An easement conferring exclusive rights on the dominant owner for stated purposes does not necessarily infringe the ouster principle where the servient owner retains significant positive rights (including recreational use) and negative rights (including monitoring compliance), particularly where the affected area is a relatively small proportion of the servient tenement. The concept of 'reasonable use' does not inform the task of construction but only qualifies the exercise of rights once construed.
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