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The Indian Easements Act
`1882
An Act to define and amend the law relating to Easements and Licenses.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
OF EASEMENTS GENERALLY
THE IMPOSITION, ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF EASEMENTS
THE INCIDENTS OF EASEMENTS
THE DISTURBANCE OF EASEMENTS
THE EXTINCTION, SUSPENSION AND REVIVAL OF EASEMENTS
LICENSES
PRELIMINARY
1
Short title
2
Savings
3
Construction of certain references to Act 15 of 1877 and Act 9 of 1871
OF EASEMENTS GENERALLY
4
"Easement" defined
5
Continuous and discontinuous, apparent and non-apparent, easements
6
Easement for limited time or on condition
7
Easements restrictive of certain rights
THE IMPOSITION, ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF EASEMENTS
8
Who may impose easements
9
Servient owners
10
Lessor and mortgagor
11
Lessee
12
Who may acquire easements
13
Easements of necessity and quasi easements
14
Direction of way of necessity
15
Acquisition by prescription
16
Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient heritage
17
Rights which cannot be acquired by prescription
18
Customary easements
19
Transfer of dominant heritage passes easement
THE INCIDENTS OF EASEMENTS
20
Rules controlled by contract or title
21
Bar to use unconnected with enjoyment
22
Exercise of ease dent. Confinement of exercise of easement
23
Right to alter mode of enjoyment
24
Right to do acts to secure enjoyment
25
Liability for expenses necessary for preservation of easement
26
Liability for damage from want of repair
27
Servient owner not bound to do anything
28
Extent of easements
29
Increase of easement
30
Partition of dominant heritage
31
Obstruction in case of excessive user
THE DISTURBANCE OF EASEMENTS
32
Right to enjoyment without disturbance
33
Suit for disturbance of easement
34
When cause of action arises for removal of support
35
Injunction to restrain disturbance
36
Abatement of obstruction of easement
THE EXTINCTION, SUSPENSION AND REVIVAL OF EASEMENTS
37
Extinction by dissolution of right of servient owner
38
Extinction by release
39
Extinction by revocation
40
Extinction on expiration of limited period or happening of dissolving condition
41
Extinction on termination of necessity
42
Extinction of useless easement
43
Extinction by permanent Change in dominant heritage
44
Extinction on permanent alteration of servient heritage by superior force
45
Extinction by destruction of either heritage
46
Extinction by unity of ownership
47
Extinction by non-enjoyment
48
Extinction of accessory rights
49
Suspension of easement
50
Servient owner not entitled to require continuance
51
Revival of easements
LICENSES
52
"License" defined
53
Who may grant license
54
Grant may be express or implied
55
Accessory licenses annexed by law
56
License when transferable
57
Grantor's duty to disclose defects
58
Grantor's duty not to render property unsafe
59
Grantor's transferee not bound by license
60
License when revocable
61
Revocation express or implied
62
License when deemed revoked
63
Licensee's rights on revocation
64
Licensee's rights on eviction