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MODES OF ACQUIRING EASEMENTS

Article 620. Continuous and apparent

easements are acquired either by virtue of a title

or by prescription of ten years. (537a)

Article 621. In order to acquire by prescription

the easements referred to in the preceding

Article, the time of possession shall be

computed thus: in positive easements, from

the day on which the owner of the dominant

estate, or the person who may have made use

of the easement, commenced to exercise it

upon the servient estate; and in negative

easements, from the day on which the owner

of the dominant estate forbade, by an

instrument acknowledged before a notary

public, the owner of the servient estate, from

executing an act which would be lawful

without the easement. (538a)