Revoked Consent Ends Entry Privilege
Ivan Ivanov receives permission from the owner to enter a warehouse to inspect goods. After completing the inspection, the owner revokes consent. Ivan must leave promptly using the ordinary exit route.
Also known as: ingress · egress · regress · ingress and egress · right of ingress egress and regress · right of access · easement of access
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
A right of access allowing entry onto, departure from, and reentry to land or premises. The right arises by grant, prescription, necessity, or consent and is limited to the scope of its creation.
Ivan Ivanov receives permission from the owner to enter a warehouse to inspect goods. After completing the inspection, the owner revokes consent. Ivan must leave promptly using the ordinary exit route.
Isla Ireland attends a criminal trial as a member of the public. The judge attempts to close the courtroom during testimony. The closure order fails because the public holds a right of access to the proceedings.
Ibrahim Iqbal purchases a parcel that lacks road frontage. The deed includes an easement across adjacent land for ingress and egress. The easement permits reasonable use to reach the new parcel for construction.
Select any source to read its text and confirm it supports the definition.
Iris Energy operates vessels on navigable waters. It claims a right to cross private land to reach the waterway. The claim rests on the historic right of access tied to navigation.
Ideal Solutions challenges a zoning rule that blocks its planned driveway. The company must show that the rule directly impairs its own ingress and egress rights to establish standing.
Innova Pharmaceuticals owns a shopping center. State law requires it to allow leafleting on its walkways. The requirement preserves public access without converting the property into a public forum.
The scope is fixed by the language of the grant or by the historic use that created the right. Later changes in intensity are permitted only if they remain reasonably necessary and do not unreasonably burden the servient estate.
Supporting sources
Yes. Once consent is revoked and the entrant knows or has reason to know of the revocation, the privilege to remain ends. The entrant retains only a limited privilege of reasonable egress.
A court may adopt the code provision when it was designed to protect the class of persons injured, the interest invaded, and the precise hazard that occurred. Violation then constitutes negligence per se if causation and damages are shown.
…not force the newspaper to print a retraction, because a judicially compelled retraction, like a "remedy such as an enforceable right of access," entails "governmental coercion" as to content, which "at once brings about a confrontation with the express provisions of the First Amendment and the judicial gloss on that Amendment…