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Mining With Mr. Justice Holmes, E. F. Roberts
Mining With Mr. Justice Holmes, E. F. Roberts
Vanderbilt Law Review
All of us are probably familiar with the notion that the owner of mineral rights may owe some duty of care to support the owner of the fee in his or her surface use of the land. This principle results in a binary system (the surface estate and the right of sup-port) that can be treated easily in tort law. In Pennsylvania the coal companies had owned vast areas of land. The companies had sold much of this land, reserving not only the coal, but "the right to. ..remove the same without incurring in any way liability for any damage …
The Easement In Gross Revisited: Transferability And Divisibility Since 1945, Alan D. Hegi
The Easement In Gross Revisited: Transferability And Divisibility Since 1945, Alan D. Hegi
Vanderbilt Law Review
Courts have disagreed about the nature, obligations, and privileges that accompany the easement in gross. Generally, an easement is an interest in land which gives the easement holder the right to use that land for a specific purpose, free from the will of the landowner. An easement is in gross when the benefit from the use of another's land inures to the easement holder personally, rather than to the holder's land. The land that is subject to the holder's right of use is the servient tenement. Courts agree on these basic principles of an easement in gross, but have disagreed …