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Appertinances

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

An old form of appurtenances (g. V.) Cowell. APPLICARE (Lat.) In old English law. To fasten to; to moor (a vessel). Anciently rendered, "to apply." Hale de Jure Mar. par.

2, c. 3.

This sense of the word seems to have been derived from the civil law.

Dig. 1. 8..5.