Egress - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: egressegress
egress [Medieval Latin egressus, literally, act of going out, departure, from Latin, from egredi to go out, from e- out + gradi to make one's way] 1 : the action or right of going or coming out 2 : a place or means of going out or exiting compare ingress [i-gres] vi : to go or come out ...
Egression
The act of going egress...
Ingress, Egress, and Regress
Ingress, Egress, and Regress, free entry into, going forth of, and returning from a place....
ingress
ingress 1 : the act of entering 2 : the power or liberty of access compare egress ...
Blockade
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress or the reception of supplies as the blockade of the ports of an enemy...
Egress
The act of going out or leaving or the power to leave departure...
Open
Free of access not shut up not closed affording unobstructed ingress or egress not impeding or preventing passage not locked up or covered over applied to passageways as an open door window road etc also to inclosed structures or objects as open houses boxes baskets bottles etc also to means of communication or approach by water or land as an open harbor or roadstead...
Shut
To close so as to hinder ingress or egress as to shut a door or a gate to shut ones eyes or mouth...
Dharna
Dharna, holding a dharna by itself may not amount to contempt. But if by holding a dharna access to the courts is hindered and the officers of the court and members of the public are not allowed free ingress and egress, or the proceedings in court are otherwise disrupted, disturbed or hampered, the dharna may amount to contempt because the administration of justice would be obstructed, J.R. Parashar v. Prasant Bhashan, (2001) 6 SCC 735 (746)...
Will, Estate at
Will, Estate at. This estate entitled the grantee or lessee to the possession of land during the pleasure of both the grantor and himself, yet it creates no sure or durable right, and is bounded by no definite limits as to duration. It must be at the reciprocal will of both parties expressly or by implication (Co. Litt. 55 a), and the dissent of either determines it. The grantee cannot transfer the estate to another, although after he has entered into possession he may accept a release of the inheritance from the grantor, for there exists a privity between them. It must end at the death of either party, for death deprives a person of the power of having any will. If a lessee for years accept an estate at will in the property lease, his term of years would in law be surrendered.An estate at will is created either by the stipulation or express agreement of the parties, or by construc-tion of law.S. 54 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, enacts that a lease by parol for a longer term than t...
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