OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 33594

easement

/ˈiːzm(ə)nt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
serventía • servidumbre
An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.
[page 1] That branch of these accessorial rights which confers merely a convenience to be exercised over the neighbouring land, without any participation in the profit of it, is ca…
alivio
The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayer…
[T]he lowest servants at Hampton Court used the great communal toilet capable of seating fourteen people at once named the ‘Common Jakes’ or the ‘Great House of Easement’. This gia…
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