URBAN - Relating to a city; but in a
more general sense it signifies relating to houses.
All servitudes are established either for the use of
houses or for the use of lands. Those of the first kind
are called urban servitudes, whether the buildings to
which they are due be situated in the city or in the
country. Those of the second kind are called rural servitudes.
The principal kinds of urban servitudes are the following:
the right of support; that of drip; that of drain, or
of preventing the drain, that of view or of lights,
or of preventing the view or lights from being obstructed:
that of raising buildings or walls, or of preventing
them from being raised that of passage and that of drawing
water.
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