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APPUR'TENANCE, n. so written for appertenance. 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. The structure of the eye, and of its
appurtenances. | ||||||||