ingress, egress, and regress
English
Noun
- (property law, of a property or land) The right to enter, leave, and reenter.
- 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
- It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage—not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air—but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad—tantum valet, my father would say, quantum sonat.
Further reading
ingress, egress, and regress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Bryan A. Garner, editor (2015), “ingress, egress, and regress”, in Black's Law Dictionary, tenth abridged edition, Thomson Reuters, →ISBN, page 657
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