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ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACCESS (See also:Lat. accessus) , approach, or the means of approaching. In See also:law, the word is used in various connexions. The presumption of a See also:child's See also:legitimacy is negatived if it be proved that a See also:husband has not had access to his wife within such a See also:period of See also:time as would admit of his being the See also:father. (See LEGITIMACY.) In the law of easements, every See also:person who has See also:land adjoining a public road or a public navigable See also:river has a right of access to it from his land. So, also, every person has a right of access to See also:air and See also:light from an See also:ancient window. For the right of access of parents to See also:children under the guardianship of the See also:court, see See also:INFANT.

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