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| | PA 3rd Estate |
 | | "It is well recognized in Pennsylvania that there may be three estates in land, namely, coal, surface, and right of support, so that one person may own the coal, another the surface, and the third the right of support. |
 | | In effect, the Pennsylvania court recognized that a prior owner in the chain of title to the minerals and surface had retained the estate in support when conveying each of the other estates. |
 | | Pennsylvania is unlike any other state in that, here, the right of a overlying strata of land, if owned as an estate separate from the strata below it, to receive support from lower strata can have the dignity of a fee simple estate in land. |
| www.law.pitt.edu /fox/property/CH03/3estate.htm (433 words) |
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