Pertica
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.