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Negative Easement

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One which consists in a prohibition upon the owner of the servient estate of some act which would be detrimental to the dominant estate.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One in which the owner of the servient tenement is by reason of the easement curtailed in the exercise of some of his rights, in respect of his lands in favor of the owner of the dominant tenement. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 683, note.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914