Word To Use Today: easement.

Easement is a legal term to do with rights to a neighbour's property.

There might be, for instance, a right to cross the neighbour's land, or to protect a view, or to allow workmen to maintain power supplies.

This means that it is possible for a lawyer to have a career entirely consisting of arranging gas easements.

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Word To Use Today: easement. The word easement also means to be made to be comfortable; a seat of easement is (well, used to be) a lavatory. 

The word ease was aise in Old French and meant ease or opportunity. It comes from the Latin adjacēns, neighbouring [property].