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easement

French aise, ease, relief; assistance, accomodation, convenience. A service or convenience which one neighbor has of another, by character or prescription, without profit. Pest v. Pearsall, . The right which one man has to use the land of another for a specific purpose. Jackson v. Trullinger, . The liberty, privilege, or advantage in land, without profit, distinct from an ownership in the soil. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corporation v. Chandler, . The essential qualities of easements are: they are incorporeal; they are imposed upon corporeal property; they confer no right to participation in profits arising from such property; there must be two distinct tenements, the dominant, to which the right belongs, and the servient, upon which the obligation rests. Pierce v. Keater,

Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)

Language : English

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