appendant

appendant (comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant)

1. attached as an appendage
2. annexed; concomitant

   a seal appendant to a paper

   • Jeremy Taylor

     As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.

3. (law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Coke to this entry?)

appendant (plural appendants)

1. Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
2. (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

appendant

1. present participle of appendre

appendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of appendō