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Article 626. The owner of the dominant estate

cannot use the easement except for the benefit

of the immovable originally contemplated.

Neither can he exercise the easement in any

other manner than that previously established.

(n)

Article 631. Easements are extinguished:

(1) By merger in the same person of the

ownership of the dominant and servient

estates;

(2) By nonuser for ten years; with respect to

discontinuous easements, this period shall

be computed from the day on which they

ceased to be used; and, with respect to

continuous easements, from the day on

which an act contrary to the same took

place;