United Kingdom

Eardley v Granville

(1876) 3 Ch D 826

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court of Chancery (Sir George Jessel MR, Master of the Rolls)

Year1876

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where minerals under copyhold land belong to the lord of the manor but possession is in the copyholder, the lord (or his lessee) may use the underground space left by working those minerals only for purposes connected with extracting minerals from the same copyhold lands; using such workings to carry 'foreign' minerals from other land is a trespass.

Area of Law

General

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