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Webster 1913 Edition
Appurtenance
Ap-pur′te-nance
,Noun.
[OF.
apurtenaunce
, apartenance
, F. appartenance
, LL. appartenentia
, from L. appertinere
. See Appertain
.] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
Tomlins.
Bouvier.
Burrill.
Globes . . . provided as
appurtenances
to astronomy. Bacon.
The structure of the eye, and of its
appurtenances
. Reid.
Webster 1828 Edition
Appurtenance
APPUR'TENANCE
,Noun.
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage. Appropriately, such buildings, rights and improvements, as belong to land, are called the appurtenances; as small buildings are the appurtenances of a mansion.