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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.
so written for appertenance. See Appertain.]
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.

Definition 2024


appurtenance

appurtenance

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appurtenance (plural appurtenances)

  1. An appendage added to something else.
  2. (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
  3. The thing to which another pertains.
  4. (law) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
  5. (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

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