Who "owns" the fruit produced on your property?

Question

Single family residence, large lot, with three mature mango trees.  During late spring and early summer probably drops 50 mangoes a day for two months.

Some of them claimed by raccoons, squirrels, possums and birds.

Who owns the rest?

Landlord?  Tenant?

Nothing explicit on the lease.

Landlord does pay for lawn maintenance.  I let the lawn guy take the coconuts from the five palms.

Personally I don't care either way, there is enough for everyone, and left over for neighbors times 3.  Just thought this may be an interesting discussion.

Andrea M. · Answer

I would assume the owner of the property , even though the tenant has sole use of the property.

Account Closed · Answer

Curtilage ,I looked that one up.

I always thought that the fruit went to the tenant

And know of one time over a grove of paper shell pecans that had a rental on it they ended up fencing off the yard

Richard C. · Answer

Generally a SFR tenant gets exclusive use of the building and curtilage. Unless your lease specifically provides otherwise.

Dawn Anastasi · Answer

I had a rental that had blackberry bushes on it.  Very yummy blackberries.  I wasn't going to go there every day to gather the blackberries obviously so I let the tenant know they were there and safe to eat.

James Wise · Answer

In this situation I would assume tenant.

Jon Holdman · Answer

Explicitly addressed in my lease and in leases I've signed when I rented houses.  The tenant get anything produced on the land.