Ap*pur"te*nance (&?;), n. [OF. apurtenaunce,
apartenance, F. appartenance, LL.
appartenentia, from L.
appertinere. See Appertain.] That
which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way,
or other easement to land; a right
of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as
an appurtenance to land. Tomlins.
Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances
to astronomy.
Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its
appurtenances.
Reid.
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