Wayleave
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A right of way over or through land for the carriage of minerals from a mine or quarry. It is an easement ((?. v.), being a species of the class called "rights of way," and is generally created by express grant or reservation. A wayleave rent may be a fixed annual sum, or a sum payable according to the quantity of minerals drawn over the way, or a combination of the two. Bainb. Mines (4th Ed.) 211 et seq.; Elph. Conv. 264.