property
profit a prendre
A profit a prendre, often just called a profit, is the right to enter another person's land and remove something from it, such as timber, gravel, minerals, crops, or fish. It is a nonpossessory interest similar to an easement but includes the right to take resources. A profit can be appurtenant to neighboring land or held in gross by an individual or company, and it is usually created in writing.
- Exam tip
- An easement is a right to use land; a profit adds the right to take something from it. A license, by contrast, is revocable permission, not an interest in land.
- Example
- A lumber company buys the right to enter a ranch and cut timber for ten years; that right is a profit a prendre.
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