appurtenance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 59 U.S. 150 - Jones v. Johnston · 1855Most cited · 81 citing opinions
Coke's rule
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.
How often courts cite the case defining “appurtenance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “appurtenance” — 81 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.