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RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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Easements are also positive or negative.

Official text — RA 386

Easements are also positive or negative.

A positive easement is one which imposes upon the owner of the servient estate the obligation of allowing something to be done or of doing it himself, and a negative easement, that which prohibits the owner of the servient estate from doing something which he could lawfully do if the easement did not exist. (533)

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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