2. Noun. equipment used for a specific task or purpose; gear ¹
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Definition of Appurtenances
1. appurtenance [n] - See also: appurtenance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appurtenances
Literary usage of Appurtenances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"appurtenances—Sale of water rights with land when specifically mentioned. 11007.
Water rights—appurtenances—Intent of the parties as affecting sale of—Terms ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... «aid. with the appurtenances, in form aforesaid, &c. л i whereupon he Ho. \f.
saith, that he himself was seised of the tenements aforesaid ivith the ..."
3. Genealogical Gleanings in England by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society (1888)
"... three messuages with the appurtenances in the parish of S' Olave alias S' ...
Harvey & Johan his wife defore, for one messuage with the appurtenances in ..."
4. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"As a general rule, a grant of land carries with it as appurtenances all ...
A grant of a mill with appurtenances covers the head of water by which it runs, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property by James Schouler (1896)
"The Same Subject; what appurtenances pass under Instruments of Transfer. — What
are the appurtenances of a ship, how much passes by the word " ship," or the ..."
6. Britton: An English Translation and Notes by Francis Morgan Nichols (1901)
"It should lie known that some appurtenances are free, others servile ; free as
in respect of the '"'persons and tenements to which they are due ..."
7. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, and on Pleading: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1837)
"(tenue) aforesaid, died so seised of the said reversion of and in the said demised
tenements, with the appurtenances as aforesaid, whereupon and whereby the ..."
8. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"the railroad, fixtures and appurtenances "from taxation for ten years after the
completion of said road," did not relieve the old corporation from taxation ..."
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