A dominant estate is the parcel of real property that has an easement over another piece of property (the servient estate). The type of easement involved is almost always an appurtenant easement. Likewise, it is almost always an affirmative easement, that is, one that permits a person to do something.Estate is a common law concept. A dominant esta...
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(from the article `servitude`) ...two or more parcels of land, one of which is burdened and the other benefited by the servitude. The burdened parcel is called the `servient ...
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n. Term used in real estate law to refer to the piece of property that the rights are retained to despite splitting off the majority of the property to another party. For example: retaining the rights to a driveway or utilities. The servient estate is the property that was sold off which has an easement. These are also referred to as dominant tenem...
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See: dominant tenement
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