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determinable easement

determinable easement see easement

Hesia

Hesia, an easement, Du Cange.

Easement

a profit a prendre (q.v.), which confers a right to take something from the servient tenement. Instances of easements are rights of way, light, support, or flow of water. Easements have been classified as positive, such as

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Notice

OF PROPERTY ACT, 1925], or acquired after 1925, and if registrable, not registered; (3) restrictive covenants and equitable easements created before 1926; (4) estate contracts made before 1926, unless the benefit has been acquired after 1925 and

easement

: an easement that will terminate upon the happening of a specific event or contingency easement appurtenant pl: easements appurtenant : an easement attached to and benefiting a dominant estate and burdening a servient estate compare easement

Prescription

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

Lost grant

Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had

prescription

the beginning, dictate, order; partly from Latin praescription- praescriptio order] 1 : acquisition of an interest (as an easement) in real property that is usually less than a fee by long-term, continuous, open, and hostile use and

Water and watercourse

only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the

Lease and licence

Municipal Board, Bareilly, AIR 1974 SC 396 (398): (1974) 1 SCC 202. (Transfer of Property Act, s. 105; Easements Act, s. 52) The difference between a 'lease' and 'licence' is to be determined by finding out the

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