Section List

Act Number: 5

Act Name: The Indian Easements Act, 1882

Year: 1882

Enactment Date: 1882-02-17

Long Title: An Act to define and amend the law relating to Easements and Licenses.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section NumberTitleActions
1Short title.
2Savings.
3Construction of certain references to Act 15 of 1877 and Act 9 of 1871.
4"Easement" defined.
5Continuous and discontinuous, apparent and non-apparent, easements.
6Easement for limited time or on condition.
7Easements restrictive of certain rights.
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.
20Rules controlled by contract or title.
21Bar to use unconnected with enjoyment.
22 Exercise 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.
32Right to enjoyment without disturbance.
33Suit for disturbance of easement.
34When cause of action arises for removal of support.
35Injunction to restrain disturbance.
36Abatement of obstruction of easement.
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.
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.
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