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Servitudes

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Definition

Servitudes, burdens affecting property in Scotland; resembling easements in England.

An encumbrance consisting in a right to the limited use of a piece of land without possession of it; a charge or burden on an estate for another's benefit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1373.

In the Civil Law, certain portions of fragments of the right of ownership separated from the rest, and enjoyed by persons other than the owner of the thing itself. As to their various kinds, see Sand. Just.

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