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California's five-year adverse-use period (read with §321) is the basis for prescriptive easements — among the shortest in the country.

Texas's ten-year adverse-possession limitations period supplies the period for prescriptive easements.

Florida's twenty-year prescriptive-easement period is established by case law, not by a numbered statute. Cite Florida case law for the period.

Subsection (1) declares and codifies the common-law way of necessity; subsection (2) creates a statutory way of necessity for landlocked parcels — a distinct route to access.

New York's ten-year period to recover real property (read with RPAPL Article 5) supplies the prescriptive-easement period.

Pennsylvania's twenty-one-year limitation supplies the prescriptive-easement period; §5527.1 (2019) provides a ten-year period for certain small residential parcels.

A landlocked owner may petition for a private road; the court appoints a board of view to lay out a route.

Illinois's twenty-year limitation to recover land supplies the prescriptive-easement period. 735 ILCS 5/13-122 lets owners post permission signs to defeat prescription.

Ohio's twenty-one-year period to recover real property supplies the prescriptive-easement period.

Georgia's private-way prescriptive easement on improved land ripens in seven years — shorter than the twenty-year general prescription period (§44-5-163).

A landlocked owner may petition the superior court to condemn a private way of necessity, generally up to twenty feet wide.

North Carolina's twenty-year adverse-possession period also supplies the prescriptive-easement period.

A landlocked owner may bring a statutory cartway proceeding to condemn an access route — distinct from the common-law easement by necessity.

Michigan's fifteen-year catch-all limitation underlies adverse possession and prescriptive easements.

A landlocked owner may use the township private-road procedure to establish access.