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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 2. REAL OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY [[755.] - 945.5.]›TITLE 2. ESTATES IN REAL PROPERTY 761-817.4›CHAPTER 3. Servitudes 801-813

§ 801

California Civil Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

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.

(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1154.)

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