Definitions
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.
- n. A thing appertaining to another more important thing; an appurtenance; a belonging.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
- adj. Ancillary or subsidiary.
- n. An appendage or attachment.
- n. law A type of easement benefiting real property that "runs with the land" as opposed to an interest belonging solely to the beneficiary.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident.
- n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. furnishing added support
Examples
“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.”
“This complicates the due diligence process as small buildings often have unique features and amenities that are appurtenant to specific apartments.”
The Huffington Post: Ron Gitter: When Bigger Isn't Better: Purchasing in a Small Co-op or Condo
“Section 8 of Article I shall be strictly construed and limited to regulation direct interstate commerce, and the instrumentalities directly appurtenant thereto.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
“Meanwhile a panoply of appurtenant structures took shape around the gorge.”
“Suddenly, and without prior notice or warning, there did occur upon the unimproved real property adjacent and appurtenant to said House, i.e., the lawn, a certain disruption of unknown nature, cause and/or circumstance.”
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“U.S.C. '7 (9) defines the term "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States" to include residences in foreign States and the land appurtenant or ancillary thereto, irrespective of ownership, used for purposes of United States Government missions or entities or used by United States personnel assigned to those missions or entities.”
“True, it makes me laugh all the time for any or no reason, but I AM laughing instead of wallowing in the grim realities appurtenant to the dissolution of a great global empire.”
“Quoting an earlier court decision, Senior Judge John T.K. Kelly wrote that "stepparents who have held a child out as their own are liable for support; biological parents who have exercised the rights appurtenant to that status can be no less bound.”
“And you teach religion clause law, too, so maybe we should check off the cases in and appurtenant to that area that are going to fall with a net gain in liberal votes on the court.”
“The land appurtenant to the Brooklyn Bridge is mine.”
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