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
See Easement.
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.