Urban Servitudes

Servitudes attached to an urban estate, such as the right of support, of drip, of drain, etc. 3 Kent, Comm. 436. URBS (Lat.)

In civil law. A walled city. Often used for civitas. Ainsworth. It is the same as oppidum, only larger. Urbs, or urbs aurea, meant Rome. Du Cange. In the case of Rome, urbs included the suburbs. Dig. 50. 16. 2. pr. It is derived from urbum, a part of the plough by which the walls of a city are first marked out. Ainsworth. URE (Norman-French; from Lat. opera, a work). "Operation" or "effect." To put in ure, therefore, is to put in operation. See St. 13 Eliz. c. 2, § 1.

All servitudes are established either for the use of houses or for the use of lands. Those of the first kind are called urban servitudes, whether the buildings to which they are due be situated in the city or in the country. Those of the second kind are called rural servitudes. The principal kinds of urban servitudes are the following: the right of support; that of drip; that of drain, or of preventing the drain; that of view or lights, or of preventing the view or lights from being obstructed; that of raising buildings or walls, or of preventing them from being raised; that of passage; and that of drawing water. See 3 Toullier 441. URBS (Lat.). A walled city. Often used for civitas. Ainsworth, Diet. It is the same as oppidum, only larger. Urbs, or urbs aurea, meant Rome. Du Cange. In the case of Rome, urbs included the suburbs. Dig. 50. 16. 2. pr. It is derived from urbum, a part of the plough by which the walls of a city are first marked out. Ainsworth, Diet