Appurtenance

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  • noun. Something associated with another, more important thing; an accessory. synonym: attachment.
  • noun. Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.
  • noun. A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act, state, or fact of appertaining.
  • noun. That which appertains or belongs to something else; something belonging to another thing as principal; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory: as, “appurtenances of majesty,”
  • noun. Specifically, in law, a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to a principal property, as a right of pasture in a common attached to an estate, outhouses, gardens, etc., attached to a mansion, and the like.
  • To furnish with by way of appurtenance; supply or equip.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An appendage added to something else.
  • noun. Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
  • noun. The thing to which another pertains.
  • noun. Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
  • noun. A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
  • noun. a supplementary component that improves capability
  • Word Usage
    "The term "appurtenance" shall not include any item that is temporarily affixed or attached to the exterior of a motor home or travel trailer by the owner of such motor home or travel trailer for the purposes of transporting from one location to another."
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