Reference - Easement Dispute. Sally buys a house from Bob that borders on a lake. Her deed gives her the most complete estate a person may have. She is in her bathing suit sunning one day when her neighbor, Fred cuts through her yard. Sally tells him not to do that anymore. Fred informs her that he had previously purchased and properly recorded a right to cut across her yard to get lake access. Sally asks you what she should do to try to get rid of Fred because she doesn't like him cutting through her yard when she is sunning. What is the type of right that Fred is exercising by cutting through the yard called?

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An easement is an irrevocable right to use some part of another's land for a specific purpose without taking anything from it.