dominant tenement
nounLaw.
land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.
Origin of dominant tenement
1First recorded in 1870–75
- Also called dominant estate .
- Compare servient tenement.
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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
property law the land or tenement with the benefit of an easement over land belonging to another: Compare servient tenement
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