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The Easements Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....appears, be deemed to pass the easement to the person in whose favour the transfer or devolution takes place. SECTION 20: RULES CONTROLLED BY CONTRACT OR TITLE The rules contained in this Chapter are controlled by any contract between the dominant and servient owners relating to the servient heritage, and by the provisions of the instrument or decree, if any, by which the easement referred to was imposed. Incidents of customary easements and when any incident of any customary easement is inconsistent with such rules, nothing in this Chapter shall affect such incident. SECTION 21: BAR TO USE UNCONNECTED WITH ENJOYMENT An easement must not be used for any purpose not connected with the enjoyment of the dominant heritage. SECTION 22: EXERCISE OF EASEMENT -- CONFINEMENT OF EXERCISE OF Easement The dominant owner must exercise his right in the mode which is least onerous to the servient owner; and when the exercise of an easement can without detriment to the dominant owner be confined to a determinate part of the servient heritage, such exercise shall, at the request of the servient owner, be so confined. SECTION 23: RIGHT TO ALTER MODE OF ENJOYMENT Subject to the provisions of.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 5

Title: The Extinction, Suspension and Revival of Easements

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....to B, and lawfully imposes an easement on the land in favour of C in accordance with the provisions of section 10. The land is sold to D in satisfaction of the mortgage-debt. The easement is not thereby extinguished. Section 38 - Extinction by release An easement is extinguished when the dominant owner releases it, expressly or impliedly, to the servient owner. Such release can be made only in the circumstances and to the extent in and to which the dominant owner can alienate the dominant heritage. An easement may be released as to part only of the servient heritage. Explanation I.--An easement is impliedly released-- (a) where the dominant owner expressly authorises an act of a permanent nature to be done on the servient heritage, the necessary consequence of which is to prevent his future enjoyment of the easement, and such act is done in pursuance of such authority; (b) where any permanent alteration is made in the dominant heritage of such a nature as to show that the dominant owner intended to cease to enjoy the easement in future. Explanation II.--Mere non-user of an easement is not an implied release within the meaning of this section. Illustrations .....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 3

Title: The Incidents of Easements

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....of his mill. He cannot thereby increase his right to divert water. (b) A has acquired an easement to pollute a stream by carrying on a manufacture on its banks by which a certain quantity of foul matter is discharged into it. A extends his works and thereby increases the quantity discharged. He is responsible to the lower riparian owners for injury done by such increase. (c) A as the owner of a farm, has a right to lake for the purpose of manuring his farm: leaves which have fallen from the trees on B's land. A buys a field and unites it to his farm. A is not thereby entitled to take leaves to manure this fields. Section 30 - Partition of dominant heritage Where a dominant heritage is divided between two or more persons, the easement becomes annexed to each of the shares, but not so as to increase substantially the burden on the servient heritage: Provided that such annexation is consistent with the terms of the instrument, decree or revenue proceeding (if any) under which the division was made, and in the case of prescriptive rights, with the user during the prescriptive period. Illustrations (a) A house to which a right of way by a particular path is annexed.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 1

Title: Of Easements Generally

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....The right of every owner of upper land that water naturally rising in or falling on such land, and not passing in defined channels, shall be allowed by the owner of adjacent lower land to run naturally thereto. (j) The right of every owner of land abutting on a natural stream, lake or pond to use and consume its water for drinking, household purposes and watering his cattle and sheep and the right of every such owner to use and consume the water for irrigating such land, and for the purposes of any manufactory situate thereon, provided that he does not thereby cause material injury to other like owner. Explanation.--A natural stream is a stream, whether permanent or intermittent, tide or tideless, on the surface of land or underground, which flows by the operation of nature only and in a natural and known course.

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 2

Title: The Imposition, Acquisition and Transfer of Easements

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....sale took effect. A is entitled to the light, and B cannot build on the land so as to obstruct such light. (g) A the owner of a house, sells IS a factor)' built on adjoining land, B is entitled, as against A, to pollute the air, when necessary, with smoke and vapours from the factory. (h) A, the owner of two adjoining houses, Y and Z, sells Y to B, and retains Z. B is entitled to the benefit of all gutters and drains common to the two houses and necessary for enjoying Y as it was enjoyed when the sale took effect, and A is entitled to the benefit of all the gutters and drains common to the two houses and necessary for enjoying Z as it was enjoyed when the sale look effect. (i) A, the owner of two adjoining buildings, sells one to B, retaining the other. B is entitled to a right to lateral support from A's building, and A is entitled to a right to lateral support from B's building. (j) A, the owner of two adjoining buildings, sells one to B and the other to C. C is entitled to lateral support from B's building, and B is entitled to lateral support from C's building. (k) A grants lands to ti for the purpose of building a house thereon. B is entitled to such amount of.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Section 46

