1) You can go from lower court first for easement way till your plot.
2) From High Court directly you can ask for injunction.
Hi, We have an agricultural land & 3years back a new ring road has come and our land is 70 feet away from the Ring Road, our neighbours are not allowing us to access our land, they have barricted our land fully. For which we would like to file a case against them, under the easement act for way. Note: in any of the land records there is nowhere it is mentioned about road or Rasta, as this is an agricultural land. We would like to file a case directly in the high Court, is this possible, if Yes what justifications will help us so that our case in high Court will be accepted, as we have a plan to set up an manufacturing unit in the land. Or we need to go through the lower courts. Thank you,
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1) You can go from lower court first for easement way till your plot.
2) From High Court directly you can ask for injunction.
You cannot file suit directly in HC to claim easmentary right of necessity
you have to file suit in trial court to claim easmentary right of necessity as there is no other access to your land
you can file suit for getting easement rights overs the path but it depends upon various factors like if you dont have any other way. .
Suits could be directly filed in the High Court.
See high court won't accept case directly as it is not original jurisdiction you have to file before the Revenue / civil.court for easementary right of necessity for way.
1. IF the remedy lies in the Lower Courts, THEN even if you file in High Court, the High Court, will simply remand the matter to the lower court, for lack of jurisdiction.
2. You should also file Police FIR, against the errant neighbors for restraining and intimidating you by restricting your access to your land.
3. IF the Police does not take action, THEN you can file private criminal case u/s 156(3) Cr.P.C., in the local Magistrates court, seeking directions to the Police to investigate and file charge sheet. The said Person may come down for settlement.
4. IF all above fails, THEN file WP in HC, for necessary directions, to the dist. collector.
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In the case of an agricultural land the revenue courts have the jurisdiction and hence the same should be approached and hc cannot be approached in case of a statutory remedy existing.
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You need to approach lower court for the same. Else if you directly approach high court you need to file writ petition but chances are there the said writ petition will not be entertained.
Dear Sir,
You can try by filing a Writ Petition under Art. 226 of Constitution of India. If it directs to approach the Civil Court then file it in Civil Court. The law is as follows.
Understand Your Easement Rights on Your Property
ust because your name is on title of the new home you’ve purchased doesn’t necessarily mean that no one else has any legal right to a portion of your lot. It’s called an easement, and it can give your neighbors and other entities a right to access a certain part of your land in some circumstances.
Imagine making one last visit to a home you’ve just agreed to purchase, only to see the neighbor in the back cutting through your driveway to get access to the road. While you may initially assume the person is trespassing, he may actually have the right to cut through if an easement exists.
Before you agree to buy a home, it’s in your best interests to find out if there are easements on the property (which there most likely are), and understand all there is to know about them.
What Exactly is an Easement, Anyway?
Simply put, an easement is a legal right given to cross or use another person’s land for a specific purpose. The key here is the “specific purpose,” which needs to be defined in detail. That means that your neighbor can’t arbitrarily put his patio furniture or start a vegetable garden on your land. The easement doesn’t give a person the right to possession; instead, it only gives the right to use it for specified intentions.
Stated otherwise, when a person or entity is granted an easement, only the legal right to use the property is granted, but title to the land is still retained by the owner. Easements are more commonly granted to utility companies, such as telephone or electrical companies to run cable and power lines. But sometimes easements can be granted to neightbors who need to cross through your land in order to access the street.
Three Main Types of Easements
Just about every property has an easement. As a property owner, you have the right to know what type of easement your land is attached to, and how it will affect the enjoyment of your property.
Easement in gross. The rights of utility companies to step foot on your property, as described above, are common, and are referred to as easements in gross. This is the most common form of easements, which grant utility companies the right to enter a property at no charge to provide their services. The majority of these easements are known about and easy to detect, such as easements for telephone and cable lines, and are typically discovered through a title search. But sewer and water lines aren’t always known about and are often discovered after digging starts to put in a swimming pool, for example.
If easements are discovered this way, and were not disclosed to you when you purchased the property, any reduction in the value of your home (should that occur) may be compensated through your owner’s title insurance policy. If the easement was known to the city and properly recorded, but you weren’t informed of it when you bought the place, the title insurance provider is obligated to pay you for any loss of property value as a result of the easement.
Easement Appurtenant. This type of easement can’t be transferred when the property sells, and as such, these easements are said to “run with the land.” That means that they’re part of the land’s ownership, and can’t be transferred with the seller upon the sale of the property. Easements for driveways, sidewalks and roads and sidewalks over a neighbor’s land, for example, fall under this type of easement.
Let’s say your neighbor is granted an easement appurtenant in order for him to access the roadway from his driveway. When he sells his property, the new owner will have the same limited right to cross your land to get to the street. The current and future owners can’t use your property for any other purposes other than to access the road. This type of easement should have been communicated to you when you bought your home, so you know that your land will be used in this manner, and you won’t be unpleasantly surprised.
