90. Contribution to repairs
Feedback & supportWhere an instrument creating an easement contains a covenant binding either party to contribute to the cost of construction, maintenance or repair of any way, wall, drain, or other the subject of the easement, then, unless a contrary intention is expressed in the instrument, so long as the easement subsists the covenant binds any successor in title to that party as if the successor had been a party to the original covenant.
This section does not render any person liable to contribute to expenditure incurred at a time before he became, or after he ceased to be, a proprietor of the tenement to which the liability attached.
For the purpose of subsection (2), any liability of a proprietor of an easement ceases from the time at which he delivers to the proprietor of the servient tenement a registrable release of the easement.[86
servient tenement
“dominant tenement” and “servient tenement” mean respectively the land to which the benefit of an easement has been made appurtenant, and the land which is subject to the burden of an easement.(2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as altering the law relating to the natural rights to support, light, air, water, or to access to a highway, nor as altering any rule or principle of law which implies in the grant of an easement such ancillary rights as may be necessary for the effective enjoyment of the easement.[79 In this Part,