Pertica

PERTICATA, or PARTICATA (Law Lat. from pertica). In old Scotch law. A perch. Skene de Verb. Sign. PERTINENT (from Lat. pertineo, belonging to). Belonging to or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; opposite; material; relevant.

174 Mich. 351.

That which tends to prove or disprove the allegations of the parties.

Willes. 319.

Matters which have no such tendency are called "impertinent."

8 Toullier. Dr. Civ. note 22.

PERTINENTIAE (Law Lat. from pertir nere, to belong).

In old English law

Appurtenances, or, as anciently written, "appertinances;" in Scotch law, pertinents; things belonging or incident to another (principal) thing.

Reg. Orig. 1; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, § 11.

Appurtenances had sometimes their own appurtenances, called pertinentiae a tenement, were appurtenant the right of way, and free ingress and egress; habent hMJusmodi pertinentiae suas pertinentias, sicut ad jus pascendi et ad pasturam pertinent via et liber ingressus et egressus. Bracton, fol.

232.

See Fleta, lib.

4, c. 18, § 3.