Servient Tenement Definition: The land which suffers or has the burden of an easement. Related Terms: Easement, Dominant Tenement, Tenement In the 2002 publication, Boundaries and Easements, by C. Sara (London: Sweet & Maxwell, p. 184), the author aptly defines a servient tenement as follows: "The property to which the easement relates and, in the case of positive easements, over which it physically runs, is known as the servient tenement because it is 'serving' the dominant tenement.... It is an essential characteristic of an easement that it does not place on the owner of the servient tenement any obligation to act." Categories & Topics: Real Estate and Tenancy Law Dictionary Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!