Definitions for "Surface Rights"
Related Terms:
Mineral rights, Subsurface rights, Easement, Easements, Bundle of rights, Property rights, Appurtenances, Servitude, Profit à prendre, Interest, Usufruct, Ownership, Development rights, Easement rights, Water right, Appurtenance, Right of way, Quiet enjoyment, Dominant tenement, Ingress and egress, Water rights, Air rights, Prescriptive easement, Squatter, Tenure in land, Easement in gross, Right of ingress, Fee simple estate, Adverse possession, Vest, Notorious possession, Servient tenement, Cession, Tenure, Access right, Easement appurtenant, Negative easement, Incorporeal rights, Servient estate, Land tenure, Fee simple ownership, Fee simple, Riparian rights, Grantor, Undivided interest, Running with the land, Right to use, Rtu, Severance, Reservation
The rights (i.e., easements) to use the surface of land, including the right to drill or mine through the surface when subsurface rights are involved.
Surface ownership of a tract of land from which the mineral rights have been severed.
Surface ownership of land andmineral ownership below the surface can be different. Severance sometimes means conveyance of surface and minerals separately.
the right to ownership of the substances, matter, and things which are on the surface of a real estate property or land.Surface rights do not include air rights, or subsurface rights, which are separate.
The ownership of the surface of land only, where mineral rights are reserved. Those reserved to the owner of the land beneath which ore is being mined. The right of a mineral owner or an oil and gas lessee to use so much of the surface of land as may be reasonably necessary for the conduct of operations under the lease.
The rights to work on the surface of the land.
A right or easement granted with mineral rights, enabling the possessor of the mineral rights to drill or mine through the surface.
Rights to enter upon and use the surface of a parcel of land, usually in connection with an oil and gas lease or other mineral lease. They may be "implied" by the language of the lease (no explicit reservation or exception of the surface rights) or "explicitly" set forth.
A legal interest in the use or occupation of the top of land as opposed to subsurface or mineral rights.
The right to use and modify the surface area of real estate. In Texas, surface rights are subservient to mineral rights. In the absence of an agreement to the contrary, an oil driller who owns the mineral rights may operate anywhere on the surface of the property.
Ownership rights in a parcel of real estate that are limited to the surface and do not include air above the property (air rights) or minerals below the surface (subsurface rights).
The rights (easements) to use the surface of the land. If subsurface rights are involved, the right also to drill or mine beneath the surface.