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Urban Servitude

City servitudes, or servitudes of houses, are called "urban.” They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, for instance, the right to light and air, or the right to build a house so as to throw the rain-water on a neighbor’s house. Mosley & whitley; Civ. Code La. 1900, § 711

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)