Is it possible to revoke an easement?
You cannot generally revoke an easement unless, by its own terms, it can be terminated or limited. Sometimes you get what's called a license, which is similar to an easement, but it generally is revokable although it can be irrevokable and sometimes it's not actually quite the same use of a property and it may be some lesser use than, actually, a roadway or a walkway or putting your cable lines under the neighbor's property. So licenses are usually the sort of device that's used if you want it to be revocable. But usually easements are irrevocable because they're the kind of use that you really cannot use your property without the permanent easement in place, and you can't transfer that right to somebody to use your property, you can't sell your property without that easement. You can imagine if somebody has a lot and they divide into three and there's a front lot, a middle lot, and a back lot and there's a roadway that goes to access the lots in the middle and the back. Those lots would be virtually valueless if they didn't have that ingress and egress easement so that you could drive into your property. That's got to be permanent. So almost never are you going to want an easement to be something that's less than permanent because it generally is crucial to the use of your property.
