Appendant

Quick meaning: Appendant is an adjective meaning Attached as an appendage.

Meaning

Attached as an appendage.

More Meanings

1. Annexed; concomitant.
2. Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
3. (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
4. (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.

Example Sentences

a seal appendant to a paper

As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.

If A. be ſeiſed of a mannor whereunto the franchiſe of waife and ſtray and ſuch like are appendant, and the King purchaſeth the mannor with the appurtenances, now are the royall Franchiſes reunited to the Crowne, and not appendant to the Mannor, […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for appendant

Depending on context, synonyms include affixed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affixed, adjunct, supplemental, adducent, ancillary, periappendicular.

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