Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude. Servient tenement. An estate in respect of which a service is owing, as the dominant tenement is that to which the service is due. Servile est expilationis crimen; sola innocentia libera. 2 Inst. 573. The crime of theft la slavish; innocence alone is free. Sorvitia personalia sequuntur personam. 2 Inst 374; Personal services follow the person.