A legal right to travel to a landlocked parcel of land.
Easement by prescription
Acquired by adverse land use for a statutory period of time.
Easement in gross
A personal right to use the land of another but not attached to any one parcel of land.
Eastlake house
Nineteenth-century style of architecture with houses featuring three-dimensional ornamentation, made by hand with a chisel and gouge.
Easy credit
When very few prospective buyers of real estate are rejected by lenders, usually due to an ample money supply and lower interest rates, which create relaxed credit standards.
Easy money
Increase in the amount of money available for use because of lower interest rates, which stimulates spending on investments such as housing.
Eave
Lower section of the roof forming an overhang and comprised of a fascia, soffit and soffit molding. The word eave comes from the Old English word "off", meaning over.
Eave course
Initial course of shingles installed along the eave line.
Eave flashing
Laying roofing material along the eave line and stretching up the roof under the shingles.
Eave height
Distance measured at the eave line from the ground to the eave. Eave Line Overhanging edge of the roof eave.
