Appurtenant vs In gross

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In Peter’s Pills 42 (“Easement vs Profit à prendre“) we discovered that in the common law system an easement is the right to use someone’s land (e.g., right of way), while a profit à prendre is the right to take something away from someone’s land (e.g., wood; grass etc) . Today we see how these two can be either appurtenant (appartenenti) or in gross (in proprio).

Appurtenant

When an easement or profit à prendre is appurtenant it runs with, or follows, the land and is binding (vincolante) on successive owners of the dominant and servient tenements (tenimenti). The appurtenant right is linked to the ownership of a specific piece of land, the dominant tenement, and it belongs to the land itself, and it is transferred with the land when it is sold or conveyed (ceduto). It cannot be registered with its own title in the land registry. For example, in the UK a right of way over a servient tenement is an appurtenant easement which may be entered as a benefit in the property register for the dominant land and as a notice in the charges register for the servient land.

In gross

On the other hand, when an easement or profit à prendre is in gross, it does not run with the land, and it is not attached to the ownership (legata alla proprietà) of any particular piece of land. It is a right which may be registered with its own title in the land registry system and which may be disposed of (ceduto) independently from any land that the holder owns (di cui il titolare è proprietario).

Examples in gross

An example of an easement in gross is when a utility company has the right to run electric power lines through property which the company does not own. Depending on how this easement was granted, the company may, or may not, have the right to transfer this easement to another company without authorisation from the owner of the land. This easement in gross may be registered in the land register with its own title.

Similarly, examples of a profits à prendre in gross are when a person has been granted fishing rights on land the person does not own or when a company has been granted mining rights (estrazione mineraria). Once again, depending on how this easement was granted, the person or company may, or may not, have the right to sell or otherwise transfer the profit à prendre to another person without authorisation from the owner of the land. Profits à prendre in gross may be registered in the land registry system with their own title.

Thank you, and see you next time for more Peter’s Pills to improve your legal English.

Read more about profits a prendre appurtenant or in gross here: “Practice guide 16: profits a prendre“.

Legal English – Sommario delle Lezioni

• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 63 – Machine translations
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 62 – Legal Timelines
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 61 – Liens
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 60 – Test your Legal English
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 59 – Appurtenent vs In gross
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 58 – Building societies and Banks
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 57 – Valid, void and voidable contracts
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 56 – Rescission
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 55 – Golden expressions
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 54 – Pre-emption right vs Right of first refusal
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 53 – What do we mean by “agent” of a company?
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 52 – Voting at a meeting
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 51 – Contracts vs Deeds
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 50 – Executive and Non-Executive Directors
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 49 – Transfer of shares vs transmission of shares
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 48 – They, them, their for singular nouns
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 47 – Jointly and severally
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 46 – Invoice words
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 45 – Quotation
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 44 – Gazumping and Gazundering
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 43 – English words that the English do not understand
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 42 – Easement vs Profit à prendre
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 41 -er, -or and -ee names
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 40 – The Objects Clause
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 39 – When is Latin hot, and when is it not?
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 38 – Default
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 37 – Company Agent
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 36 – Injunction (false freind)
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 35 – Mortgage
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 34 – Freehold, Leasehold and Commonhold estates
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 33 – Transferor, Transferee and Transmittee
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 32 – Tax evasion, tax mitigation and tax avoidance
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 31 – Numbers
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 30 – Ordinary resolutions vs special resolutions
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 29 – AGM vs EGM
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 28 – A going concern
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 27 – Collocations: Violate, breach, break, disobey and infringe
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 26 – Company meeting words
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 25 – Mortgagor vs Mortgagee
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 24 – Fixed charges vs Floating charges
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 23 – Doctrine
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 22 – Construe
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 21 – Sign vs Execute
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 20 – The closing statement
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 19 – Writing Business Emails
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 18 – Limited companies
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 17 – Annual Accounts
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 16 – Meetings
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 15 – Attorney-at-law vs Attorney-in-fact
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 14 – Here and there compounds
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 13 – Subject Matter
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 12 – The clear days rule
• Legal English – Peter’s Pills – Lesson 11 – Shareholder, Member or Holder of shares?
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 10 – Competition Law
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 9 – Lasting Power of Attorney
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 8 – Guardianship
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 7 – Damage vs Damages
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 6 – Legal Doublets
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 5 – Escrow
• Legal English: Peter’s Pills – Lesson 4 – Memorandum of Association vs Articles of Association

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