What describes the parcel of land that must allow an adjacent owner to cross?

The term "servient tenement" describes a parcel of land that must allow an adjacent owner to cross. In property law, the servient tenement is the piece of land that is burdened by an easement, which grants another party the right to access or use that land in a specific way. This typically occurs when one property owner allows another to cross their land to reach a public road or another property, thus the servient tenement is the land that contains the easement.

On the other hand, the dominant tenement refers to the property that benefits from the easement, essentially the parcel that has the right to cross over the servient tenement. Abutting property refers to land that directly adjoins another, but it does not inherently include any rights to cross or utilize the abutting land. A right-of-way specifically pertains to the right allowing the access across the servient tenement but does not describe the land itself. Therefore, in this context, the correct choice accurately reflects the nature of the parcel of land that is required to allow access.