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
- 8Who may impose easements
- 9Servient owners
- 10Lessor and mortgagor
- 11Lessee
- 12Who may acquire easements
- 13Easements of necessity and quasi easements
- 14Direction of way of necessity
- 15Acquisition by prescription
- 16Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient heritage
- 17Rights which cannot be acquired by prescription
- 18Customary easements
- 19Transfer of dominant heritage passes easement
THE INCIDENTS OF EASEMENTS
- 20Rules controlled by contract or title
- 21Bar to use unconnected with enjoyment
- 22Exercise of ease dent. Confinement of exercise of easement
- 23Right to alter mode of enjoyment
- 24Right to do acts to secure enjoyment
- 25Liability for expenses necessary for preservation of easement
- 26Liability for damage from want of repair
- 27Servient owner not bound to do anything
- 28Extent of easements
- 29Increase of easement
- 30Partition of dominant heritage
- 31Obstruction in case of excessive user
THE DISTURBANCE OF EASEMENTS
THE EXTINCTION, SUSPENSION AND REVIVAL OF EASEMENTS
- 37Extinction by dissolution of right of servient owner
- 38Extinction by release
- 39Extinction by revocation
- 40Extinction on expiration of limited period or happening of dissolving condition
- 41Extinction on termination of necessity
- 42Extinction of useless easement
- 43Extinction by permanent Change in dominant heritage
- 44Extinction on permanent alteration of servient heritage by superior force
- 45Extinction by destruction of either heritage
- 46Extinction by unity of ownership
- 47Extinction by non-enjoyment
- 48Extinction of accessory rights
- 49Suspension of easement
- 50Servient owner not entitled to require continuance
- 51Revival of easements
LICENSES
- 52"License" defined
- 53Who may grant license
- 54Grant may be express or implied
- 55Accessory licenses annexed by law
- 56License when transferable
- 57Grantor's duty to disclose defects
- 58Grantor's duty not to render property unsafe
- 59Grantor's transferee not bound by license
- 60License when revocable
- 61Revocation express or implied
- 62License when deemed revoked
- 63Licensee's rights on revocation
- 64Licensee's rights on eviction