dominant tenement


nounLaw.
  1. land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.

Origin of dominant tenement

1
First recorded in 1870–75
  • Also called dominant estate .

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How to use dominant tenement in a sentence

  • The dominant estate was never "erected into a legal person," either by conscious fiction or as a result of primitive beliefs.

    The Common Law | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

British Dictionary definitions for dominant tenement

dominant tenement

noun
  1. property law the land or tenement with the benefit of an easement over land belonging to another: Compare servient tenement

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