Indian Easements Act, 1882

Section - 1 - Short title

Section - 2 - Savings

Section - 3 - Construction of certain references to Act XV of 1877 and Act IX of 1871

Section - 4 - “Easement” defined

Section - 5 - Continuous and discontinuous, apparent and non-apparent, easements

Section - 6 - Easement for limited time or on condition

Section - 7 - Easements restrictive of certain rights

Section - 8 - Who may impose easements

Section - 9 - Servient owners

Section - 10 - Lessor and mortgagor

Section - 11 - Lessee

Section - 12 - Who may acquire easements

Section - 13 - Easements of necessity and quasi easements

Section - 14 - Direction of way of necessity

Section - 15 - Acquisition by prescription

Section - 16 - Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient heritage

Section - 17 - Rights which cannot be acquired by prescription

Section - 18 - Customary easements

Section - 19 - Transfer of dominant heritage passes easement

Section - 20 - Rules controlled by contract or title

Section - 21 - Bar to use unconnected with enjoyment

Section - 22 - Exercise of easement-Confinement of exercise of easement

Section - 23 - Right to alter mode of enjoyment

Section - 24 - Right to do acts to secure enjoyment

Section - 25 - Liability for expenses necessary for preservation of easement

Section - 26 - Liability for damage from want of repair

Section - 27 - Servient owner not bound to do anything

Section - 28 - Extent of easements

Section - 29 - Increase of easement

Section - 30 - Partition of dominant heritage

Section - 31 - Obstruction in case of excessive user

Section - 32 - Right to enjoyment without disturbance

Section - 33 - Suit for disturbance of easement

Section - 34 - When cause of action arises for removal of support

Section - 35 - Injunction to restrain disturbance

Section - 36 - Abatement of obstruction of easement

Section - 37 - Extinction by dissolution of right of servient owner

Section - 38 - Extinction by release

Section - 39 - Extinction by revocation

Section - 40 - Extinction on expiration of limited period or happening of dissolving condition

Section - 41 - Extinction on termination of necessity

Section - 42 - Extinction of useless easement

Section - 43 - Extinction by permanent change in dominant heritage

Section - 44 - Extinction on permanent alternative of servient heritage by superior force

Section - 45 - Extinction by destruction of either heritage

Section - 46 - Extinction by unity of ownership

Section - 47 - Extinction by non-enjoyment

Section - 48 - Extinction of accessory rights

Section - 49 - Suspension of easement

Section - 50 - Servient owner not entitled to require continuance

Section - 51 - Revival of easements

Section - 52 - "Licence" defined

Section - 53 - Who may grant licence

Section - 54 - Grant may be express or implied

Section - 55 - Accessory licenses annexed by law

Section - 56 - License when transferable

Section - 57 - Grantor's duty to disclose defects

Section - 58 - Grantor's duty not to render property unsafe

Section - 59 - Grantor's transferee not bound by licence

Section - 60 - License when revocable

Section - 61 - Revocation express or implied

Section - 62 - License when deemed revoked

Section - 63 - Licensee’s rights on revocation

Section - 64 - Licensee’s rights on eviction

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