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Dominant Tenement

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Dominant tenement, a term used in the civil law, and thence in ours, and also in Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements

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