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Make your purchase contingent upon your sole satisfaction of this issue. As well, once you enter escrow for the purchase, the issuing company of the title insurance policy will give you a preliminary title report, which report should include every encumbrance that affects the subject property. Upon your opening of escrow, make sure your realtor (or just request it, yourself) tells the title company that you want every recorded document for each and every encumbrance as part of the PTR.
With that said, however, a prescriptive easement does not necessarily have a recorded document memorializing it, and as such, would not show up in a PTR. I do not know current law, but many years ago a prescriptive easement was perfected (of force) if the benefitting party has had continuous use of the area of the supposed prescriptive easement for a seven (7) year period. Once the seven (7) year period has been reached, the easement is pretty much ensured to the benefitting party.
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