Question

Define the following terms “Easement and License” and describe the main difference between them.

Answer 1

Easement:

An easement is a right to use the property of another.
Easements are usually intended to be permanent, and are thus not revocable at the will of the owner of the land over which the easement passes.
Easements do not grant full possession of the land.
Instead, easements grant only the right to perform certain acts.

License:

A license is oral or written (the statute of frauds does not apply to licenses) permission given by the occupant of land, allowing the licensee to do some act that otherwise would be a trespass.
Licenses, like easements, allow their holder to enter upon the land of another.
But unlike an affirmative easement, the license is not an interest in land.
A license is merely a privilege, revocable at the will of the licensor.

​​​​Difference:

Main difference between an easement and a license is that, although the privilege to use the land resembles an easement, a license is generally revocable, whereas an easement is not.