servient tenant
The person who holds a servient estate and is therefore burdened by an easement. Cf. dominant tenant. [Cases: Easements 2. C.J.S. Easements §§ 6, 21, 53–55.]
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dominant tenant
The person who holds a dominant estate and therefore benefits from an easement. Cf. servient tenant. [Cases: Easements 2. C.J.S. Easements §§ 6, 21, 53–55.]
easement in gross
An easement benefiting a particular person and not a particular piece of land. • The beneficiary need not, and usu. does not, own any land adjoining the servient estate. Cf. easement appurtenant. [Cases: Easements 3. C.J.S. Easements §§ 4, 10–11, 20.]
servitude of drip
Louisiana law. A servitude appurtenant that binds the servient estate’s owner to maintain a roof so that rainwater does not drip or drain onto the dominant estate. La. Civ. Code art. 664. — Also termed servitude of drip and drain.