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Accessus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from accedere, to goto.] Access, approach, admission, ingress; the liberty of going into a place. Accessus et reces»us; the Uberty of going on and off another's land, for the purpose of hunting, drawing water, &c. nract* fol.

231 b. 282.

The same liberty, as applied to the enjoyment of a right of common, was called ingressus et eyressus, ingress and egress; a phrase still in use. Id. ibid. See Ingress, Egress.