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except by showing that the enjoyment was by some agreement in writing. (2) Claims to ways or 'other' easements or use of water are prima facie indefeasible after twenty years' uninterrupted enjoyment, and absolutely indefeasible after forty

Person interested

Act; and a person shall be deemed to be interested in land if he is interested in an easement affecting the land, General Government Servants Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. v. Wahaz Uddin, AIR 1981 SC 866 (867,

hostile

to or incompatible with the interests of a property owner [a use] see also adverse possession at possession easement by prescription at easement, prescription b : unwelcome by or contrary to the interests of corporate stockholders or

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Way

s. 2, it is enacted that no claim by custom, prescription, or grant, to any way or other easement, or to any watercourse or the use of any water which has been enjoyed twenty years without interruption,

gross

alimony at alimony 2 : independently existing, belonging to a person, and not attached to land see also easement in gross at easement vt : to earn or bring in (an overall total) exclusive of deductions (as

Party-wall

owners: (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an easement or right in the other to have it maintained as a dividing wall between the two tenements: (4)

Free-board, or freebord

along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be of the nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept

Dominant tenement

Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See

Occupier and owner

Occupier and owner, s. 4, Easement Act shows, that not merely the 'owner' but even an 'occupier' may acquire an 'easement' and there is

way of necessity

way of necessity :easement by implication at easement

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