appurtenance
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 59 U.S. 150 - Jones v. Johnston · 1855Most cited · 81 citing opinions
A thing corporeal cannot properly be appurtenant to a thing corporeal, nor a thing incorporeal to a thing incorporeal… according to this rule, land cannot be appurtenant to land… a mere easement may, without express words, pass as an incident to the principal object of the grant; but it would be absurd to allow the fee of one piece of land not mentioned in the deed to pass as appurtenant to another distinct parcel which is expressly granted by precise and definite boundaries.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage ; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way or other easement to land; an out-house, barn, garden. or orchard, to a house or messuage. Meek v. Breckenridge, 29 Ohio St. 642; Harris v. Elliott, 10 Pet. 54, 9 L. Ed. 333; Humphreys v. McKissock, 140 U. S. 304, 11 Sup. Ct 779, 35 In Ed. 473; Farmer v. Water Co., 56 Cal. 11. Appurtenances of a ship include whatever is on board a ship for the objects of the voyage and adventure in which she is engaged, belonging to her owner. Appurtenant is substantially the same in meaning as accessory, but it is more technically used in relation to property, and is the more appropriate word for a conveyance.