Appurtenant

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Appertaining or belonging; pertaining; incident or relating to, as a legal right, interest, or property subsidiary to one more valuable or important.
  • noun. A thing appertaining to another more important thing; an appurtenance; a belonging.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.
  • adjective. Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident.
  • adjective. See under Common, n.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
  • adjective. Ancillary or subsidiary.
  • noun. An appendage or attachment.
  • noun. A type of easement benefiting real property that "runs with the land" as opposed to an interest belonging solely to the beneficiary.
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  • adjective. furnishing added support
  • Word Usage
    "States can possess "appurtenant" territory, subject to, but not part of itself, to which the Constitution does not apply save so far as Congress votes that it shall apply."
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