servitudes

SERVITUDES, NATURAL, civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence 
of the nature of the soil. 
     2. By law the inferior heritages, are submitted in relation to the 
natural flow of waters, and the like, to the superior. An inferior field is, 
therefore, subject to the injury or prejudice which the situation of the 
ground, in its natural state, way cause it. 
    

SERVITUDES, personal. Those by which the property of a subject, in Scotland, 
is burdened in favor, not of a tenement, but of a person. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 
B. 2, t. 9, s. 23. Life rent is the only personal servitude there.