An easement may be created in the following ways:
• Express grant or reservation: this is a situation whereby the proprietor of land or lease gives an easement over his land or land comprised in the lease. The transaction is effected by execution of an instrument in a prescribed form.
• Statute: the public roads and roads of Access Act give the minister power to create easements.
• Prescription: a person acquires an easement over anothers land through uninterrupted usage for 20 years with knowledge of the owners. Such an easement must be registered against the servient tenement.