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Servient

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Subject to a burden or servitude. In the law of easements, a tenement whose owner is, as such, subject to an easement enjoyed by an adjoining tenement is called a servient estate or tenement.