A property owner grants a neighbor permission to cross their land. The neighbor uses the path continuously, openly, and hostilely for the prescriptive period. This may create an easement:

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By prescription. An easement by prescription is acquired through open, notorious, continuous, hostile, and adverse use of another's land for the statutory period (5 years in California), similar to adverse possession but without ownership.

A property owner grants a neighbor permission to cross their land. The neighbor uses the path continuously, openly, and hostilely for the prescriptive period. This may create an easement:

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