A term used in the civil Snd Scotch law, and thence in ours, relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude extends is called the “servient tenement” wharton; walker v. Clifford, 128 Ala. 67, 29 South. 588, 86 Am St. Rep. 74 ; Dillman v. Hoffman, 38 wis. 572; Stevens v. Dennett, 51 N. H. 339
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
