from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
EASEMENTS, estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or
advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit;
it may arise by deed or prescription. Vide 1 Serg. & Rawle 298; 5 Barn. &
Cr. 221; 3 Barn. & Cr. 339; 3 Bing. R. 118; 3 McCord, R. 131, 194; 2 McCord,
R. 451; 14 Mass. R. 49 3 Pick. R. 408.
2. This is an incorporeal hereditament, and corresponds nearly to the
servitudes or services of the civil law. Vide Lilly's Reg. h.t. 2 Bouv.
Inst. n. 1600, et seq.; 3 Kent, Com. 344: Cruise, Dig. t. 31, c. 1, s. 17; 2
Hill. Ab. c. 5; 9 Pick. R. 51; 1 Bail. R. 56; 5 Mass. R. 129; 4 McCord's R.
102; Whatl. on Eas. passim; and the article Servitude.