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Definition of Appurtenance
1. Noun. Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc..
Generic synonyms: Equipment
Specialized synonyms: Fishing Gear, Fishing Rig, Fishing Tackle, Rig, Tackle, Kit, Outfit, Regalia, Rig, Rigging, Tackle, Saddlery, Stable Gear, Tack
2. Noun. A supplementary component that improves capability.
Specialized synonyms: Auto Accessory, Computer Accessory, Fitting, Fixings, Trimmings
Generic synonyms: Component, Constituent, Element
Derivative terms: Accessorial, Accessory, Add On, Appertain, Appurtenant, Supplement, Supplemental, Supplementary
Definition of Appurtenance
1. n. 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.
Definition of Appurtenance
1. Noun. An appendage added to something else. ¹
2. Noun. (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear. ¹
3. Noun. The thing to which another pertains. ¹
4. Noun. (legal) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold. ¹
5. Noun. (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appurtenance
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Medical Definition of Appurtenance
1. 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. "Globes . . . Provided as appurtenances to astronomy." (Bacon) "The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances." (Reid) Origin: OF. Apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. Appartenance, LL. Appartenentia, from L. Appertinere. See Appertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appurtenance
Literary usage of Appurtenance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"C. appurtenance. 550. Whether the water-right is an appurtenance to land. 551.
Same. 552. Whether passes on sale of land when appurtenant thereto. 553. ..."
2. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"A right to divert and conduct to a mill water for use in the reduction of ore is
an appurtenance to the mill site, and not to the mine, from which the ore ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"As will be noticed the proviso does not state what "land irrigated," nor does it
attempt to make the water an inseparable appurtenance to any land. ..."
4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"Foss, 4 SD 203, 56 NW 120, holding the elevator constituted a distinct bidding,
though attached to the mill and was not an appurtenance to it; Lee v. ..."
5. Mining Rights on the Public Domain: Lode and Placer Claims, Tunnels, Mill by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1905)
"It has been held that the grant of a tunnel right carries with it as an appurtenance
the right to dump on the grantor's land at the mouth of the tunnel. ..."
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