A tenement refers to a residential apartment building, often characterized by low-quality, run-down, and/or cramped living conditions.

The property that is burdened by an easement is called a “servient tenement” because the easement serves another parcel. The property that benefits from the easement is called the “adjoining ...

The property being accessed is the servient estate or servient tenement. An easement appurtenant should be recorded on the servient estate’s deed, and probably also on the dominant estate’s deed.

To illustrate: If a farmer who has an easement to reach his farm over a neighbor’s land builds a 50-house subdivision, the servient tenement owner can terminate that easement for excessive use.

The property that is burdened by an easement is called a "servient tenement" because the easement serves another parcel. The property that benefits from the easement is called the "adjoining ...

In an easement appurtenant, one property is called the servient tenement estate, while the other is called the dominant tenement estate. For this structure, the servient estate allows the easement.

See also 3 Tiffany on Real Property §803 (3d. ed. 2013) (use by the dominant tenement may not interfere unreasonably with the servient owner's rights and must be reasonably necessary and ...

As a general rule, the owner of the servient tenement is allowed to make free use of the land, as long as there is no unreasonable interference with the normal use of the easement by the servient ...

There is no dominant tenement, as there is with other easements. An easement in gross only involves a servient tenement that is burdened.