Servient

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Servient \Serv"i*ent\, a. [L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. See
     {Serve}.]
     Subordinate. [Obs. except in law.] --Dyer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Servient tenement} or {Servient estate} (Law), that on which


        the burden of a servitude or an easement is imposed. Cf.
        Dominant estate, under {Dominant}. --Gale & Whately.
        [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SERVIENT, civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a 
  servitude is due to another estate or tenement. See Dominant; Servitude.