profit à prendre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.

Word forms

profit à prendre profits à prendre profit a prendre profit-à-prendre

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Law French profit à prendre (“profit to be taken”).

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