Reviewed by Casa Academy and updated July 29, 2026 using the current DBPR checklist and Pearson VUE scheduling guidance.
Ingress and Egress
Ingress and egress are the rights to enter and exit a parcel of land, essential for usable ownership and often created by fee ownership, easements, or public road frontage, without which landlocked property may be unusable or less valuable.
Exam context
Identify ingress/egress as access rights. Easement by necessity may be implied for landlocked parcels. Riparian rights govern water access separately from road ingress.
Legal access requirements
Buyers expect legal routes to public roads. Parcels surrounded by others may require recorded easements across neighbors' land. Zoning and fire codes also mandate adequate emergency access. Title insurers flag missing ingress/egress as a defect curable by easement acquisition or boundary agreement.
Easements and licenses
Ingress easements may be appurtenant to a dominant tenement or personal in gross for utilities. A mere license to cross can be revocable unlike a recorded easement. Agents must verify access is legal and permanent, not a neighbor's informal permission that could end on sale.
Examples
Landlocked lot
A buyer purchases a wooded parcel with no road frontage. Courts may imply an easement by necessity over a neighbor's tract if common ownership historically existed and no other reasonable access exists.
Shared driveway
Two homes use a recorded reciprocal easement for ingress and egress over a private gravel lane maintained per written cost-sharing terms in the deed.
Keep studying
Related terms
- Easement by necessityImplied access when land would otherwise be landlocked.
- Dominant vs servient estateParties in an appurtenant access easement.
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Sources
- Cornell LII: easement(Cornell Legal Information Institute)