What is APPURTENANT? Definition of APPURTENANT in Black's Law Dictionary
Belonging to; accessory or incident to; adjunct, appended, or annexed to; answering to accessorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note. McClintic-Marshall Co. v. Ford. Motor Co., 254 Mich. 305, 236 N.W. 792, 795; Being employed in leases for the purpose of including any easements or servitudes used or enjoyed with the demised premises. Riddle V. Littlefield, 53 N.H. 508, 16 Am.Rep. 388.
A thing is "appurtenant" to something else only whenit stands in relation of an incident to a principal, and is necessarily connected with the use and enjoyment of the latter. Catterall v. Pulis, 137 Okl. 86, 278 P. 292, 294.
A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, or water-course, or of a passage for light, air, or heat from or across the land of another. Mattix v. Swepston, 127 Tenn. 693, 155 S.W. 928, 930.
Land cannot be appurtenant to land. Hurley v. Liberty Lake Co., 112 Wash. 207, 192 P. 4, 5; except in case of land under water. In re Eastern Boulevard in Borough of the Bronx, City of New York, 243 N.Y.S. 57, 61, 230 App. Div. 52.
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