appendant

American  

[uh-pen-duhnt] / əˈpɛn dənt /

Or appendent

adjective

1. attached or suspended; annexed.

2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence.

   the salary appendant to a position.

3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added.

2. Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.

appendant British  

/ əˈpɛndənt /

adjective

1. attached, affixed, or added

2. attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result

3. a less common word for pendent

4. law relating to another right

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added

2. property law a subordinate right or interest, esp in or over land, attached to a greater interest and automatically passing with the sale of the latter

Other Word Forms

• appendance noun
• appendancy noun
• appendence noun
• appendency noun
• nonappendance noun
• nonappendant adjective
• nonappendence noun
• nonappendent adjective

Etymology

Origin of appendant

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English ap(p)endaunt, (in legal sense) from Anglo-French, present participle of apendre “to belong (to), befit,” from Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent to Latin ap- ap- ¹ + pendēre “to hang” (intransitive); later senses by association with append

Example Sentences

The desire of male heirs is not appendant only to feudal tenures.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

And for this reason the laxer right had to conform to the stricter one, and came to be considered as appendant to it.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Or again, why are the goats or the swine of a tenement sent to pasture by virtue of common appurtenant, and the cows and horses by virtue of common appendant?

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

While chancellor and treasurer, instead of the usual presents and new-year's gifts appendant to his office, he chose to receive those perquisites in books.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Thirdly, the use of the soil, for various specified purposes, resided in the inhabitants of certain townships or hundreds, was appendant to certain tenements, or was reserved as easement on the sale of the land.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)