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Servient, adj. [e.m.E. seruient (c1615); L. servient-, pres. p. stem of servīre to serve.] Subject to the terms or conditions of a servitude (Servitud(e n. 3): a. Of a land or tenement. b. Of persons tenanting such land. —a. 1681 Stair Inst. ii vii § 6 (1981) 455.
The servitude of support, whereby the servient tenement is liable to bear any burden for the use of the dominant 1681 Stair Inst. ii vii § 12 (1981) 459.
A water-gang is a servitude of conveying water through the servient ground for the use of the dominant 1687 Fountainhall Decis. I 486.
Finding no constitution of it, either in the character of the dominant or servient tenements —b. 1565 Edinb. Univ. MS La.iii.388a, fol. 20a.
Nather may the defendar … be hard to give in ony vtheris defensis bot alanerlie exceptionis aganis the witnesis as affinite consanguinitie seruient tenendrie and siclyke