dominant tenement

American  

noun

Law.

1. land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.

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dominant tenement British  

noun

1. property law the land or tenement with the benefit of an easement over land belonging to another Compare servient tenement

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Etymology

Origin of dominant tenement

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

There be books we have seen printed, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, in which the text was so shingled over with layers of notes, or the notes were so underpinned by a slight propping of text, that it was difficult to say, in the language of Easements, which was the servient and which the dominant tenement.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence, to test the existence of a mere possession of this sort which the law will protect, we will take the case of a way used de facto for four years, but in which no easement has yet been acquired, and ask whether the possessor of the quasi dominant tenement would be protected in his use as against third persons.

From Project Gutenberg