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Easement   /ˈizmənt/   Listen
Easement

noun
1.
(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).
2.
The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance).  Synonyms: alleviation, easing, relief.



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"Easement" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a year and a day. Thirdly, the use of the soil, for various specified purposes, resided in the inhabitants of certain townships or hundreds, was appendant to certain tenements, or was reserved as easement on the sale of ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... once in a while, play fair occasionally. But Pilot has fought us every inch of the way since the day we first struck a pick into it. It is savage and unrelenting. I'd rather negotiate with Sitting Bull for a right of way through his private bathroom than to ask an easement from Pilot for a tamarack tie. I don't know why it was ever called Pilot: if I named it, it should be Sitting Bull. What the Sioux were to the white men, what the Spider Water is to the bridgemen, that, and more, Pilot has been to ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

... light, they ease themselves into that pit, after which they put the earth that was dug out again into the pit; and even this they do only in the more lonely places, which they choose out for this purpose; and although this easement of the body be natural, yet it is a rule with them to wash themselves after it, as if it were ...
— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus

... held, a delicious pain. He was ever seeking easement, and when he found that for which he sought, he died. Love denied was Love alive; Love granted was Love deceased. Do you follow me? They saw it was not the way of life to be hungry for what it has. To eat ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London

... abutments, piers, superstructures, and approach of an additional viaduct or bridge over the Sunnyside Yard, to have a roadway not more than 60 ft. wide and two sidewalks each 10 ft. wide, and to grant the City of New York a perpetual easement for the continuance of the same in the location upon which ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • Charles W. Raymond

... shrubbery. I am told that you wish to keep this Bovillae estate. You will determine as you think good. Calvus said that, even if the control of the water were taken from you, and the right of drawing it off were established by the vendor, and thus an easement were imposed on that property, we could yet maintain the price in case we wish to sell. He said that he had agreed with you to do the work at three sesterces a foot, and that he had stepped it, and made it three miles. It ...
— Letters of Cicero • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... years we sold the carpenter's box on Sacramento Street, and removed to a larger house near Harvard Square, and in the immediate neighborhood of Longfellow. He gave me an easement across that old garden behind his house, through an opening in the high board fence which enclosed it, and I saw him oftener than ever, though the meetings of the Dante Club had come to an end. At ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... EASEMENT is the relinquishment of some accommodation or right in another's land, such as right of way, free access of light and air, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Easement" :   step-down, palliation, spasmolysis, exclusive right, right of way, diminution, prerogative, law, liberalization, perquisite, privilege, jurisprudence, liberalisation, detente, public easement, relaxation, decrease, decompression, reduction, easing, decompressing, ease



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