A servient estate (or servient premises or servient tenement) is a parcel of land that is subject to an

easement An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the land of another, B". An easement is a propert ...

. The easement may be an easement in gross, an easement that benefits an individual or other entity, or it may be an easement appurtenant, an easement that benefits another parcel of land. For an easement appurtenant, the parcel of land that benefits from an easement over the servient estate is called the

dominant estate A dominant estate (or dominant premises or dominant tenement) is the parcel of real property that has an easement over another piece of property (the servient estate). The type of easement involved may be an appurtenant easement that benefits anoth ...

(or dominant premises or dominant tenement).

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