or profit À prendre [prÄ -fət-Ä -prÄ n-dər] n pl: profits À prendre or: profits À prendre [Anglo-French, literally, profit to be taken] : a right, privilege, ...

French term meaning “right of taking.” A profit a prendre is a right to take something off the land of another person. It is a right to enter the land of another person and to take some profit of the [..]

At common law, the right to enter the land of another and take away some fruit of the soil. In many states mineral rights or oil and gas leases are classified as profits a prendre.

 

A right to enter land you do not own and take or remove the produce or part of the soil of that land, eg rights of common, of pasture, of vesture and herbage, cropping, gravel or timber.

The right to take something from somebody else’s land (8.8). Proprietary estoppel