The fact that many theorists now operate with the term of servitude for the qualification of certainfacts, the events on the international arena requires the avoidance of the arbitrary use of this term, which until the last century was seen as a pure concept of Private Law. The main goal of this article is to elucidate the legal content of this institution of law, and to achieve a systemic approach, especially to detect the correlation between the following terms: servitude, state territory, state sovereignty and territorial sovereignty. Also, we aim to provide answers to the following points: automatic transmission of aservitude from one state to another; types of international servitude, expectations of the institution of international servitude on the contemporary stage.