The majority of easements appurtenant are created by an agreement between property owners or when a subdivision is created. Sometimes landlocked parcels of land that have no access to roadways are subject to an easement appurtenant by necessity over an adjacent piece of land. In this case, it needs to be proven that at some point in the past both properties were privately owned by the same person or entity.
Prescriptive Easements. These types of easements are the ones that cause the most animosity between neighbors, since they are created without the permission of the owner who’s property is being used. The use of prescriptive easements can be shared and don’t have to be exclusive, which means property owners are often not aware when a neighbor is granted the easement.
To illustrate, let’s say your neighbor builds a fence along what is assumed to be the boundary of the property. A few years pass, and one day your neighbor serves you with a quiet title lawsuit in an effort to establish a prescriptive easement to that portion of the land. After obtaining a survey, it’s discovered that your neighbor actually constructed the fence 3 feet into your side of the property’s boundary, and is now entitled to a prescriptive easement.
After the required number of years of hostile use have passed (depending on the state), the neighbor can legally acquire a prescriptive easement. The key here is that a hostile environment has to exist; a prescriptive easement can’t arise if you give permission for your neighbor to use and take that portion of the land.
What Are Your Rights?
If the house you buy comes with an easement, you’ll have to comply. If your new property is the only access that your neighbors have to the street, you can’t legally block them from getting there. If you did, you’d be considered to be trespassing on an easement by necessity, and you can even be slapped with a lawsuit.
Do Easements Limit Your Ability to Make Improvements on Your Home?
You’ll definitely want to be in-the-know if you plan on putting an addition to your home or building deck. If you erect a patio over top of a portion of the land that a neighbor is legally allowed to cross through to gain access to the street, not only could you be forced to take it down, you could also wind up in court. That’s why it’s crucial to find out if there are any easements on a property before you decide to buy it.
Can You Fight an Easement?
You might be able to successfully challenge an easement, but only if the circumstances are right. And be prepared to take the battle to court. It could be a simple matter if the holder of the easement – such as your neighbor – agrees to terminate the easement agreement. Sometimes easements might also have an expiration date, after which it no longer exists.
But many other times it can be tough to challenge an easement, particularly when it comes to prescriptive easements. These types of easements may be able to be challenged by claims that the part of the land was abandoned. If that’s the case, you’ll probably want to speak with a real estate lawyer for advice.
When you agree to buy a home, it’s in your best interests to find out everything there is to know about it. Just as important as it is to have a home inspector on the job to uncover any physical defects, it’s just as important to find out if any current easements will compromise your enjoyment of your new home.
1. No case can be filed directly in court unless it is writ petition .
2. If this land is the only way to have access of your land and you have been using the land for more than 15 years then you can exercise easementary rights over this.
3.In hat event you can file a suit for declaration and seek injunction so your neighbour is restrained from disturbance to your free usage of the pathway.
Thank you all & over whelmed with the suggestions, so in short the summary is 1. I cant bypass the lower courts. 2. for injunction order i shall approach the high court. 3. Shall forward a notice to the Mandal revenue officer, regional development officer & collector for not converting the dotted land or unclaimed land to Pattdar land under the Government Orders. 4. shall forward a notice to the sub-register office for stopping the further transactions. 5. shall forward a notice to all the neighbors for easement of way. but Mr.Mohammad Mujeeb has not specified under which rule/act/circumstance, my suite will be entertained in the high court directly.
1) You can first apply in the Tahsildar office for land demarcation and road til your plot and than you can lower court of civil matter.
2) Once you apply for your problem with Tahsildar automatic other neighbors will come to know.
In your matter the jurisdiction for suit is directly HC then you can approach HC else only in writ petition
See you have to file an application along the suit seeking interim relief pending the suit. Further the notice can be given to the MRO in the regard. Further notice to neighbours in the case is not required,
Dear Sir,
My answers are as follows:
1. I cant bypass the lower courts.
Ans: Normally you cannot bypass the Lower Court.
2. for injunction order i shall approach the high court.
Ans: The High Court will not entertain the suit for injunction.
3. Shall forward a notice to the Mandal revenue officer, regional development officer & collector for not converting the dotted land or unclaimed land to Pattdar land under the Government Orders.
Ans: Yes, you can issue a legal notice to the concerned authorities.
4. shall forward a notice to the sub-register office for stopping the further transactions.
Ans: Even if you send notice to Sub-Registrar it is not binding upon him however after getting injunction order get it entered in relevant column of encumbrance register and registers maintained by concerned authorities.
5. shall forward a notice to all the neighbors for easement of way.
Ans: You can do so.
6. but Mr.Mohammad Mujeeb has not specified under which rule/act/circumstance, my suite will be entertained in the high court directly.
Ans: It is a general notice and you need not state any provision of law.
Since no action against the state lies therefore a case before the HC can not be directly filed until and unless the HC of your state has original pecuniary jurisdiction based on the value of the suit
You cannot approach high court directly for this before exhausting remedies in the lower court.Since you have filed the case in the lower court, yo concentrate in the case and await the result