An easement by condemnation has which characteristics?

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When the government uses its eminent domain power, it can acquire a limited right to use private land for a public purpose. That resulting right is an easement by condemnation. Because the benefit of this easement goes to the public or the government itself rather than to a specific parcel of land owned by someone else, there isn’t a dominant estate attached to the easement. Instead, the easement is in gross, meaning it benefits a public entity or the public as a whole. Since it’s created through condemnation, all of these characteristics hold true: it has no dominant estate, it’s created under the power of eminent domain, and it’s considered an easement in gross.