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tenement definition - legal

n

  1. Any building, structure, or house attached to the land.
  2. Any property held by freehold.
  3. A building used as a residence. See also tenement house.
dominant tenement
Property that carries with it the right to use part of an adjoining property.
servient tenement
Property that contains features used by occupier of adjoining property, as with an easement.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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