Ingress, egress, and regress are legal terms referring respectively to entering, leaving, and returning to a

property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, re ...

or country. The term also refers to the

rights Rights are law, legal, social, or ethics, ethical principles of freedom or Entitlement (fair division), entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal sy ...

of a person (such as a lessee) to do so as regards a specific property. The term was also used in the Ingress into India Ordinance, 1914 when the British government wanted to screen, detain, and restrict the movement of people returning to India, particularly those involved in the Ghadar Movement. In a sale and purchase contract, it means that the buyer gets full rights to insure the property according to Standard A.

References

*''Black's Law Dictionary'' (5th edition). West: St. Paul (MN), 1979. Property law {{law-stub

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