appendant

American  

[uh-pen-duhnt] / əˈpɛn dənt /

Or appendent

adjective

1. attached or suspended; annexed.

2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence.

   the salary appendant to a position.

3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added.

2. Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.

appendant British  

/ əˈpɛndənt /

adjective

1. attached, affixed, or added

2. attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result

3. a less common word for pendent

4. law relating to another right

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added

2. property law a subordinate right or interest, esp in or over land, attached to a greater interest and automatically passing with the sale of the latter

Other Word Forms

• appendance noun
• appendancy noun
• appendence noun
• appendency noun
• nonappendance noun
• nonappendant adjective
• nonappendence noun
• nonappendent adjective

Etymology

Origin of appendant

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English ap(p)endaunt, (in legal sense) from Anglo-French, present participle of apendre “to belong (to), befit,” from Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent to Latin ap- ap- ¹ + pendēre “to hang” (intransitive); later senses by association with append

Example Sentences

What is called in later law common appendant, appears as the normal adjunct to the holding, that is, to a share in the system of village husbandry.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Several smaller seats and whitened hamlets start up in the valley, and, glistening through their appendant groves, give life to the scene. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Question, 'Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

The buckles, &c. were likewise used by his descendants, in their great seals, as is evident from several of them appendant to old deeds.”

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

The following extract from Stow's Survey of London may serve to explain the appendant Bell.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various