DI. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which cousists in the right to build a projection, such us a balcony or galiery, from one’s bouse in the open space belonging to one’s neighbor, but without resting on his house. Dig. 50, 16, 242; Id. 8, 2, 2; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 317
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
