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Mund v. English
Court of Appeals of Oregon (1984) | 684 P.2d 1248; 69 Or. App. 289
TL;DR: A family dispute over a shared water well resulted in the court granting an irrevocable license to the son for the well on his mother's land, based on his substantial investment in building a home in reliance on access to the water.
Legal Significance: In Oregon, an oral license to use land becomes irrevocable by operation of law when the licensee makes substantial expenditures in reasonable reliance on the license, creating an interest akin to an easement through estoppel rather than by agreement.