| Question | Answer |
| Easement | a right to cross or otherwise use someone else's land for a specified purpose. |
| Easement appurtenant | easement that benefits one parcel of land, known as the dominant tenement, to the detriment of another parcel of land, known as the servient tenement |
| Easement in gross | a legal right to use another person's land for as long as the owner owns that land or the holder of the easement dies |
| dominant tenement | The property (i.e. tenement) or piece of land that benefits from, or has the advantage of, an easement |
| servient tenement | the land or tenement over which an easement or other encumbrance is exercised by the dominant tenement. |
| Reservation | a provision in a deed creating some new servitude which did not exist before as an independent interest |
| Exception | a provision in a deed that excludes from the grant some preexisting servitude on the land |
| License | oral or written permission given by the occupant of land allowing the licensee to do some act that otherwise would be a trespass |
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