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Servient

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

In civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by or in respect of which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement. See "Easement." SERVILE EST EXPILATIONIS CRIMEN; sola Innocentia libera. The crime of theft Is slavish; innocence alone is free. 2 Inst. 573. SERVITIA PERSONALIA SEQUUNTUR personam. Personal services follow the per^ son. 2 Inst. 374; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 11, § 1.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Civil Law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by or in respect of which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude.

Servient tenement. An estate in respect of which a service is owing, as the dominant tenement is that to which the service ls due.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Serving; subject to a service or servitude.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

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.