A few months ago, I blogged about how far up and down you own on your property. Today, I thought I would focus in on one of those: mining rights. In Ontario, whether you own the subsurface rights to your property depends on a lot of things. First, when the Crown first...
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High and low
A client recently asked me, out of curiosity, how high up and down she would own when her first home closed. Essentially, at common law, you own "up to the heavens and down to the centre of the earth". That being said, in many jurisdictions there are limits that have...