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Appellor

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A criminal who accuses his accomplices; one who challenges a jury. APPELLO UR (Law Fr.) In old practice. The party who brought an appeal; the plaintiff in an appeal. Britt. c.

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APPENDANT (Lat. ad, to, pendere, to hang). Annexed or belonging to something superior; an incorporeal inheritance belonging to another inheritance. Appendant in deeds includes nothing which is substantial corporeal property, capable of passing by feoffment and livery of seisin.

Co. Litt. 121; 4 Coke, 86; 8 Barn. & C. 150; 6 Bing. 150.

A matter appendant must arise by prescription, while a matter appurtenant may be created at any time.

2 Viner, Abr. 594; 3 Kent, Comm. 404.

APPENDITIA (Lat. appendere, to hang at or on). The appendages or pertinances of an estate; the appurtenances to a dwelling, etc.; thus, penthouses are the appendix tia domus.