DOMINANT TENEMENT

A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thence fn ours, relating to servitudes, meaning the I tenement or subject in favor of which the service is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude extends is called the "servient tenement." Wharton; Walker v. Clifford, 128 Ala. 67, 29 South. 588, 86 Am. St. Rep. 74; Dillman ·v. Hoffman, 38 Wis. J 572; Stevens v. Dennett, 51 N. H. 339.. [s. 395]