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Dominant Tenement

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thende in ours, relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude extends is calied the "servient tenement."

Wharton; Walker v. Clifford, 128 Ala. 67, 29 South. 588, 86 Am, St. Rep. 74, Diliman v. Hoffman, 38 Wis. 572; Stevens v. Dennett, 51 N. H. 339.