APPENDANT

appendant

(adjective) affixed as an appendage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

appendant (comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant)

attached as an appendage

annexed; concomitant

(legal) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc, which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.

Noun

appendant (plural appendants)

Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.

(legal) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

Source: Wiktionary


Ap*pend"ant, a. Etym: [F. appendant, p. pr. of appendre. See Append, v. t.]

1. Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

2. (Law)

Definition: Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

Ap*pend"ant, n.

1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

2. (Law)

Definition: A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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