Texas Real Estate State Practice Exam

Easements can be terminated through the merger of adjacent properties. When the same owner acquires both the dominant and servient estates, the easement is no longer necessary as the owner now has control over both parcels of land. This eliminates the need for the easement and effectively terminates it.

Options B, C, and D are incorrect:

- Adverse Possession (Option B) is a method through which someone can acquire title to another person's property through continuous and hostile possession over a statutory period. This does not directly relate to the termination of easements.

- Release (Option C) refers to a voluntary agreement between the grantor (holder of the easement) and the grantee (holder of the servient estate) to terminate the easement. However, this is not the only way easements can be terminated.

- Reservation (Option D) is the act of retaining a particular right, title, or interest in or to real property when conveying the property to another person. This is not a method to terminate an existing easement.