What is "dominant owner"

Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
--Macaulay.

Dominant estate or Dominant tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement.
--Bouvier.
--Wharton's Law Dict.

Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.