the land or tenement with the benefit of an easement over land belonging to another
Compare servient tenement
Examples of 'dominant tenement' in a sentence
dominant tenement
It might benefit the trade carried on upon the dominant tenement or the utility of living there.
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The main difficulty arose as an aspect of the necessary requirement of an easement that the right had to 'accommodate' the dominant tenement.
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Theoretically, the owner of the dominant tenement is not positively required to carry out repairs, but in practice he is.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Thus, an easement properly so called would improve the general utility of the dominant tenement.
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The essence of an easement was to give the dominant tenement a benefit or a utility as such.
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This is because if the pipe breaks and causes a flood, the landowner can sue the owner of the dominant tenement for the damage caused.
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The right provided the houses with gardens, albeit on a communal basis, and gardens were a typical feature serving and benefiting townhouses as dominant tenements.