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servient estate

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dominant estate
Where a restriction on use of one piece of real property is imposed in order to confer a benefit upon the owner of another, the former is called the servient estate and the latter the dominant estate.For example, if ownership of one field confers upon its owner the easement or right to walk across the field of a neighbor in order to reach the highway, the field whose owner has that right is the dominant estate and that which may be crossed is the servient estate.
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In the specific case of easement values, another tool that can provide insights is a bargaining model, in which it is recognized that the grantee needing access to the servient estate also may be in a unique position to confer monetary benefits to that land's owner.
Expert testimony: regression analysis and other systematic ... by Colwell, Peter F.; Heller, John A.; Trefzger, Joseph W. / Appraisal Journal
212) Despite dicta that the rule might be different for 1875 Act lands, the Udall court affirmed the position that the location of a railroad right-of-way across a tract of public land of the United States does not separate the servient estate from the public domain with the result that title to the servient estate passes without express mention in a subsequent grant by the United States of the traversed tract.
The shifting sands of property rights, federal railroad grants, and ... by Wright, Danaya C. / Environmental Law
174) In this case, because the easement was created consensually, there is no fear that it will imperil the rights of the servient estate owner.
Of property and federalism by Bell, Abraham; Parchomovsky, Gideon / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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