Appendant Definition

ə-pĕndənt
adjective
Affixed as an appendage.
American Heritage
Attached or added as an appendage.
Webster's New World
Accompanying; attendant.
Faith and its appendant hope.
American Heritage
Associated with as a consequence.
Webster's New World
Belonging to a land grant as a subsidiary right in English law.
American Heritage
noun
An appendage.
Webster's New World
A subsidiary right attached to and passing with a major one.
Webster's New World

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

Wiktionary

(law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Appendant

Noun

Singular:
appendant
Plural:
appendants

Appendant Sentence Examples

  • They are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments, and are either appendant or in gross.

  • A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross - that is, a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant - must be specially conveyed by deed of grant.

  • Advowsons are divided into two kinds, appendant and in gross.

  • Consequently where the right of patronage (the right of the patron to present to the bishop the person whom he has nominated to become rector or vicar of the parish to the benefice of which he claims the right of advowson) remains attached to the manor, it is called an advowson appendant, and passes with the estate by inheritance The distinction between nomination to a living and presentation is to be noted.

  • An advowson may also be partly appendant, and partly in gross, e.g.

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Words Starting With

AAPAPP

Words Ending With

TNTANT

Unscrambles

appendant

Words Starting With A and Ending With T

Starts With A & Ends With TStarts With AP & Ends With TStarts With A & Ends With NT

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With A9 Letter Words Ending With T