Easement
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An Easement is the right to use a property without taking possession.
An easement for profit (profit-à-prendre in French) is a right to enter another’s land to extract something of value from it (as by mining, drilling, logging, fishing, or hunting). This kind of commercially purposed easement is virtually always assignable. See Restatement of Property § 489 comment b.
