Servitude
a state or condition of a serf, slave, or bondman; state of voluntary or involuntary subjection to a master or employer; service; slavery; bondage; position in life of a servant; hencer a state or condition of slavish or helpless dependence. In civil law, the right to the use of a thing, without property in the same, for all or for some particular purposes. It consists either in the right to do some act, as to gather fruit from the estate, or to prevent the owner of the property from doing certain acts, as building walls beyond a certain height, blocking up a window, etc.