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n. - The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).

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  • A floating easement is a right to go on property in New Orleans post-Katrina.
  • A wall must forever be built to give him easement from the high pitch, and Dede became a part of this wall.
  • Take for example the idea of easement by necessity.
  • The most recent term was floating easement, which is defined as:
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