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Definition: APPERTINENCE

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. An alternative spelling for "Appurtenance": 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Appertinence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: APPERTINENCE

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. An alternative spelling for "Appurtenance": 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "APPERTINENCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)