Easement

[L. Lat. aisiamentum, aysiamentum, from Fr. aisS, a convenience.] A liberty, privilege or advantage in land, without profit, existing distmct from an ownership of the soil.

Prentiss, C. J., 8 Vermont R. 279. 1 Crabb's Real Prop. 125, § 115.

The right to use a public highway is a public easement.

Swift, J., 1 Connecticut R. 103, 132.

2 Smith's Leading Cas. 98. (Am. ed. note.) A private easement is a privilege, service, or convenience, which one neighbor has of another, b^ prescription, grant or necessary implication, and without profit; as a way over his land, a gateway, water course, and the like.

Kitch. 105. 3 Cruin Dig. 484.

Otherwise defined as "a right of accommodation in another's land;" " a right which one man has to use the land of another for a special purpose."

Burton's Real Prop. 361. pi. 1165. 3 Kent's Com. 434.

A species of what the civil law terms servitudes {servitudines,) Inst, 2.

3.

Olanv. lib.

12, c. 14.

Bract, fol.

220 b, lib. 4, tr. 1, c. 37.

See Aisiamentum, Servitude. See Gale dt Whatley on Easements, per tot.