existence for the first time by presumed grant or operation of law on a severance of two or more tenements formerly united in the sole or joint possession or ownership of one or more persons. The law relating to quasi-easements arising on a division of property is based on the same principle, which governs the conveyance of a part of the tenement held by a single owner or possessor. The principle is that on the grant by the owner of an entire property or a part of that property there will pass to the grantee all those continuous and apparent easements, termed quasi-easements which have been and are at the time of the grant in use for the benefit of the part granted.