地役権
chiekikenちえきけん
Easement
A registered right to use someone else's land for the benefit of your own — most commonly for access, drainage, or overhead power lines. An easement burdening the land you are buying limits what you can do with it; one benefiting it may be essential to reach the property at all.
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