tour d'echelle

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tour d'echelle - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TOUR D'ECHELLE, French law. Tour d'echelle is a right which the owner of an 
  estate has of placing ladders on his neighbor's property to facilitate the 
  reparation of a party wall, or of buildings which are supported by that 
  wall. It is a species of servitude. Lois des Bat. part 1, c. 3, sect. 2, 
  art. 9, Sec. 1. 
       2. In another sense by this term, or echellage, is understood the space 
  of ground left unoccupied around a building for the purpose of enabling the 
  owner to repair it with convenience; this is not a servitude, but an actual 
  corporeal property. Td. part 1, c. 3, sect. 2, art. 9, Sec. 2.