What is "servitudes"

Usage examples of "servitudes".

For servitudes, such as rights of way, light, and the like, form the chief class of prescriptive rights, and our law of servitudes is mainly Roman.

Papinian himself wrote that servitudes cannot be partially extinguished, because they are due from lands, not persons.

They may be called rights or liberties with regard to the tenements to which they are owed, but servitudes with regard to the tenements by which they are owed .

And, not to mention the wars which the conquering nations made against one another, as there was this peculiarity among the Franks, that the different partitions of the monarchy gave rise continually to civil wars between brothers or nephews, in which this law of nations was constantly practised, servitudes, of course, became more general in France than in other countries: and this is, I believe, one of the causes of the difference between our French laws and those of Italy and Spain, in respect to the right of seigniories.

Men labored everywhere in the various servitudes to which they were born, and chafed not more than usual in their bonds.

It is partiuclarly significant when one understands that the women know very well that if they fall inot the hands of the enemy, with their hair shorn, they may expect to be sold into low slaveries, such as agricultural servitudes or thos of the mills.

Entirely unfranchised from ancient servitudes, and passionately loving reason and clarity, he was an example as is a prophet inspired by truths of the future--of what may be realized in moral beauty and goodness by a free and upright spirit, of constant courage, and of a mental honesty which made him repulse what he did not understand, and place his life in accord with this dream.