Lateral Support Clause Samples
A Lateral Support clause establishes the obligation of a property owner to maintain the physical support of neighboring land or structures, preventing their collapse or subsidence due to excavation or construction activities. In practice, this means that if a landowner undertakes work that could affect the stability of adjacent properties—such as digging a basement or removing soil—they must take necessary precautions to avoid causing damage. The core function of this clause is to allocate responsibility and prevent disputes by ensuring that property modifications do not negatively impact neighboring land, thereby protecting property values and structural integrity.
Lateral Support. Every portion of the Common Area, every Lot, and any improvement which contributes to the lateral support of another portion of the Common Area or of another Lot shall be burdened with an easement for lateral support, and each shall also have the right to lateral support which shall be appurtenant to and pass with title to such Property.
Lateral Support. Grantee shall have and exercise the right of subjacent and lateral support for Windpower Facilities on the Property to whatever extent is necessary for the safe construction, operation and maintenance of Windpower Facilities. Owner expressly covenants that Owner shall not excavate so near the sides of or underneath the Windpower Facilities as to undermine or otherwise adversely affect their stability. (Comment: Since transmission lines will be located on the Property, Owner’s ability to use the surface will be impaired along or near facility locations of Grantee.)
Lateral Support. Based on the analysis and other design work, the following support elements (Figure 6) were recommended: • Wetcrete with a compressive strength of 30 MPa and minimum thickness of 75 mm; • Weldmesh with wire diameter of 4 mm and aperture size of 150 mm; • Fully bonded grouted dowels with an ultimate tensile strength of 14 tonnes at a 1.5 by 1.5 m spacing; • 20 m long cable anchors tensioned to 40 tonnes at a 5 m by 7 m spacing. The fixed end was 5 m long leaving 15 m free for tensioning which was grouted after some time. Provision had to be made to decrease the spacing to 5 m by 5 m for 30 % of the time as well as for 30 % of the anchors to have a 40 m length as required. During mining it became necessary to install 40 m anchors near the collar elevation to prevent a kinematic mechanism developing beneath the hoist platform. The actual anchor system used had to be varied several times during mining due to difficulties sourcing the required wire rope but the total support effort remained constant. Difficulties were also experienced with a fully grouted fixed end as this caused delays to the mining schedule. Experiments with mechanical expansion shells were only partly successful as they failed to grip in some instances. Doubts were also expressed about their reliability due to the generally low confinement of the rock mass near surface.