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Subjacent Support

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An easement of support of the soil as against an adjoining tract of land, so that the dominant tract shall not fall in by reason of undermining or withdrawal of support from beneath. Tiedeman, Real Prop. § 618; 66 Pa. St. 429.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The right to have one’s soil intact as against the excavations of his neighbor.