appurtenant

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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.

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  1. Appertaining or belonging; pertaining; incident or relating to, as a legal right, interest, or property subsidiary to one more valuable or important. Right of way … appurtenant to land. Blackstone, Commentaries, ii. 3. A part [of land common to a tribe] is allotted in a special way to the chief, as appurtenant to his office, and descends from chief to chief according to a special rule of succession. Edinburgh Rev.
  2. Common appurtenant. See common, n.
  3. A thing appertaining to another more important thing; an appurtenance; a belonging.

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  • • Adopt Resolution No. 6818 declaring the necessity to appropriate interests in real property for use by the city for the location, construction, operation and maintenance of a public sanitary sewer pump station, sanitary sewer main and equipment and facilities appurtenant thereto, and authorizing a survey and description of the land to be condemned. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • All required off-street parking spaces and their appurtenant aisles and driveways (size of space and aisles) shall be provided on the same lot as the use for which the parking is provided. —  The Times Today's News
  • Therefore, the surrogate concluded, the donor's "petition to adopt Sebastian is ... granted, and, as a matter of law, in addition to her own genetic and loving connection, she is accorded all the rights and responsibilities appurtenant to the relationship of parent to her son." —  Law.com - Newswire
  • There should be a building or a land appurtenant there to. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Slide 9: Section 22 (Charging Section)  "The Annual Value (likely reasonable rental value) of building or land appurtenant thereto is chargeable to tax in the hands of the owner provided the same is not used for own business or profession". —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Also written, less commonly, appertinent; from Middle English appertenant, apertinent, appurtenaunt, apurtenant, etc., from Old French apertenant, apartenant, from Late Latin appertinen(t-)s, present participle of appertinere, belong to, appertain: see appertain and -ant, and cf. appurtenance.
 

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