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appendant
[ uh-pen-duhnt ]
adjective
- attached or suspended; annexed.
- associated as an accompaniment or consequence:
the salary appendant to a position.
- Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.
noun
- a person or thing attached or added.
- Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.
appendant
/ əˈpɛndənt /
adjective
- attached, affixed, or added
- attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result
- See pendenta less common word for pendent
- law relating to another right
noun
- a person or thing attached or added
- property law a subordinate right or interest, esp in or over land, attached to a greater interest and automatically passing with the sale of the latter
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Other Words From
- ap·pendance ap·pendan·cy ap·pendence ap·penden·cy noun
- nonap·pendance noun
- nonap·pendant adjective
- nonap·pendence noun
- nonap·pendent adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of appendant1
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Example Sentences
This island is fertile, variegated with hill and dale, and equally beautiful as diversified with Rotti, and its appendant isles.
Common appendant, common appurtenant, common in gross, and common par cause de vicinage.
Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first?
Question, 'Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'
A right of pasture attached to land in the way we have described is said to be appendant or appurtenant to such land.
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