SERVITUS, civil law. A service or servitude; a burden imposed by law, or the 
agreement of parties upon certain persons, for the benefit of others; or 
upon one estate for the advantage of another, or for the benefit of another 
person than the owner. 

SERVITUS. Servitude; slavery; a state of bondage. "Servitus autem, est 
constitutio," say the Institutes of Justinian, 1, 3, 2, "qua quis dominio 
alieno contra naturam subjicitur." Servitude is a disposition of the law of 
nations, by which, against common right, one man has been subjected to the 
dominion of another. See Bract. 4 b; Co. Litt. 116.