profit à prendren.

1648 J. March Reports 17 It was adjudged, that Inhabitants of a town by custom, should have an Easement over the Freehold, or in the Freehold of a Stranger, but not profit Apprender.

1658 in E. Coke Rep. (1826) vi. 60b They claim not a charge, or profit apprender in the soil of another, but a discharge in their own land.

1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 232 Toll may be appurtenant to a Manor, as well as any other profit a prendre.

a1689 W. Watson Clergy-man's Law (1701) xlvii. 408 A Lay-man cannot have tithes by Prescription, yet he may have the tenth Shock as a Temporal Profit apprender.

1783 W. Newman Compl. Conveyancer III. 25 A person who has but an Interesse Termini,..either of the land itself, or of any profit apprender out of it,..may grant and transfer this over to another.

1861 Opinion of M. Hall McAllister (U.S. vs. A. Castillero) 9 Ejectment lies for a coal mine..upon the principle that it is not to be considered as a bare profit apprender.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iii. 127 If the right is to take a portion of the soil or the produce of the soil of another, the right is called a profit a prendre.

1908 Times 29 June 4/2 The very idea of a que estate seems to involve some relation between the needs of the estate or its owner and the extent of the profit a prendre.

1956 T. O. Elias Nature Afr. Customary Law x. 174 The presence on the land of the honey-farming rights..is possibly analogous in its legal implications to the existence of a profit-à-prendre on a tract of land in any English countryside.

1998 Mod. Law Rev. 61 490 An analogy may be made with the licence attached to a profit à prendre, or other recognised proprietory right.