Ease'ment, n.

n. 1. That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. I certainly stand in need of every kind of relief and easement. Burke. 2. (Law.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage without profit, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water-course, &c. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.