(Updated in 2019) (Amendment added as per Act 34 of 2019) (Act 5 of 1882) [17th February, 1882] An Act to define and amend the Law relating to Easements and Licenses. Preamble.- WHEREAS it is expedient to define and amend the law relating to easements and licenses. It is hereby enacted as follows:-- Prefatory Note.-- For SOR see Gazette of India 1880, Pt. V., p. 494; for R.S. Com., see ibid., Pt. V., p. 1021; and for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., 1881, Supplement, pp. 687 and 766; and ibid., Supplement, p. 172. (Editors Note: Since the Text of the Statement of Objects and Reasons is lengthy, it is given at the end of the Statute)

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S.1 Short title.-

S.2 Savings.-

S.¹[ 3 Construction of certain references to Act 15 of 1877 and Act 9 of 1871.--

S.4 "Easement" defined.-

S.6 Easements for limited time or on condition.-

S.7 Easements restrictive of certain rights.-

S.8 Who may impose easements.-

S.9 Servient owners.-

S.11 Lessee.-

S.12 Who may acquire easements.-

S.13 Easements of necessity and quasi-easements.-

S.14 Direction of way of necessity.-

S.15 Acquisition by prescription.--

S.16 Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient heritage.-

S.17 Rights which cannot be acquired by prescription.-

S.18 Customary easements.--

S.19 Transfer of dominant heritage passes easement.-

S.20 Rules controlled by contract or title.--

S.21 Bar to use unconnected with enjoyment.-

S.22 Exercise of easement: Confinement of exercise of easement.--

S.23 Right to alter mode of enjoyment.--

S.24 Right to do acts to secure enjoyment.--

S.25 Liability for expenses necessary for preservation of easements.--

S.26 Liability for damage from want of repair.-

S.27 Servient owner not bound to do anything.--

S.28 Extent of easements.--

S.29 Increase of easement.--

S.30 Partition of dominant heritage.-

S.31 Obstruction in case of excessive user.-

S.32 Right to enjoyment without disturbance.--

S.33 Suit for disturbance of easement.-

S.34 When cause of action arises for removal of support.-

S.35 Injunction to restrain disturbance.-

S.36 Abatement of obstruction of easement.--

S.37 Extinction by dissolution of right of servient owner.-

S.38 Extinction by release.-

S.39 Extinction by revocation.-

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

S.41 Extinction on termination of necessity.-

S.42 Extinction of useless easement.-

S.43 Extinction by permanent change in dominant heritage.-

S.44 Extinction on permanent alteration of servient heritage by superior force.--

S.45 Extinction by destruction of either heritage.--

S.46 Extinction by unity of ownership.-

S.47 Extinction by non-enjoyment.-

S.48 Extinction of accessory rights.--

S.49 Suspension of easement.-

S.50 Servient owner not entitled to require continuance.-

S.51 Revival of easements.-

S.52 "License" defined.-

S.53 Who may grant license.--

S.54 Grant may be expressed or implied.-

S.55 Accessory licenses annexed by law.-

S.56 License when transferable.-

S.57 Grantor's duty to disclose defects.-

S.58 Grantor's duty not to render property unsafe.-

S.59 Grantor's transferee not bound by license.-

S.60 License when revocable.-

S.61 Revocation express or implied.--

S.62 License when deemed revoked.--

S.63 Licensee's rights on revocation.-

S.64 Licensee's rights on eviction.-

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S.10 Lessor and mortgagor.-