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appendant


  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  appendant 
  adj  :  affixed  as  an  appendage 




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