A negative easement preventing an adjoining landowner from constructing a building that would prevent light or air from reaching the dominant estate. See negative easement. Cf. solar easement. [Cases: Easements 11, 19, 45. C.J.S. Easements §§ 51–52, 85–87, 151.]
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sub modo (s[schwa]b moh-doh). [Latin] Subject to conditions or qualifications (the riparian landowner enjoys the property sub modo, i.e., subject to the right of the public to reserve enough space for levees, public roads, and the like).
jactus lapilli (jak-t[schwa]s l[schwa]-pil-I). [Latin “the throwing down of a stone”] Roman law. A landowner’s throwing of a small stone onto a neighbor’s land to symbolically protest construction that could threaten the thrower’s interest. Cf. NOVI OPERIS NUNTIATIO.
freeman. 1. A person who possesses and enjoys all the civil and political rights belonging to the people under a free government. 2. A person who is not a slave. 3. Hist. A member of a municipal corporation (a city or borough) who possesses full civic rights, esp. the right to vote. 4. Hist. A