Title 21, Real Property

Whatever remedies the lessee of any real property may have against his immediate lessor, for the breach of any agreement in the lease, he may have against the assigns of the lessor, and the assigns of the lessee may have against the lessor, and his assigns, except upon covenants …

Rent due upon a lease for life may be recovered in the same manner as upon a lease for years. SOURCE: CC '824.

Rent dependent on the life of a person may be recovered after, as well as before, his death. SOURCE: CC '825.

A person having an estate in fee, in remainder or reversion, may maintain an action for any injury done to the inheritance, notwithstanding an intervening estate for life or years, and although, after its commission, COL120106 his estate is transferred, and he has no interest in …

In all leases of lands, or tenements, or of any interest therein, from month to month, the landlord may, upon giving notice in writing at least thirty (30) days before the expiration of the month, change the terms of the lease to take effect at the expiration of the month; provid…

The owner of land in fee has the right to the surface and to everything permanently situated beneath or above it, subject to such restrictions as are provided by law. SOURCE: CC '829.

COL120106 Except where the grant under which the land is held indicates a different intent, the owner of the upland, when it borders on tidewater, takes to ordinary high-water mark; when it borders upon a navigable stream, where there is no tide, the owner takes to the edge of th…

An owner of land bounded by a road or street is presumed to own to the center of the way, but the contrary may be shown. SOURCE: CC '831.

Each coterminous owner is entitled to the lateral and subjacent support which his land receives from the adjoining land, subject to the right of the owner of the adjoining land to make proper and usual excavations on the same for purposes of construction, on using ordinary care a…

Trees whose trunks stand wholly upon the land of one owner belong exclusively to him, although their roots grow into the land of another. SOURCE: CC '833.

Trees whose trunks stand partly on the land of two or more coterminous owners, belong to them in common. SOURCE: CC '834. ---------- COL120106 COL120106