Title: Extinction by Unity of Ownership

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....mortgages his field to C. Then C forecloses both mortgages and becomes thereby absolute owner of both house and field. The right of way is extinguished. (b) The dominant owner acquires only pan of the servient heritage; the easement is not extinguished, except in the ease illustrated in section 41. (c) The servient owner acquires the dominant heritage in connection with a person; the easement is not extinguished. (d) The separate owners of two separate dominant heritages jointly acquire the heritage which is servient to the two, separate heritages; the easements are not extinguished. (e) The joint owners of the dominant heritage jointly acquire the servient heritage; the easement is extinguished. (f) A single right of way exists over two servient heritages for the beneficial enjoyment of a single dominant heritage. The dominant owner acquires only one of the servient heritages. The easement is not extinguished. (g) A has a right of way over B's road. B dedicates the road to the public A's right of ways is not extinguished.

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Section 47

Title: Extinction by Non-enjoyment

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....or that a right accessory thereto was enjoyed, or that dominant owner was not aware of its existence, or that he enjoyed it in ignorance of his right to do so, does not prevent its extinction under this section. An easement is not extinguished under this section-- (a) where the cessation is in pursuance of a contract between the dominant and servient owners; (b) where the dominant heritage is held in co-ownership, and one of the co-owners enjoys the easement within the said period; or (c) where the easement is a necessary easement. Where several heritages are respectively subject to rights of way for the benefit of a single heritage, and the ways are continuous, such rights shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a single easement. Illustration A has, as annexed to his house, rights of way from the high road thither over the heritages X and Z and the intervening heritage Y. Before the twenty years expire, A exercises his right of way over X. His rights of way over V and Z are not extinguished. ______________________ 1. See now the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908).

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Section 4

Title: "easement Defined"

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....is called the servient heritage, and the owner or occupier thereof the servient owner. Explanation.-- In the first and second clauses of this section, the expression "land" includes also things permanently attached to the earth; the expression "beneficial en­joyment" includes also possible convenience, remote advantage, and even a mere amenity; and the expression "to do something" includes removal and appropriation by the dominant owner, for the beneficial enjoyment of the dominant heritage, of any part of the soil of the servient heritage, or anything growing or subsisting thereon. Illustrations (a) A, as the owner of a certain house, has a right of way thither over his neighbour B's land for purposes connected with the beneficial enjoyment of the house. This is an easement. (b) A, as the owner of a certain house, has the right to go on his neighbour B's land, and to take water for the purposes of his household, out of a spring therein. This is an easement. (c) A, as the owner of a certain house, has the right to conduct water from B's stream to supply the fountain in the garden attached to the house. This is an easement. (d) A, as the owner of a certain.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 4

Title: The Disturbance of Easements

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....the evidence of the easement, or by materially diminishing the value of the dominant heritage, is substantial damage within the meaning of this section and section 34. Explanation II.--Where the easement disturbed is a right to the free passage of light passing to the openings in a house, no damage is substantial within the meaning of this section unless it falls within the first Explanation, or interferes materially with the physical comfort of the plaintiff, or prevents him from carrying on his accustomed business in the dominant heritage as beneficially as he had done previous to instituting the suit, Explanation III--Where the easement disturbed is a right to the free passage of air to the openings in a house, damage is substantial within the meaning of this section if it interferes materially with the physical comfort of the plaintiff, though it is not injurious to his health. Illustrations (a) A places a permanent obstruction in a path over which B, as tenant of C's house, has a right of way. This is substantial damage to C, for it may affect the evidence of his reversionary right to the easement. (b) A, as owner of a house, has a right to walk along one side.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Section 38

Title: Extinction by Release

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....nature to be done on the servient heritage, the necessary consequence of which is to prevent his future enjoyment of the easement, and such act is done in pursuance of such authority; (b) where any permanent alteration is made in the dominant heritage of such a nature as to show that the dominant owner intended to cease to enjoy the easement in future. Explanation II.--Mere non-user of an easement is not an implied release within the meaning of this section. Illustrations (a) A, B and C are co-owners of a house to which an easement is annexed. A, without the consent of B and C, releases the easement. This release is effectual only as against A and his legal representative. (b) A grants Ban easement over A's land for the beneficial enjoyment of his house, B assigns the house to C, B then purports to release the easement. The release is ineffectual. (c) A, having the light to discharge his eavesdroppings into B's yard, expressly authorises B to build over this yard to a height which will interfere with the discharge. B builds accordingly. A's easement is extinguished to the extent of the interference. (d) A, having an easement of light to a window, builds up.....