Your neighbors have an easement appurtenant over your driveway to access their garage. Your property is identified as what?

When considering the relationship between properties in the context of easements, it’s essential to understand the terms used to describe them. In this scenario, your property is identified as the servient tenement.

The servient tenement is the property that is burdened by the easement, meaning that the owner of the servient tenement (in this case, you) is obliged to allow the holder of the easement (your neighbors) to use a portion of the property for a specific purpose, which here is access to their garage via your driveway. This arrangement means that while you maintain ownership of your property, the easement grants your neighbors certain rights to use part of it.

In contrast, the dominant tenement would refer to your neighbors' property, which benefits from the easement. The other terms—leasehold interest and license property—are not applicable in this context. Leasehold interest pertains to a tenant's rights in a lease agreement, while a license is a temporary permission to use someone else's property, which doesn’t create an interest in the property itself like an easement does.