Hypertext Webster Gateway: "appendant"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Appendant \Ap*pend"ant\, a. [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) 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Appendant \Ap*pend"ant\, n.
1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate
to it.

2. (Law) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior
inheritance.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

appendant
adj : affixed as an appendage


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