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Dominant Tenement

Used when referring to easements to specify that property (i.e. tenement) or piece of land that benefits from, or has the advantage of, an easement.

Adjacent or nearby property to which an easement is due.

The property recipient of the benefit of an easement.

Distinguished from the servient tenement; that property from which the benefit of an easement is due.

The phrase has perpetuated a term which is no longer in use elsewhere in land law: tenement.

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