right of way dispute Jamaica

A right of way is a registered or unregistered easement that gives one landowner the right to pass across another’s land to reach their property. In Jamaica, disputes over access rights are common — particularly in rural areas and older subdivisions where not all parcels have direct road frontage. When a right of way is blocked, obstructed, or disputed, the landowner who depends on it may find themselves unable to access or develop their property.

Easements — legal rights to use another person’s land for a specific purpose — are an important feature of Jamaican property law. Fraudulent claims of easement rights, forged easement grants, and misrepresentations about access rights attached to a property have been used both to inflate the value of dominant land and to encumber and devalue servient land.