Ap-pūr'te-nance, n.

n. [So written for appertenance.] [O. Fr. apurtenuance, apurtenance, N. Fr. appartenance, L. Lat. appartementia. See APPERTAIN.] (Law.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill.