California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Manzanares v. Bertolino, B215619, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. EC045005 (Cal. App. 2011):
The elements necessary to establish a prescriptive easement are use of another's property for five years, which use is open and notorious, continuous and uninterrupted, and adverse to the property owner. (Warsaw v. Chicago Metallic Ceilings, Inc. (1984) 35 Cal.3d 564, 570.)
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