What rights do I have over an easement through my property given to neighboring property owner?”
It depends on the language of the easement. Generally, an easement grants the rights specified and no others. For instance, an easement to “pass and repass for access” doesn’t include the right park cars or to put in utility lines. An easement for “access and utilities” probably doesn’t include parking. An easement for “all purposes for which a public highway might be used” would probably include parking and utilities. An easement usually serves only the property to which it is granted. For instance, if you have a driveway easement over your lot to the lot behind you, the rear lot owner can’t turn around and grant an easement to the shopping center behind him and increase the amount of traffic over your property. The harder and more common problem is when the back land changes character. For instance: you have an easement over your land to serve the land in the back and, when granted, the back land was 40 acres with one house. Then the back land gets subdivided into 20 building lots an
