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
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