California CodesCivil Code - CIVDivision 2 — PropertyPart 2 — Real or Immovable Property [755 – 945.5]Title 2 — Estates in Real PropertyChapter 3 — ServitudesSection 801

The following land burdens, or servitudes upon land, may be attached to other land as incidents or appurtenances, and are then called easements:

1. The right of pasture;

2. The right of fishing;

3. The right of taking game;

4. The right-of-way;

5. The right of taking water, wood, minerals, and other things;

6. The right of transacting business upon land;

7. The right of conducting lawful sports upon land;

8. The right of receiving air, light, or heat from or over, or discharging the same upon or over land;

9. The right of receiving water from or discharging the same upon land;

10. The right of flooding land;

11. The right of having water flow without diminution or disturbance of any kind;

12. The right of using a wall as a party wall;

13. The right of receiving more than natural support from adjacent land or things affixed thereto;

14. The right of having the whole of a division fence maintained by a coterminous owner;

15. The right of having public conveyances stopped, or of stopping the same on land;

16. The right of a seat in church;

17. The right of burial;

18. The right of receiving sunlight upon or over land as specified in Section 801.5.

Notes

Defines listed servitudes attached to other land as easements, including rights involving pasture, fishing, game, passage, resource taking, business, sports, air, light, heat, water, flooding, support, walls, fences, public conveyances, church seating, burial, and sunlight. When such listed land burdens are attached as incidents or appurtenances to other land, they are called easements.

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