landowner
landowner. One who owns land.
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landowner’s royalty
A share of production or revenues provided for the lessor in the royalty clause of the oil-and-gas lease and paid at the well free of any costs of production. • Traditionally, except in California, the landowner’s royalty has been 1/8 of gross production for oil and 1/8 of the proceeds received from the sale of
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altius tollendi
altius tollendi (al-shee-[schwa]s t[schwa]-len-dI). [Latin “of raising higher”] Roman & civil law. A ser-vitude that allows a landowner to build a house as high as desired.
cornage
cornage (kor-nij). [fr. Anglo-French corne “horn”] Hist. 1. A type of grand-sergeanty military tenure in which the tenant was bound to blow a horn to alert others whenever an enemy approached. 2. A form of tenure entitling a landowner to rent based on the number of horned cattle owned by the tenant. • Cornage may
agreed boundary doctrine
agreed-boundary doctrine. The principle by which adjacent landowners resolve uncertainties over land boun-daries by permanently fixing the boundaries by agreement; specif., the rule that owners of contiguous land may agree on the boundary between the parcels, as long as the actual boundary is uncertain, there is agreement between the two owners about the boundary line,
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fictio
fictio (fik-shee-oh), n. [Latin fr. fingere “to feign”] Roman law. A legal fiction; a legal assumption or supposition (such as that the plaintiff was a citizen) necessary to achieve certain legal results that otherwise would not be obtained. • Legal fictions allowed Roman magistrates (praetors) to expand the law beyond what was strictly allowed by
reservation
reservation. 1. The creation of a new right or interest (such as an easement), by and for the grantor, in real property being granted to another. Cf. EXCEPTION(3). [Cases: Deeds 141; Easements 14. C.J.S. Deeds §§ 279–282, 284; Easements § 60.] implied reservation. An implied easement that reserves in a landowner an easement across a
positive servitude
Civil law. A real servitude allowing a person to lawfully do something on the servient landowner’s property, such as entering the property. — Also termed affirmative servitude.
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