Dominant Tenement
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In civil and Scotch law. A term used in the constitution of servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the servitude is constituted. Bell, Diet. DOM IN ATI 0.
In old English law. Lordship. Mem. in Scacc. H. 22 Edw. I.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The one which benefits by a servitude attached to it. See 128 Ala. 67, 86 Am. St. Rep. 74, 29 South. 588.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In civil and Scots law. A tenement in favor of which a servitude is constituted.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
That which enjoys a servitude, distmct from the servient tenement, which suffers it.