California Easement Law

[Mike T.]

I focus on buying and selling vacant land and I am currently looking at a 10 acre parcel in Northern California.  I have it under contract for a couple of hundred per acre.  This piece is 8 miles from a Starbucks and Home Depot.

I just received the title report and it shows there are easements for roads recorded from 1892.  The parcel lies in between a few cattle ranches.  If the parcel map shows what I believe to be roads do you have legal access to the land?

Access to the closest land would require cutting across a 150 acre parcel perpendicular to the way the roads are cut.