SERVITUS TIGNI IMMITTENDI

civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in requiring him who owes it, to permit his neighbor to place his joists on his wall. It differs from the servitude Oneris ferendi. in this, that in the former the owner of the servient building is bound to repair and rebuild the wall; whereas, in the latter he is not. … [Read more...] about SERVITUS TIGNI IMMITTENDI

civil law. The name of a servitude which obliges the owner of an estate to receive, or his right to turn aside, the droppings or stream from his neighbor's house. … [Read more...] about SERVITUS STILLICLDII

civil law. The name of a servitude by which an obligation is imposed on the owner of a house to allow windows or lights to be put in his wall by the owner of the adjoining house. … [Read more...] about SERVITUS LUMINUM

(A) civil law. A service or servitude; a burden imposed by law, or the agreement of parties upon certain persons, for the benefit of others; or upon one estate for the advantage of another, or for the benefit of another person than the owner. (B) Servitude; slavery; a state of bondage. Servitus autem, est constitutio, say the Institutes of Justinian, 1, 3, 2, qua quis dominio … [Read more...] about SERVITUS

personal. Those by which the property of a subject, in Scotland, is burdened in favor, not of a tenement, but of a person. Life rent is the only personal servitude there. … [Read more...] about SERVITUDES