The Easements Act,1882

This 2025 edition of The Indian Easements Act, 1882 (Act 5 of 1882) reproduces the classic property-law statute verbatim along with state amendments affecting irrigation easements, urban right of way, and coastal right-to-access provisions.

Concise short comments link landmark Supreme-Court easement cases (Venus, Ramdas, Dilawar Singh), dominant-servient tenement tests, and recent rulings on digital-utility corridors.

Core statutory coverage

• Creation of easements — grant, prescription (20-year / 60-year public land), necessity & quasi-easements.

• Types of easements — continuous/discontinuous, apparent/non-apparent, positive/negative.

• Transfer & division — extinction by merger, suspension and revival rules.

• Liability & remedies — injunctions, damages for obstruction, easementary right-of-air-&-light.

• State variations — Maharashtra (urban redevelopment), Kerala (water-way easements) & others.

This edition is particularly suited for

• Real-estate lawyers, surveyors & title-search firms.

• Architects and utility companies laying underground infrastructure.

• Revenue officials and civil-court judges deciding right-of-way suits.

• AIBE candidates and law students in property-law courses.