DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 15.2A
Duty to Provide Safe Ingress and Egress
DUTY OF PROPERTY OWNER TO PROVIDE
SAFE INGRESS AND EGRESS FROM ITS PROPERTY
A landowner has a duty to provide a business invitee with safe ingress and
egress to its property. Ingress means the entrance or way onto the premises. Egress
means the exit or way off the premises. Ordinarily, a landowner does not have a
duty to warn an invitee of a danger located off the premises. But if the actual location
of the hazard is immediately adjacent to the place of ingress or egress from the
premises, the landowner has a duty to warn of the danger or protect against the
danger in order to provide its invitees with a safe way onto and off the premises. If
the danger, however, is so apparent that a business invitee can reasonably be
expected to notice it and protect against it, the condition itself constitutes adequate
warning and the landowner has no further duty to warn or protect the invitee.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
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- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
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