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Urban servitude

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Any servitude appropriate to a city estate.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

City servitudes or servitudes of houses, are called "urban." They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, for instance, the right to light and air or the right to build a house so as to throw the rain-water on a neighbor's house. Mozley & Whitley; Civ. Code La. 1900, § 711.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In the civil law. A servitude annexed to an urbam estate, or prcedium urbanum.