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 Virginia law is instructive.  Easements, whether affirmative or negative, are classified as either 'appurtenant' or 'in gross.' An easement appurtenant, also known as a pure easement, has both a dominant and a servient tract and is capable of being transferred or inherited. It frequently is said that an easement appurtenant 'runs with the land,' which is to say that the benefit conveyed by or the duty owed under the easement passes with the ownership of the land to which it is appurtenant. See Greenan v. Solomon, 252 Va. 50, 54, 472 S.E.2d 54, 57 (1996); Lester Coal Corp. v. Lester, 203 ...