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Easement

A non-possessory right to use and/or enter onto the property of another without possessing it. They include a right of way (a path or road over private land which people are legally allowed to use), a right to light or a right to a flow of water. The land against which the easement or privilege exists is called the servient tenement, and the land to which it is annexed is the dominant tenement, and their owners are called respectively the servient and dominant owners.
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